One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch ligh… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.

I understand mythology. I understand stories. I understand poetry. I understand that they cut close to the bone. I am a poet who became a psychoanalyst. That is my background. I am a cantadora. I am a storyteller. It comes from my feet, upward, not from my brain, downward.

Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild women howling, laughing, singing up The One who loves us.

The pathologizing of variation in women's bodies is a deep bias endorsed by many psychological theorists, most certainly by Freud.