This is our “Life School” episode where we take a theme from the chapter we are studying from our current book club selection, Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and we share a tool, practice, or exercise for how to work with that theme in a practical way. This month we are studying chapter 1: “The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman”. 

In this episode we demonstrate how to use an adaptation of a Jungian dream interpretation technique as a more advanced form of “Story as Medicine” than what we presented in life school episode #2. We invite you to listen as we walk each other through this exercise and invite you to try the same exercise for yourself following the prompts below.

Try this at home: Dream Interpretation On Story

1. Open up your book to the story of “La Loba" in chapter 1 and simply plop your finger down on a random sentence on the page.
2. Pick out each of the objects in the sentence and for each object write down any personal associations you have with that object. Ask yourself:  What metaphorical significance does it hold for me? What images or memories arise?
3. Now write out the sentence and replace the subject in that sentence with your personal associations.
4. Read the sentence again and ask yourself: What motifs do you see in this sentence, and how is the motif showing up in your life or where does it *need* to show up in your life?

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes's audio “Beginner’s Dream Interpretation” which can be purchased here.

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Attributions:

Theme music: A special thank you to these incredible artists, who created the music featured in our podcast: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé. 

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

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