Day 3: Just Jump as a Wolf, Read Any Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
She is a storyteller. She wrote everyday for her work to be found and be found. I love how she takes the oral tradition into the written word and reminds us not to lose our child-selves. She is a great example of continuing your work, telling your stories, inspiring others and finding awe. Everyone on this earth has a destiny - as long as you are moving onward, “my time of being spellbound by rocks on the road is now done” and i choose to move forward.
“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.”
Dr. C.P. Estés' is a lifelong activist in service of the voiceless; as a post-trauma recovery specialist and psychoanalyst of 48 years clinical practice with the persons traumatized by war, exiles and torture victims; and as a journalist covering stories of human suffering and hope.
She is Mestiza Latina [Native American/ Mexica Spanish], presently in her seventies. She grew up in the now vanished oral tradition of her war-torn immigrant, refugee families who could not read nor write, or did so haltingly, and for whom English was their third language overlying their ancient natal languages.
I’ll just let her quotes speak for themselves, possibly one speaks to you. And if you want to learn more read: “ Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype”
““The best land to plant and grow something new again is rock bottom. In that sense, hitting rock bottom, although extremely painful, is also the ground to sow new life on.””
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
