Women Supporting Women
Women Supporting Women
I'm a baby boomer. I was a teenager in the 60s. I witnessed the women's liberation movement in the 70s. I thought it was an OK thing, but I was busy having a child and being a housewife, so it really didn't impact me as much as it could have. Frankly, I didn't even realize that there were a lot of things even at the time that I couldn't do as a woman that my husband could do.
Now that I have many many years behind me, I look back at that time and think how naive I was. However, the one thing that I have always put a great deal of emphasis on throughout my life is my friendship with women. They have always been my rock, my stability, and a listening ear when needed. They always were there for me.
The time we live in now has many uncertainties across the board. But one of the certainties I feel in life is women supporting women. As we learn more about ourselves as women, we also learn how important it is to be there for each other. This book study is a lesson in learning more about ourselves and in the end, being more aware and understanding of ourselves and our fellow women. We hope you will join us in this endeavor to become more open, more aware, and more wild as women.
About the Book:
"Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.
Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul."
About the Article's Author
Glenda Prus, RN, Reiki Master, Co-Owner of Essential Energies
Glenda is a mother, a grandmother, a nurse, a minister (non-denominational), and a healer.