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Encountering Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Linda Chapman
 I discovered the works of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés about ten 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.
Her newest release (10/03) is a two-CD, 2.5 hour conversation with Caroline Myss on intuition and the mystical life. If you're interested in spirituality and healing I highly recommend it.
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.
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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Rev. Linda Chapman
Psychotherapy · Marriage Counseling
Energy Psychology · Spiritual Support
6051 N. Brookline, Suite 111B
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Phone: (405) 495-4332
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