Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
updated 1h ago
updated 1h ago
Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their relationships gain meaning and depth and health; their cycles of sexuality, creativity, work, and play are re-established; they are no lo
... See moreSara Campbell added 2mo ago
Fairy tales, myths, and stories provide understandings which sharpen our sight so that we can pick out and pick up the path left by the wildish nature. The instruction found in story reassures us that the path has not run out, but still leads women deeper, and more deeply still, into their own knowing. The tracks we all are following are those of t
... See moreSara Campbell added 2mo ago
there is a force which will act in opposition to the instincts of the natural Self, and that that malignant force is what it is.
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
“The Red Shoes” in essence teaches us that the wild psyche must be properly protected—by unequivocally valuing it ourselves, by speaking out in its interest, by refusing to submit to psychic unhealth.
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
In “being good,” a woman closes her eyes to everything obdurate, distorted, or damaging around her, and just “tries to live with it.”
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
In terms of the wildish nature of women, it is this normalization of violence, and what scientists subsequently termed “learned helplessness,” that influences women to not only stay with drunken mates, abusive employers, and groups that exploit and harass them but causes them to feel unable to rise up to support the things they believe in with all
... See moreNatasha Schön added 2mo ago
They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
The wild nature would never agree to flog the form in order to prove worth, prove “control,” prove character, be more visually pleasing, more financially valuable.
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago
It is important to keep our eyes open and to carefully weigh offers of an easier existence, a trouble-free path, especially if, in exchange, we are asked to surrender our personal creative joy to a cremating fire rather than enkindling one of our own making.
Natasha Schön added 2mo ago