The Devouring Mother Archetype
When Care Becomes Control
In Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés honors and warns the wild woman of what she calls “righteous rage”—a sacred fury that is often silenced, pathologized, or turned inward. 1 Many women carry this rage unacknowledged, choking on it quietly, as I did through decades of bingeing and pu…
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