Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman (Rider 100)

This book helped me go through so many internal struggles and find myself again. Truly amazing and inspiring book, makes you think a lot and cultivates inner work. Beautifully written.

I don't normally leave reviews, but in this instance I feel utterly compelled to do so. When I am enjoying a book, I devour it completely, having started this book in that same tradition, I reached page 18 and realised that this is not how this book should be read. So I started again. This isn't a book. It's a journey. It is written to be dissected and digested carefully and thoroughly. Each word, line, paragraph and chapter need to be read, 're read and absorbed before proceeding to the next.I encourage you to read this as a learning text, my copy is overflowing with post it's highlighting singular words, phrases and whole beautiful chunks of text that resonate with me.Insightful, inspiring, intuitive and incredibly intelligent are just a few words out of a thousand that I will use to describe Women Who Run With The Wolves. You can travel to the far corners of the earth searching for answers as to why you feel lost, searching, anxious and misplaced in this world, but the utterly remarkable storytelling talents and patient teachings of Clarissa Pinkola Estés have helped me understand why I often feel that way and how I can take steps to change it.A pleasure and a delight to read, humourous and emotional. I found alot of somewhat astonished joy, in her incredible technique of being able to so accurately and poetically articulate how my soul is feeling.I can not praise this book enough! Can you tell? It is a "bible" of sorts to me, a gift to all humankind, a guide of self discovery, recovery, acceptance and a path to our natural and rightful power of self.Life and self affirming, truly truly a literary gift to the world. I shall be buying every woman I know a copy and will hopefully share in their enlightened journeys of growth. I will also encourage them (and you) to write footnotes and thoughts in the margins and fill it with your own truths and learnings that you discover along the way.Far beyond everything I hoped it would be. So deeply beautiful. An astounding accomplishment.

This is a must read !

Good book

This book is quite a poetry written in prose. A lot of repetition and different metaphors used to describe same theme/ idea. I think author intentionally did that, so every reader can find her own way to understand the meaning behind topic, but be ready for long and not easy reading, even though you got the idea, you will be going through many different metaphors to describe same think over and over again. I think it's spiritual book more than psychological. If you never read anything spiritual and you are not familiar with any spiritual ideas like 'higher self', this book can open your mind and eyes to new ideas, and I can see how it can be life changing for some people. However if you read spiritual books before, integrate spirituality, mindfulness in your daily life, and you would like to go deeper, this book will extend your knowledge a little bit further but not too far.

A classic that I have only just recently got around to reading. This is a long book with so much information, insights, a ha moments and magic. This is one I am reading slowly and will re read again and again. So many people would benefit from reading this book.

When I turned thirteen my mum gave me a copy of this book, telling me, "This is a book that no woman should be without." I was thrilled with having a "grown-up" book, and treasured it. It took me several years to understand it enough to read beyond the wonderful stories...but then one day I started reading and it all just clicked. I couldn't put it down and it has been my constant companion ever since.This is a beautifully written book made up of many stories, some well-known and others less so, explanations of these stories and what they can teach us about ourselves and advice on how to implement these insights for the maximum feeling of freedom and happiness in our everyday life. This book has helped me through many times when I was in need of comfort and strength and will help me through more to come.Whether reading the stories or the interpretations of them, it is like reading pure poetry. Clarissa Estes speaks with wisdom about things that she has obviously spent her life studying and learning.One reviewer talked about this as being a book for man-haters. I have been reading it for well over 10 years now and I never ever got that impression. I don't see why glorifying the feminine has to equal hating the masculine. For me this book is about feeling more empowered in myself as a woman, and not anything to do with the putting down of men.I have recommended it to many friends, as well as buying it for one (who loves it as much as I do), and I am planning on giving it to more friends soon. Give yourself a treat and buy it today, it's a purchase that will last you a lifetime.

Please read this book! It will enhance your Inner Being and help you heal from hurts we all get. I am loving it so much. Good information to last a lifetime. We need this! We do! The one to read over and over and certain passages that brighten your spirit. Awesome. Touching. Let's tears flow to purge out the angst..at times. Refreshing. So well thought out and in order and you know it is true deep inside. We were restricted and programed to be not ourself. Let freedom ring...we deserve to be our real true self. A guide to accepting you as you and loving it.

esse livro traz a essência feminina como algo primário, instintivo mas sem perder a delicadeza. é cheio de significados, cheio de gatilhos e vale a pena pra mulheres que buscam se reconectar.

Rediscover your female psyche.Don't allow the dehumanising consumer society destroy your inner being.

Well done! Nice companion for woman on the self-development path

I'm an avid book reader, but hadn't yet cried the way I did in some of these parts (looking at you chapter 5). The book is a fundamental read for women 25+. I wish i could order it for every woman in my life. The imagery and rawness were highly captivating.