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148. Reflections on The Wild Woman Archetype & What Wisdom She Can Share In These Divisive Times

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Today, we revisit this episode where we reflected on the various emotions people are currently feeling post-election, and turn toward four different wise nuggets from the Wild Woman Archetype that can provide hope and guidance during these tumultuous times.

In today’s episode we explore the following quotes from “Women Who Run With the Wolves” by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

  1. “There is a very hidden aspect to most collectives that encourages oppression of women’s wild, soulful, and creative lives, and that is the encouragement within the culture for women themselves to “tell on” one another and to sacrifice their sisters (or brothers) to restrictions that do not reflect the relatedness found in the familial values of feminine nature.
  2. “When the collective is hostile to a woman’s natural life, rather than accept the derogatory or disrespectful labels that are placed upon her, she can and must hold on, hold out, and search for that which she belongs to – and preferably outlive, out thrive, and out-create those who vilified her.”
  3. “I wish I could say that by now all the traps for women no longer exist, or that that women are so wise that they can spot the traps from far off.  But it is not so.  we still have the predator in the culture, and it tries to undercut and destroy all consciousness and all bids for wholeness.  There is much truth to the saying that freedoms have to be fought for anew every twenty years.  Sometimes it seems that they have to be fought for every five minutes.”
  4. “But the wild nature teaches that we meet challenges as they occur.  When wolves are badgered, they don’t say, “Oh no!  Not again!”  They bound, pounce, run, dive, scramble, play dead, go for the throat, whatever needs to be done.  So we cannot be shocked that there is entropy, deterioration, hard times.  Let us understand that the issues that entrap women’s joy will always shift and shape-change, but in our own essential natures we find the absolute stamina, the necessary libido for all necessary acts of the heart.”

    5. Get the book “Women Who Run with the Wolves”

    Past Episodes You Might Like: 

    Episode 104: The Current Extremes of Light and Dark: Finding Our Way Back to Balance

    Episode 101: Amanda Litman: Run for Something

    Episode 91: Finding Calm in a Divisive World 

    Episode 76: Women Finding Their Voice

    Episode 70:  Women in Leadership

    Episode 69: The Power of Healing in Community

    Wisdom Wednesday’s With Dr. Betsy that Relate to these Times:

    Wisdom Wednesday Group Meditation on Finding Your Central Channel

    Wisdom Wednesday Meeting Our Shadow

    Wisdom Wednesday How to Find Calm in A Divisive World?

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