Clarissa pinkola estes

Sometimes, we feel lost… as if we don’t know what we’re doing with our lives. Sometimes, we forget the connection to soul that is always there, patiently waiting for our attention. Sometimes, we lose the thread of how to come back to ourselves after taking care of everyone else. Sometimes, we need the ancient voices… Read More »Women’s Journey

a-prayer-clarissa-pinkola-estes | Paul E Nelson, Poet, Interviewer

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés is an award winning American poet, bestselling author, Diplomate senior Jungian psychoanalyst, cantadora (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition) and...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes | Women Who Run With the Wolves - I actually thought it meant "General Wolf" like a military person for a minute