Clarissa Pinkola Estés calls her the keeper of the Life/Death/Life nature — that ancient rhythm that knows something must end… for something new to live. In Women Who Run With the Wolves, the Skeleton Woman is not a monster to flee, but a teacher to embrace. She shows us that love, creativity, and our own becoming require us to stay present for the full cycle — through death, decay, and the mystery before renewal. “To love means to embrace, and at the same time to withstand, many endings and man