Women Who Run With The Wolves

Discover the inspirational million-copy bestseller and cult feminist classic, an empowering guide to unleash your inner wild. CHOSEN BY EMMA WATSON FOR HER FEMINIST BOOK CLUB 'OUR SHARED SHELF' 'A gift of profound insight, wisdom and love' Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Colour Purple 'Everyone who can read should read this book' Maya Angelou, activist and award-wining author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. But for centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialises her emotions. Until now. In her groundbreaking and inspirational book, Women Who Run With The Wolves, award-winning poet and psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes helps us to reclaim our 'wild woman' - the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. With a combination of time-honoured stories, myths, fairy tales, and casework, Estes will set you on a beautiful path to unleash your inner wild, helping you to unlock: Emotional resilience and inner knowing Creativity and self-expression Purpose, passion and authentic confidence A healthier, more empowered relationship with yourself and others Profound, empowering, and thoughtfully written, Women Who Run With The Wolves is the essential guidebook to help you discover self-confidence and purpose in your life and reclaim your inner wild. Praise for The Women Who Run With the Wolves: 'In a modern world that limits wisdom to 'facts' and women's access even to those, Dr Estes has restored the fire - for us all.' Gloria Steinem, activist and bestselling author 'Life-enhancing' Irish Times 'Estes points to storytelling, our ancient narratives, as a way for women to reconnect to the Wild Woman all women have within themselves, but have lost' Emma Watson 'All women should read this... It's insightful and inspirational and gets you back in touch with your authentic self' June Sarpong, presenter 'A wonderful book...for anybody who cares about their relationships and their lives' Anne Devlin, playwright 'Mesmerising' Newsweek Review: 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 In a modern world that limits wisdom to 'facts' and women's access even to those, Dr Estes has restored the fire - for us all. -- Gloria Steinem 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 A life-enhancing way to make contact with our deep feminine instincts: the wild woman within * Irish Times * All women should read this. In fact, mothers should pass the knowledge contained in these pages down to their daughters as they turn 16. It's insightful and inspirational and gets you back in touch with your authentic self. -- June Sarpong 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 * The work of Clarissa Pinkola Estes [...] 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 * A lexicon for the female psyche that is riotous, upbeat and unique * The Times * A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women * The Washington Post * Author Biography: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., is an award-winning poet, senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and a cantadora (keeper of the old stories of the Latina tradition). Dr Estes founded and directs human rights educational organisation, La Sociedad de Guadalupe, which broadcasts, via audio, throughout the world. She uses the power of metaphor and the art of storytelling to guide listeners through unfamiliar doors of perception and observation: we return with more of ourselves.