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I like to believe that we are all encircled by an invisible ring of loving ancestors, made up of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers, plus women of wisdom no longer living whom we honor as mentors, whether or not we ever met them in the flesh.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
"The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities f
... See moreDreams are portales, entrances, preparations, and practices for the next step in consciousness, the “next day” in the individuation process.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts. And even with these well-crafted practices, much of what
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul
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the hag-maiden, she shows us what it means to be, not withered, but wizened. Babies are born wizened with instinct. They know in their bones what is right and what to do about it. It is innate. If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next. If she has lost it, she c
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
In the field of somatic psychology, this process is commonly called “embodiment,” and it is a baby’s very first developmental task.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
If she is taught to hate her own body, how can she love her mother’s body that has the same configuration as hers?5—her grandmother’s body, the bodies of her daughters as well? How can she love the bodies of other women (and men) close to her who have inherited the body shapes and configurations of their ancestors? To attack a woman thusly destroys
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The Jungian writer Polly Young-Eisendrath