It was in Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book, Women Who Run With Wolves, where I first heard the term “life-death-life cycles”. A concept so aptly describing the cyclical nature of a woman’s need to live out an aspect of her self, then let it die, only to rebirth into a new and truer expression. And since I’ve become acquainted with the term, it has served as an orienting reminder when the cycle begins again in my life. And boy does it return. Again. And again. And again. 🌀 Sometimes it begins when I