This episode is the first of a three-part focus on Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. For those that have not read this book, first let me say that it is one of those life-changing, must reads for a women’s book club. Estes’ writing is poetic, inspiring, and connects with emotions deep and elemental in women. She reaches sympathetically into the starved soul and commands our reclamation of the “innate instinctual Self” (7). In each chapter, Estes retells a traditional folktale, and then uses these archetypal female characters to unearth our individual and collective female psyches—“No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands wild and woman, intuitively” (6).

Leigh and Amaya invite FemmSouth bookclub sisters, Brinkley & Alodia, to come on air and discuss their favorite stories: The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise, all about female intuition, and The Red Shoes, which deals with women’s instinctual creative spirit. Poet and sound alchemist, Adwiti Haffner, reads her two poems “Burning Log” and “Shhh! The Bluebruisepurple Shades of #MeToo” You don’t want to miss her powerful, inspiring voice!

To read a transcript of Adwiti’s poetry, visit our blog on https://www.femmsouth.com/

To learn more about Adwiti, visit her website https://www.alivewithadwiti.com/

Follow her on Instgram @Adwitihaffner

Cover art by Jeanie Tomanek @everywomanart

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