Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype
Good to know about some of the myths and fables. Read too much into it at your own minds sake. Maybe women get it more. Thanks Sebastian for more than the recommendation.

Table of Contents
The Bounty of Wild Woman
Foreword

Introduction: Singing Over the Bones
The Stories

1.The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman
La Loba, The Wolf Woman
The Four Rabbinim

2.Stalking the Intruder: the Beginning Initiation
Bluebeard
The Natural Predator of the Psyche
Naive Women as Prey
The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling
The Animal Groom
Blood Scent
Backtracking and Looping
Giving the Cry
The Sin-eaters
The Dark Man in Women’s Dreams

3.Nosing Out the Facts: the Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation
The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise
Task 1 – Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die
Task 2 – Exposing the Crude Shadow
Task 3 – Navigating in the Dark
Task 4 – Facing the Wild Hag
Task 5 – Serving the Non-Rational
Task 6 – Separating This from That
Task 7 – Asking the Mysteries
Task 8 – Standing on All Fours
Task 9 – Recasting the Shadow

4.The Mate: Union with the Other
Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee
The Dual Nature of Women
The Power of Two
The Power of Name
The Tenacious Dog Nature
Creeping Seductive Appetite
Achieving Fierceness
The Interior Woman

5.Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love
Death in the House of Love
The First Phases of Love
The Accidental Finding of Treasure
The Chase and the Hiding
Untangling the Skeleton
The Sleep of Trust
Giving the Tear
The Later Phases of Love
Heart as Drum and Singing Up
The Dance of Body and Soul

6.Finding One’s Pack: Belonging as Blessing
The Ugly Duckling
Exile of the Unmatched Child
Kinds of Mothers
The Ambivalent Mother
The Collapsed Mother
The Child Mother and the Unmothered Mother
The Strong Mother, The Strong Child
Bad Company
Not Looking Right
Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity
The Passing Stranger
Exile as Boon
The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World
Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What
Love for the Soul
The Mistaken Zygote

7.Joyous Body: the Wild Flesh
Body Talk
The Body in Fairy Tales
The Power of the Haunches
La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman

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8.Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Batt
The Feral Woman
The Red Shoes
Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales
The Handmade Red Shoes
The Traps
Trap #1 – The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life
Trap #2 – The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force
Trap #3 – Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine
Trap #4 – Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequence of Capture
Trap #5 – Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two
Trap #6 – Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion
Trap #7 – Faking It, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal
Trap #8 – Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction
Addiction
At the Executioner’s House
Trying to Take Shoes Off, Too Late
Returning to Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts

9.Homing: Returning to Oneself
Sealskin, Soulskin
Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation
Losing One’s Pelt
The Lonely Man
The Spirit Child
Drying Out and Crippling
Hearing the Old One’s Call
Staying Overlong
Cutting Loose, Diving In
The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water
Surfacing
The Practice of Intentional Solitude
Women’s Innate Ecology

10.Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life
La Llorona
The Pollution of the Wild Soul
Poison in the River
Fire on the River
The Man on the River
Taking Back the River
Focus and the Fantasy Mill
The Little Match Girl
Staving Off Creative Fantasy
Renewing the Creative Fire
The Three Gold Hairs

11.Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality
The Dirty Goddesses
Baubo: The Belly Goddess
Coyote Dick
A Trip to Rwanda

12.Marking Territory: the Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness
The Crescent Moon Bear
Rage as Teacher
Bringing in the Healer: Climbing the Mountain
The Spirit Bear
The Transformative Fire and Right Action
Righteous Rage
The Withered Trees
Descansos
Injured Instinct and Rage
Collective Rage
Stuck in Old Rage
Four Stages of Forgiveness

13.Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan
Secrets as Slayers
The Dead Zone
The Woman With Hair of Gold
The Scapecoat

14.La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest
The Handless Maiden
Stage 1 – The Bargain Without Knowing
Stage 2 – The Dismemberment
Stage 3 – The Wandering
Stage 4 – Finding Love in the Underworld
Stage 5 – The Harrowing of the Soul
Stage 6 – The Realm of the Wild Woman
Stage 7 – The Wild Bride and Bridegroom

15.Shadowing: Canto Hondo, the Deep Song

16.The Wolf’s Eyelash

Afterword: Story as Medicine
Addendum
Notes
Education of a Young Wolf: A Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index