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Encountering Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Linda Chapman
Before we get rolling here, let's lay down a groundrule: If you contact me asking how to contact Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, I will
politely (and with a prayer for you) ignore your request. (I really don't know how to reach her!) Believe me, I understand the wish. Her works tap into the deep archetypal self, and
the messages she presents feel like food for so many of us who have languished so long without sustenance for the soul. Now before you despair, look further
down on the page for the Maven Productions link. That is who to contact if you wish or need to contact Dr. E. :) (And good luck with that!)
Moving right along...
 I discovered the works of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés nearly twenty years ago. It was a stroke of grace. I find her books and
audio tapes (and now CDs as well) to be profoundly healing and I recommend her works to my clients and friends as often as I can.
 When I was managing
an online community for trauma and abuse survivors, we sent hundreds of copies of her tape Warming the Stone Child: Stories and Myths About Abandonment and the Unmothered Child around the world, and the
feedback was extremely positive. The most common remark I heard was that people felt she was speaking directly to them, and to the issues of their day. Definitely not "pop psychology", Dr. Estés taps directly and deeply into the psyche through her storytelling, which draws on old archetypes and folk tales to illustrate psychological truths.
I say she is a force of nature.
In 2000 I travelled to New Harmony, Indiana where Dr. Estés was presenting a series of lectures over three days for the Fay Lecture Series (Texas A&M University). Her presentation was La Curandera: Healing in Two Worlds. It was inspirational to see her.
Dr. Estés appeared in New York at events sponsored by the Omega Institute in April 2005 (with Caroline Myss and many others) as well as in June, 2005, with Robert Bly.
In 2009 she teamed with Soundstrue.com to present Mother Night, a 6-session webcast. In 2010 she'll be presenting another series, The Wise Old Woman.
You can listen live over the internet (the 2009 event was based on the GoToMeeting platform) or download the MP3s after the broadcast, or both.
A very moving and personal piece which was presented at the close of the CTA National Conference.
Additional resources by and about Dr. Estés:
Her public relations website. This is the place to contact if
you are trying to get in touch with Dr. Estes. (Please do not contact me for her contact info. I don't have it! Thank-you!)
Dr. Estés is the author of the bestselling book Women Who Run With the Wolves (1992). She is a psychoanalyst, a poet, for three years a post-trauma specialist at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the founder of La Sociedad de Guadalupe, and chairperson of the Colorado State Grievance Board.
It's my pleasure to share her work with you. By the way, if you reload the page you will see her books and audio selections rotated through randomly.
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