Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Deb Bowen.

And I'm Samantha Faye.

And we are just delighted and honored that you have joined us in our monthly book club discussion.

I'm so excited about this episode Samantha because this is one of my five favorite books in the universe ever period at all.

Wow. That's a hard contest to win with you.

It is because you know I like books, but it is. And I'll talk a lot later about why I love this book so much and how it has dramatically impacted my life.

But in any case, you tell us all about it.

Okay, sure. So we are discussing as we've been telling you guys, women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola estes.

She is a psychoanalyst, a poet and a self-proclaimed keeper of stories, which I think is a wonderful title.

She utilizes young Ian archetypes to explore feminine mythology, believing that women can reclaim the divine feminine, the female underworld by exploring these age-old myths.

And you know, I was reading a book review of this famous book, which was first published in 1992.

And Amanda Hess, a New York Times writer, she wrote,

when I first picked up Estes' book, I did so wearily. A review printed across the bottom says that it venerates the female soul.

But I don't believe in the soul and I extra don't believe in the female soul.

When it was published, wolves read as a retort to the 1990 book Iron John, a book about men written by another poet and young Ian enthusiast Robert Bluy,

who instructed Menda Harness their Zeus energy. But now Estes' premise feels intention with feminism itself, or at least the part of it that seeks to raise the binary clear space for trans and non-binary experiences,

and cast gender as a performance merely masquerading as a natural event.

And so she talks about how this book is about locating women's power in her body, even in a metaphysical sense.

It can exist in a realm that most men cannot access.

And I found that really interesting, that this book is about really reclaiming who we women are at our core.

Estes believes that wolves and women share a psychic bond in their strength and loyalty to their family and their pack of friends.

She's hoping these ancient stories help women get in touch with her inner wild women, her primitive side, and learn to trust their intuition.

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