Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

As cantadora (keeper of the old stories), and as an ethnic woman from two cultures, it would be

If you seek a healer, analyst, therapist, or counselor, make certain they derive from a discipline that has solid predecessors, that they truly know how to do what they hold themselves out as able to do. Ask friends, relatives, and co-workers whom you trust for their recommendations. Make certain whichever teacher you choose is trained, and adequat

The master-apprentice model provides the kind of careful atmosphere in which I have been able to help my learners seek and develop the stories that will accept them, that will shine through them, not just lay on the surface of their being like dime-store jewelry.

Although some use stories as entertainment alone, and although television in particular too often uses storylines that depict the necrosis of life, tales are, in one of their oldest senses, a healing art.

There are ways and there are ways. There are few easy ways but no easy ways that I know of that also have integrity.

“The writing began long before the writing began”—this I can say with confidence. The actual physical writing by hand began in 1971, after a pilgrimage from the desert to my homeplace where I asked for and received blessings from my elders to write a special body of work rooted in the song-language of our spiritual roots.

Gaining explicit permission to tell another’s tale and the proper crediting of that tale, if permission to it is given, is absolutely essential, for it maintains the genealogical umbilicus;

In dealing with stories, we are handling archetypal energy,

Some have said that my work constitutes “a newly emerging field.” I must say, with all due respect, that the essence of the work I’ve been given to do is from very old tradition. This kind of work does not fit restfully under the category of “emerging” anything. Thousands of people in every generation worldwide, mostly old ones who are often “unedu