{"id":151532,"date":"2011-01-05T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espirited.com\/clarissa-pinkola-estes-running-with-wolves\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:30:11","slug":"clarissa-pinkola-estes-running-with-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espirited.com\/en\/clarissa-pinkola-estes-running-with-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Who Run with the Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recommend this book \u2014 Women Who Run with the Wolves<\/em> by Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently I received a letter from a friend who wrote to me with great enthusiasm about this book and encouraged me to read it as well. She wrote that once she began reading it, she did not stop all night, and that the book made her \u201clook in a new way at those old stories I thought I knew, stirred emotions, and awakened an intention to change something in my life, and many other things besides\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I understood her enthusiasm very well, because this book had a powerful impact on me too when I first read it. And a few years later I read it again. It is one of those books I recommend without any hesitation, because it contains everything I value \u2014 wisdom, love, depth, and truthfulness. The author, Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s, is a Jungian analyst with an extraordinary gift for discerning the hidden wisdom in fairy tales \u2014 for telling it in a deeply moving way \u2014 and through her storytelling, for healing the deeply wounded part of the female psyche: the most oppressed, the most rejected. This is a book \u2014 essential reading for every woman who has lost contact with her primal nature, with the \u201cWild Woman,\u201d and who carries a deep longing for a more profound and meaningful life in the present.<\/p>\n

\u201cWild animals and the Wild Woman are endangered species. In former times, women\u2019s nature was plundered, suppressed, and forcibly reshaped. For several thousand years it has been devastated like the wilderness, banished to the most remote corners of the female psyche. The spiritual realms of the Wild Woman were plundered and burned, her habitats violated, and her natural cycles forced into rhythms foreign to her, for the pleasure of others.\u201d\u00b9<\/em>
\u2014 C. P. Est\u00e9s<\/em><\/p>\n

This book encourages the impulse to reconnect with the wild within us and to find the strength to express it in our lives, but it also warns that without maturity and wisdom, the wild may manifest outwardly in destructive ways. That is why this book is a wise book.<\/p>\n

If this reading suggestion is reaching you now, if you have not yet read the book, if what you read above stirred something in you \u2014 perhaps it is time to awaken the Wild Woman within yourself and to find the door through which to invite her into your life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a book of instructive women\u2019s stories, placed like milestones along the road. Read them and reflect on them, so that you may free yourself, give rein to love for yourself, for animals, the earth, children, sisters, and beloved ones. I must tell you at once that the doors to the world of the wild self are few, but they are priceless. If you bear a deep scar, that is a door. If you deeply love the sky and the water, that too is a door. If you long for a deeper, fuller, more natural life, that too is a door.\u201d\u00b9<\/em>
\u2014 C. P. Est\u00e9s<\/em><\/p>\n

From me \u2014 the idea of a book that opens doors; from you \u2014 the choice of whether you will step through that door. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Kameliya Hadzhiyska<\/em><\/p>\n

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Footnote: Direct translation of the quote(s) from the Bulgarian edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recommend this book \u2014 Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s. Recently I received a letter from a friend who wrote to me with great enthusiasm about this book and encouraged me to read it as well. She wrote that once she began reading it, she did not stop all night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[708,689],"class_list":["post-151532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-intelligence","tag-analytical-psychology","tag-recommended-books"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t