#psyches

"The psyches and souls of women have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

In order to converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word. Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one, meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one. It is the cure for the frazzled state so common to modern women."

Glen: It was a few weeks after we'd transformed human. It was bad. We'd been having nightmare after nightmare, and Mum at first thought it was about the killing. Finally, we just... slipped it out.

Glenda: They were talking about whatever, and we just... walked in and told them. Started bawling our eyes out about everything.

Glen: Mum kept whispering that everything was OK, and even Dad was rubbing our backs and just holding us close... He was also shaking with some pent up rage.

Glenda: A couple of days later, we were spending the week at Auntie Carrie's and Uncle Freddy's. They claimed it was for a honeymoon, but Glen and I knew.

"The psyches and souls of women have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

In order to converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word. Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one, meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one. It is the cure for the frazzled state so common to modern women."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes