A Woman’s Bible = Women Who run With Wolves

There are two books I believe every woman should have in their arsenal: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’, Women Who Run With Wolves and Christiane Northrup’s, Women’s Bodies Women’s Wisdom. I first read these books in my early twenties, but I just dusted off my two bibles and have realized that there is so much I never absorbed or understood when I first read them. A few weeks ago I asked my eldest daughter to read a chapter in Wolves on intuition. She begrudgingly did, and I’m hoping she absorbed a fraction of the wise words. If I can pass anything of value to her, it is to hone in on that intuitive piece that may sometimes be nothing more than a small voice seeming to speak to us through our dreams, whisper in our bellies, or imagination. Estes has bestowed upon us all a great gift. A map to hep us navigate our own unconscious by analyzing and retelling the myths, stories and fairy tales that we have heard since childhood. I know for myself I had to dismantle a whole life to get back to my feral yet authentic roots. Sometimes it’s a question of survival to get back to our wild selves . . .

Here are a few quotes from the book:

“Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can see through the shields of mundane human hearing. With these formidable psychic tools a woman takes on a precognitive animal consciousness, one that deepens femininity and sharpens her ability to move confidently in the outer world.”