“Many women drive their relationship to soul as if it were not a very important instrument. Like any instrument of value, it needs shelter, cleansing, oiling, and repair. Otherwise, like a car the relationship sludges up, causes deceleration in a woman’s daily life, causes her to use up enormous energy for the simplest tasks, and finally busts down, out on heart break ridge, away from town and telephone. Then it is a long, long walk back home.” ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes; Women Who Run With the Wolves. (more…)