#2. Life School: Story as Medicine (Intro, Women Who Run With the Wolves)

This is our monthly Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: “Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype” by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

In this episode, we discuss chapter 1 “The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman”. We invite you to read along with us. However, each Book Club episode is designed so that you can listen whether you’ve read the chapter or not.

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Podcast Episode Summary:

In chapter 1, we dive even deeper into the Wild Woman archetype. We talk about the function of this archetype and the type of work we can do to engage more with the Wild Woman in our lives, so that we can begin to collect and restore the pieces of ourselves that we’ve lost.

Timestamps:
0:39 - Chapter synopsis
8:54 - Collecting the indestructible pieces of ourselves
15:45 - The Life/Death/Life Cycle and creating a healthy relationship to anger
20:23 - Finding your soul's truth
24:00 - Understanding Wild Woman metaphors
28:57 - The trial & error mindset and personality types 
38:39 - The hope of the Wild Woman within
44:38 - The optimal attitude towards the spiritual journey

We would love to know:

• What did you think of chapter 1?
• What is one quote from the chapter that stood out to you?

Try this at home:

Take the quote that stood out to you and discuss with a friend or journal about what it brings up for you at this time in your life. If you’re comfortable sharing, we’d love to hear from you in the Full Heart Free Voice Podcast Community Facebook group!

Other works mentioned during this episode: 

• “The Art of Empathy” by Karla McLaren  

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• Find out more about Emma Veritas at: https://www.wildauthenticity.com/
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Attributions:

Theme music: A special thank you to these incredible artists, who created the music featured in our podcast: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart