Women who run with wolves: Chapter 14

Program Details

Come learn from feminine wisdom as we explore Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés non-fiction book, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Using Jungian psychology and Latinx scholarship, Dr. Estes presents the wolf as a female archetype. With a contemporary feminist lens, her book explores feminity, freedom, and intuition through myths and fairy tales.

During this Day Apart, we will be looking at Chapter 14 in which Dr. Estes unpacks the feminine journey through many stages and invites each of us to look at our own lives and hear the unique invitations to grow through the review.

Come and be with sisters who have journeyed through their own challenges and give thanks for the chance to share and listen to deepen their own wells of understanding so we can dispel fears and sorrows and move into sharing deeper love and compassion in our lives.

About the Leaders

Lee Ireland

Rev. Lee A. Ireland is now retired after serving many churches as a long-time Interim Pastor. She lives in Niantic, CT and is focusing on spiritual formation programs, retreats and offering Individual Spiritual Direction sessions. She received her M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School, and was trained as a Spiritual Director at Mercy Center, Madison, CT from 1997-99. She has served in 14 different congregational settings as well as working in a women's prison and as a per diem hospital chaplain. Since 1990, she has had the joy of leading retreats. She is well aware of how life throws us curve balls and we can become distracted from our soul's journey by many events that may lead us to dead-ends. As we choose to study the wisdom of others, journal, listen to our dreams or participate in retreats and spiritual formation programs, we learn how to listen within so we can stay on our faith journeys. We discern the guidance we need so we can live into our personal Calls, and live into unexpected moments which nurture the peace within and make our hearts and souls sing. We can then make new life choices that enable us to live in the Now as we love and serve from our centeredness, a sense of gratitude due our deepening relationship with God.