The Joyous Body: Myths & Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype

From Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est

Clarissa Pinkola Estes was born in Indiana in 1943 to parents of Spanish and Mexican ancestry, but was later adopted by Hungarian immigrants. She received her Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was certified as a Jungian analyst in 1984. She worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice and developed and taught the Writing as Liberation of the Spirit program in state and federal prisons. Estes served as executive director of the C.G. Jung Center for Education and Research and cofounded and codirected Colorado Authors for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights. One of Estes's better-

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est?'s invites listeners to The Joyous Body. Here, she shares original stories, poems, and psychological commentary about the challenges, remedies, and ancient knowings of the holy female body, "that which is not a dumb servant but a divine fellow traveler and consort." Six inspirational sessions celebrate and reclaim the mystery and power of the feminine form, exploring: "How to Love the Body Truly" The Midwife Exemplar: The Body as Radiant Being The Old Woman as "The Original" Busy-and-Wise Body The Great Silverbeards: Making Peace with the Body "Life Size" story The Body Bill of Rights "The Ice Queen: The Distorted Mirror" "I Tell Your Beautiful Body to You" On remarkable life emerging from the midst of the wound "How the White-Throated Sparrow Came to the New World" The Dancing Grandmothers "As the wise woman gathers years, like an ancient tree, she grows even more arms, even more flowers and fruits," explains Dr.

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