☾ A powerful journey into feminine wisdom, intuition, and the wild soul.
✧ Why I Recommend It
Women Who Run With the Wolves isn't simply a book—it's an experience. Through myths, fairy tales and stories from different cultures, Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the idea of the "Wild Woman"—the intuitive, creative, instinctive part of ourselves that so many of us lose touch with as we grow older.
What I love most about this book is that it encourages women to stop apologising for who they are. It reminds us that our sensitivity is not weakness, our intuition deserves to be trusted and our voices matter, even when they've been silenced for years.
This isn't a book to race through. It's one to read slowly, allowing each story to settle before moving on. Every chapter offers something new to reflect upon, and I find it reveals different lessons depending on where you are in your own journey.
☾ What I Took From It
The biggest lesson I took from this book was that healing isn't about becoming someone new—it's about remembering the parts of yourself you've forgotten along the way.
Throughout life we often learn to make ourselves smaller, quieter or more acceptable to others. This book gently asks us what would happen if we stopped abandoning ourselves and started listening to our instincts again.
The strongest version of you isn't the one who never struggles. It's the one who learns to trust her own inner voice, even after years of forgetting it was there.
Reading this reminded me that every difficult experience can become part of our wisdom rather than something that defines us. Our scars don't separate us from our strength—they often become the very reason we discover it.
For me, this book reinforced the importance of creativity, boundaries, intuition and honouring the parts of ourselves that society often tells us to hide.
✧ Best For
Women's healing and empowerment
Reconnecting with your intuition
Shadow work and self-discovery
Breaking unhealthy patterns
Personal and spiritual growth
Anyone drawn to mythology, symbolism and psychology
☾ Gentleness Rating
★★★☆☆
Deeply powerful rather than light. Some chapters can stir strong emotions and invite honest self-reflection, making it a wonderful companion if you're ready to explore your inner world at your own pace.
✧ Emotional Impact
Empowering, transformative and deeply Reflective
☾ Nova Reflection
There is a version of you that existed long before the world told you who you should be. She is curious, courageous, creative and deeply intuitive. She has never disappeared—she has simply been waiting patiently for you to remember her. Healing isn't about finding someone new. It's about finding your way home to the woman you have always been.
✧Book recommendation by Nova Rising Soul
Artwork inspired by the themes of the book. All rights to the original work remain with the author and publisher.