Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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... right, and, um, her work and, um, Clarissa Pink- Pinkola Estés, right-

Mm-hmm

... work.

And,

And our overculture, and overculture is a term I borrow from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, who is talking about the energies that press down on us.

Not all equally.

Not all equally.

The Inner Authority Method is helping women build off of All of these eight archetypes that I've constructed and built inside of herself.

So normally, and this dawned on me a couple years ago, it's like the fact that one of the best selling books ever for women was Women Who Run With Wolves, right? By Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

Okay.

It's a book based on goddesses and mythology and deity, right? All these different deities.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and, and if you saw other things that I'm not remembering or missing of [laughs] like I, you know, I, I, I love Clarissa Pinkola Estés' work, and she works with myth, you know? But it, to me it doesn't feel quite so, um, entrenched or w- in, in this like it's all about me kinda thing.

Yeah.

I don't know.

your personal unconscious, but also is there a part of that that is societal, collective, and that is a function of being immersed in a capitalist, colonialized society? This process is often called decolonial work or decontamination.

And Dr. Jennifer Mullen and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes have both written and spoken about this process.

And I think it is something that we could do over a lifetime and still have more work to do.

So this is the first thing is just acknowledging that maybe there is more here.

So I chose a passage that predates our current moment, whose words seem timeless because their wisdom has little to do with the details of external events or and everything to do with the internal resilience we summon in times of adversity.

The words are from poet Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

Here's what she wrote.

My friends, do not lose heart.

What else is there if it's not your body? So the crone for me is owning the power of the mysterious at that space.

The book Trish is talking about is Women Who Run With the Wolves by the Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

Published in 1992, it spent 145 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list, a record at the time.

And one of the folktales Estes works with in it is La Llorona, The Weeping Woman Who Haunts the Water, which is the same story Trish grew up with in New Mexico.

of, of wholeness, right? Right.

um exactly you know it's it's it's it's uh it's interesting because like that is a major theme in all of the works that we talk about like clarissa pinkola estes marine murdoch it's a it's a it's a heroine's journey the the quest for wholeness like that is the the subline of that right yeah um when we talk about um bell hooks and healing the wounded masculine as a concept so specifically her work on you know the the masculinity, especially in, inside of our culture, she talks about living with integrity as you are finally being the whole

self, not just the sort of one that has to live in the violent world.

Right.

Martine Prechtel talked a lot about grief and grieving and the lack of grief in this culture.

Stephen Jenkinson, even Clarissa Pinkola Estes has been a teacher of mine for many years.

I consider Wapio a great teacher in the work that I do, like that the My teachings around birth really supported me in what it is that I'm doing now, because I do feel like it's a birthing process.

Softening the cervix, opening and becoming something new.