“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” LongStoriesIndividualVoiceCommunityLinesBloodStyleCryBabySittingMedicineBonesWideBreadHipsKneesBreastsChairsTouchingPlasticLapSkirtsRobustClansLatinaLong LinesHungariansPocketbooksLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” StoriesIndividualCommunityMedicine Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.” FeelsStoriesUsedSpiritLostConsciousnessMissingHolyTraditionMedicineMagazinesBeing TrueLiftsFeel BetterDescentRadianceLift You Up Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.” NeedsStoriesMedicineStorytelling Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.” StrongerMedicineAvailableWoundsEmptinessTelling The TruthTruthfulRemedyPacks Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.” KnowsShareMedicineHelpful Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
