"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows." Alice Walker Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconsious. Using multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, Dr. Estes helps women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype. Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Politics & Social Sciences

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Social Sciences

Ballantine Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul. Praise for Women Who Run with the Wolves “Women Who Run with the Wolves isn’t just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows.”—Alice Walker “I am grateful to Women Who Run with the Wolves and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book.”—Maya Angelou “An inspiring book, the ‘vitamins for the soul’ [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Stands out from the pack . . . a joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift.”—Los Angeles Times “A mesmerizing voice . . . dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts.”—Newsweek “The work of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, rooted in old and deep family rites and in archetypal psychology, recognizes that the soul is not lost, but has been put to sleep. This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Myths and stories of the wild woman archetype. A complimentary guide, specially prepared by the author.

The Reader's Companion to Women Who Run With the Wolves

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

"A deeply spiritual book...She honors what is tough, smart, and untamed in women. She venerates the female soul." --The Washington Post Book World Mujeres que corren con los lobos is the first Spanish-language edition available in North America of the epoch-making Women Who Run with the Wolves. In its English-language version, this amazingly influential and luminous bestseller has touched the souls of millions of women, and men, with its exploration of what may be the most powerful of archetypes, the Wild Woman. With a unique vision and intelligence, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés tells and examines a rich intercultural mix of myths, fairy tales, and stories--familiar traditional tales, her own and those of her families' elders. She has hit a well-spring of feminine instinct, creativity, and power that washes over every woman throughout the world. An important edition to the Vintage Español list, Mujeres que corren con los lobos is sure to be a major success in the Spanish-speaking American market.

Mujeres que Corren con los Lobos: Mitos y Cuentos del Arquetipo de la Mujer Salvaje (Spanish Edition)

Vintage Espanol

The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What Is Enough

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Rider&Co

Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and The Unmothered Child

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Sounds True Recordings

With words that weave in and out of the interior and exterior worlds, Dr. Estes creates an amazing fabric of the purest wisdom--fought for, won and preserved to teach all generations. Listeners will hear over 40 original poems, archetypal insights, and dozens of strengthening stories from Dr. Estes's own family oral traditions.

Theatre of the Imagination: Volume Two

SOUNDS TRUE.

First published three years before the print edition of Women Who Run With the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground bestseller. For its insights into the inner life of women, it established Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés as one of the most important voices of our time in the fields of Jungian psychology, myth, and women's mysteries. 
Drawing from her work as a psychoanalyst and cantadora ("keeper of the old stories"), Dr. Estés uses myths and folktales to illustrate how societies systematically strip away the feminine spirit. Through an exploration into the nature of the wild woman archetype, Dr. Estés helps listeners rediscover and free their own wild nature. 
The magical storytelling, myths, and commentary on Women Who Run With the Wolves continue to inspire a new level of self-knowledge among listeners young and old.
Note: These CD-ROM-format enhanced CDs contain audio, music, and video clips and are meant to be played on your computer, using an Internet connection, speakers, and Real Player programs, which are free for download. Enhanced content is exclusive to CD version

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Part Two of Her Masterwork on the Dangerous Old Woman
“Dear brave souls, I warmly invite you to come be at the fireside with me and the Dangerous Old Woman and the Power of the Crone. Who is the crone? She is the most dangerous, the most radical, the most revolutionary woman in existence. Whether in fairy tales or in consensual reality, the old one goes where she wants to and she acts as she wishes; she lives as she chooses. And this is all as it should be. And no one can stop her. Nor ought they try.”―Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
When Does Wisdom Come?
Entering the terrain of wisdom occurs at any age. We sometimes step, sometimes stumble, and other times are pulled into the territory of the Crone when the need for a deeper, larger understanding of our most meaningful paths in life can no longer be denied, and when the gifts that are hidden in our challenges must be brought forth. 
On The Power of the Crone, Dr. Estés presents volume two of the Dangerous Old Woman, with six sessions of original stories, psychological commentary, and blessings. Join her to meet Las Cacareas (The Old Cacklers), La Misteria (The Seer), La Arbolaria (The Spellbreaker), and the wisdom-wielding Crone in many more of her guises.
Fulfilling the Callings of Soul
Says Dr. Estés: “If you weep, the Crone will move closer to you. Laugh, and she wants to hear the joke. Dance, and she wants to dance with you and in you. She has help for the hurt and for the one poisoned by bitterness. She can pull the thorn from the breast, and tattoo your scars with flowering boughs.” This is the power of the Crone, ready to assist each of us to “fulfill the callings of the souls on this earth―with verve, with style, with critical insights, with wisdom, and with love.”
Stories, Poems, and Blessings Include:
“The Littlest Giantess” • “The Orcharder Who Tried to Deform the Trees” • “Backwoods Woman … When the Old Woman Comes to Shake You Awake” • “Don’t Make Creator Too Small” • “The 13 Phases of the Cycle of Life-Death-Life” • “The Unrepentant Trees” • “El Mano and the Monster” • “When ‘The Great They’ Say ‘Stop Acting Up’” • “The Girl Who Had No Story” • “The Checker-Barked Cherry Tree” • “Jack and the Beanstalk” • “The Sitar Player” • “The Rhymer’s Advice” • “Father Bring Me Fire” • “Gratitude Is an Emotion of the Heart”

The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

The Reader's Companion to Women Who Run With the Wolves

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Mujeres que Corren con los Lobos: Mitos y Cuentos del Arquetipo de la Mujer Salvaje (Spanish Edition)

The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What Is Enough

Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and The Unmothered Child

Theatre of the Imagination: Volume Two

Women Who Run with the Wolves

The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype