Clarissa Pincola Estes – Women Who Run With The Wolves – Myths And Storie by the Wild Woman Archetype

Now their end-of-the-day fatigue comes from satisfying work and endeavors, not from being shut up in too small a mindset, job, or relationship. They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.

A woman may have difficult) releasing anger even when it impedes her own life, even when it causes her to obsessively dwell upon events years old as though they happened yesterday. Dwelling on trauma and doing so intensely for a period of time is

very important to healing. But eventually all injury has to be given sutures and be allowed to heal over into scar tissue.

Some women act as though it is an achievement to be cold. It is not. It is an act of defensive anger.