Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes: Untie the Strong Woman

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes first major work in nearly two decades since Women Who Run with the Wolves—Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul paints a contemporary portrait of the Blessed Mother as one who exudes strength, fierceness, love, and capability (ie: "Guadelupe as a Girl Gang Leader in Heaven"), liberating her from the visions of others where she has been trapped in seemingly fixed stereotypes. Helping to restore human dimensions to an icon that has traditionally appeared as a delicate religious figure, Dr. Estes' work is told not from a theological point of view, but from a personal one.