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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and stories of the wild woman archetype

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The Wild Woman's archetype manifestation is an endangered aspect in our psyche. The chauvinistic/psychopathic societies we live in, are designed to strangle this feminine aspect as to deprive women from their instinctual nature to resist, to fight back and to overcome. Women are to be kept subservient. But despite the predators from outside, a woman's worst predator is that of her inner landscape, born of the suppression from outside.

And that is why Estes book is of vital importance to each and every woman on this planet: through excellent writing, the use of stories and a profound insight into the feminine realm, she offers us the means and ways to understand the inner and outer restrictions on our instinctual selfs, and a map out to freedom, the key to unlock the chains that hold the Wild Woman captive.

A must read!

I own the hardcover edition of this book. Dr. Estes wrote a very insightful book and the collection of the stories make sense why she picked them. It took me awhile to read the first time. It's one of the books that I would read over and over. I don't think that I would ever loan it out to anyone though.