The book "Women who Run with the Wolves' has some profound things to say about the primordial feminine instinct that many have forgotten.

I first read this book over 10 years ago! And I am wanting to REALLY digest this book with a group of powerful women who feel ready to reclaim their WILD WISDOM.

Every month we will discuss a new chapter.... to help you DIVE in DEEP and help you take ROOT in the DARK SOIL of your psyche.

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Danielle Petersen, Wild Soul Living and Gina (GG) Garris, Bliss Coach will hold the space to re-interupt this fabulous text of folk tales, art, and nature.

This is a book to read no more than a couple of chapters at a time and then to step back for a period of integration.

The integration and discussion are key aspects for the integration so that you can be planted and emerge as the women who has claimed her TRUE ESSENCE.

This monthly online setting is an opportunity to get in touch and transform your own inner wolf inside of YOU!

Because every chapter is its own unique story... you don't need to attend the meeting the month before to join the next.

It is encouraged to come as often as you can as creates a more intimate and woven experience.

If you are interested in joining Gina and Danielle for their 4 day 'Reclaim your Wild Essence" retreat. Click here.

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More about the book:

Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian analyst, doctor in ethno-clinical psychology, and author of this book. It took her over 20 years to make it reality.

Open the pages and you are immersed in a vast, dense, fascinating world of oral story tradition and inspiring psychology.

The book has an educational and personal growth bent into one powerful book.

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

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Is this experience for you?

Women who Run with the Wolves is for people who want to understand each other, work on their identity and self-worth, and heal emotional wounds.

Wounds we sometimes inherit from our ancestors or patriarchal institutions themselves.

This book is a road map to find all the “traps”that keep us from finding the way back home to our true selves and our instincts.

It moves us towards that wild woman, perceptive with a playful spirit and wonderful capacity for affection…

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Note: We have schedule only 4 sessions.

• June: Read chapter 5
• July: Read chapter 6
• August: Read chapter 7
• September: Read chapter 8
• October: Read chapter 8
• November: Read chapter 9
• December: Read chapter 10

(Every week expect meditation, discussion and activity)

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Quotes from Women who Run with the Wolves

"Within each woman there is a powerful force of good instincts, creativity, passion, and timeless knowledge. Society has made us forget it in an attempt to “tame” us. "― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura, creature, has innate integrity and healthy boundaries. These words, wild and woman, cause women to remember who they are and what they are about. They create a metaphor to describe the force which funds all females. They personify a force that women cannot live without.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“All the “not readies,” all the “I need time,” are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a “completely ready,” there is never a really “right time.” As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one’s nose, and jumps into the abyss.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she sleeps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“A woman’s heat is not a state of sexual arousal but a state of intense sensory awareness that includes, but is not limited to, her sexuality.”-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the choice of mates and lovers. A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before you will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul."

“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”

“Although many things are good and nutritious for the soul, most fall into Wild Woman's four basic food groups: time, belonging, passion, and sovereignty. Stock up.”

“The sacred and the senxual/sexual live very near one another in the psyche, for they are all brought to attention through a sense of wonder, not from intellectualizing but through experiencing something through the physical pathways of the body, something that for the moment or forever, whether is a kiss, a vision, a belly laugh, or whatever, changes us, shakes us out, takes us to a pinnacle, smoothes our our lines, gives us a dance step, a whistle, a true burst of life.”

“...in the sacred, the obscene, the sexual, there is always a wild laugh waiting...laughter is hidden side of women’s sexuality; it is a physical, elemental, passionate, vitalizing, and therefore arousing.”

“As we create, this wild and mysterious being is creating us in return, filling us with love. We are evoked in the way creatures are evoked by sun and water. We are made so alive that we in turn give life out; we burst, we bloom, we divide and multiply, we impregnate, incubate, impart, and give forth.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"...A woman's creative ability is her most valuable asset, for it gives outwardly and feeds her inwardly at every level: psychic, spiritual, mental, emotive, and economic...As we create, this wild and mysterious being is creating us in return, filling us with love."

"Creativity is the love of something,having so much love for something whether a person, a word, an image, an idea, a land, or humanity that all that can be done with the overflow is to create. It is not a matter of wanting to, not a singular act of will, one solely must."

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectability) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”

"At it's root, creativity is not about success and not about failure. It's not about knowing why, or what, or even who. It's a mystery. And it's a spiritual place to live."

“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands- all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.”

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.”

“The comprehension of this Wild Woman nature is not a religion but a practice. It is a psychology in its truest sense...a knowing of the soul. Without her, women are without ears to hear soultalk or to register the chiming of their own inner rhythms...Without her, they forget why they’re here, they hold on when they would best hold out. Without her they are silent when they are in fact on fire. She is their regulator, she is their soulful heart, the same as the human heart regulates the physical body.”

"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your own soul."

“If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time.”

“The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.” - Clarissa Pinkola Estés