PoisedBook #3: "Women Who Run With the Wolves" — a Book that Every Woman Should Read

There are books that entertain, books that educate, and then there are books that rewire your soul. Women Who Run With The Wolves is the latter.

This month’s Poised Book pick isn’t just a read — it’s a mirror, a map, and a howl in the dark. And for me, it arrived at the exact moment I needed the most.

The Night the Universe Whispered: A Wolf-Sign in the Midst of Pain

I was sitting in a dimly lit lecture hall in my city, deep into the Bluebeard chapter — a story about women who ignore the "forbidden room" in their lover’s castle, only to discover the corpses of past wives — when the universe delivered me a chilling sign.

I raised my eyes from the page. And there he was. My abusive ex, walking toward me.

He lived 100 kilometers away and had no reason to be in that room. Yet there he stood — as if summoned by the very passage I was reading about men who destroy women who get too close to their truth.

I clutched the book like a talisman. My friend, a Jungian art therapist and somatic practitioner, had warned me weeks earlier: "This book will find you in the places you’re still caged". She was right.

That night, I understood that this book wasn’t just theory. It was a survival guide.

Transformations Women Who Run With The Wolves Forced Upon Me

1. The Forbidden Room is Where Your Power Lies

Bluebeard warns his bride "Don’t open that door", but the key always bleeds. Truth cannot be hidden.

We often are labeled as crazy because we feel things. We have intuition. But we were told not to use it. So we ignore red flags ("Don’t be dramatic"). We silence that voice within us that knows better. And this book teaches that your intuition is the key — use it!

2. Abusers Fear Women Who Remember Their Names

The many tales in the book reveal how toxic men sever women from their intuition and their powers. They hunt women who reclaim their autonomy.

That night where my ex showed up, I understood that he didn’t just hate my strength — he was terrified of it.

3. The Bones of the Lost Sisters Are Your Compass

In the Vasalisa story, the skull (wisdom of the dead) lights the way. It talks about the transmission of women’s intuitive power from mother to daughter, across generations. This profound intuitive ability — comprising inner sight, inner hearing, inner perception, and inner knowledge — is lightning-fast and essential for deep wisdom. But, true intuition awakens when cultivate inner vigilance and instinct. The journey requires confronting solitude, discernment, and the natural deaths of outdated psychic structures.

4. Grief is Not a Problem to Solve—It’s a River to Wade

In La Llorona chapter, we understand that tears are not weakness — they’re a baptism.

And this grief is not only about the people that have left us, but also for the parts of our inner self that we had to let go. I remember sobbing for hours in the shower. Not the pretty tears. The ugly, snotty, wolf-howling grief for the self I’d abandoned to please others. We need to grieve to move on!

5. To Stay Alive, You Must Run With the Pack (You Were Never Meant to Run Alone)

Estés’ stories are passed woman-to-woman, like the old midwives handing down birth-knowledge.

Lone wolves die faster. "Find your pack — the ones who smell like your kin". Seek out women who howl instead of whisper. They'll be your true family on this earth.

This Book is a War Manual for Modern Women That

✔ Are recovering from gaslighting ("Was I too sensitive?")

✔ Feel disconnected from their instincts

✔ Anyone who craves stories as medicine

✔ Seekers ready to meet their untamed self

This book didn’t "fix" me. It reassembled me. Like La Loba singing over the bones, it reminded me: What they called dead in you was only dormant.