{"product_id":"9781622030729","title":"Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBlessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul \u003cb\u003e“Have You Forgotten? I Am Your Mother. You Are Under My Protection.”\u003c\/b\u003e “There is a promise Holy Mother makes to us,” proclaims Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, “that any soul needing comfort, vision, guidance, or strength can cry out to her, flee to her protection, and Blessed Mother will immediately arrive with veils flying. She will place us under her mantle for refuge, and give us the warmth of her most compassionate touch, and strong guidance about how to go by the soul’s lights.” \u003ci\u003eUntie the Strong Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is Dr. Estés invitation to come together under the shelter of The Mother—whether she appears to us as the Madonna, Our Lady of Guadalupe, or any one of her countless incarnations. In this unforgettable collection of stories, prayers, and blessings, Dr. Estés shares:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Drunkard and the Lady”—a story of unexpected miracles that arise from the mud and soil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Guadalupe is a Girl Gang Leader in Heaven”—a poem of resistance and hope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“No One Too Bad, Too Mean, or Too Hopeless”—the fierce Mother that never gives up on us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Shirt of Arrows”—a love that is invincible no matter how many times we are wounded\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e “The Black Madonna”—she who stands at the juncture between two worlds and protects us as we enter the dark places\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  Why does the face of Our Lady appear in the most humble and unexpected places? Why does she burst forth into every culture no matter how hard authority tries to suppress her? It is because no bonds can restrain the power of her love, nor prevent her from returning to those who need her most. With \u003ci\u003eUntie the Strong Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Estés invites you to encounter the force of Immaculate Love—“So that your memory of Her is renewed, or that the knowledge of her miraculous, fierce, enduring ways is drawn into your heart for the very first time.”  \u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e   First Words\u003ci\u003eOur Ancestral Great Mother\u003c\/i\u003e Opening Blessing:  Totus Tuus, I Belong to You, Blessed Mother   Chapter Two\u003ci\u003eHow the Great Woman Was Erased:  Our Part in Restoring Her\u003c\/i\u003e Untie the Strong Woman   Chapter Three\u003ci\u003eShe Is the Inspiratus for Souls Who Suffer\u003c\/i\u003e The Drunkard and the Lady   Chapter Four\u003ci\u003eIn Humble, Helpless Love with Her\u003c\/i\u003e Guadalupe Is a Girl Gang Leader in Heaven   Chapter Five\u003ci\u003eRise Up!  Even From Bloodshed, Says La Conquista, Our Lady of the Conquered\u003c\/i\u003e Massacre of the Dreamers:  The Maiz Mother   Chapter Six\u003ci\u003e“Shirt of Arrows:” She Teaches Protection of the Vulnerable:  No Exceptions\u003c\/i\u003e The Memorare, Remember!   Chapter Seven\u003ci\u003eThe Uses of Broken-Heartedness, Mater Dolorosa Ever Bends Near \u003c\/i\u003e The Use of the Seven Swords Through the Heart   Chapter Eight\u003ci\u003eMany Kinds of Prisons:  The Last Woman Standing \u003c\/i\u003e “Our Lady Behind the Wall”   Chapter Nine\u003ci\u003eCarrying the Name of the Mother\u003c\/i\u003e A Man Named Mary   Chapter Ten\u003ci\u003eForged in the Fiery Furnace\u003c\/i\u003e The Black Madonna Chapter Eleven\u003ci\u003eNo One Too Bad, Too Mean, or Too Hopeless\u003c\/i\u003e How the Motherfuckers Became the Blessed Mothers   Chapter Twelve\u003ci\u003eNo Racism, No Discrimination, No One Is An “Untouchable”\u003c\/i\u003e The Great Woman Appears to Us Daily   Chapter Thirteen\u003ci\u003eHer Names Without Classic\u003c\/i\u003e Litany of the Mother Road:  Chant of Her Incandescent Names   Chapter Fourteen\u003ci\u003eCompassionate Mother:  Restoring The Soul After Shock\u003c\/i\u003e Post-Abortion Compassion:  “The Children She Got That She Did Not Get”   Chapter Fifteen\u003ci\u003eThe Lasso of Our Lady…For Saving a Life\u003c\/i\u003e The Drowning Man   Chapter Sixteen\u003ci\u003eHolding Fast to the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e God Has No Hands:  Comforting Maria, The Ritual of Pesame   Chapter Seventeen\u003ci\u003eThe Great Mother Inspires the Little Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e The Marys of Mother Africa   Chapter Eighteen\u003ci\u003eRefusing the Holy:  No Room for You Here\u003c\/i\u003e The “Oh Yes, There Is Too Room for You Here” Ritual of La Posada   Chapter Nineteen\u003ci\u003eLetter to the Young Mystics Following Holy Mother\u003c\/i\u003e Our Lady of Guadalupe:  The Path of the Broken Heart   Chapter Twenty\u003ci\u003eLos Inmigrantes, We Are All Immigrants:\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Undousable Creative Fire\u003c\/i\u003e They Tried to Stop Her At the Border   Chapter Twenty-One\u003ci\u003eMi Madre, Tu Madre, La Madre de Ella, La Madre de El, Nuestra Madre:  My Mother, Your Mother, Her Mother, His Mother, Our Mother\u003c\/i\u003e The Truth About How Very Hard it is to Get Into Heaven     Chapter Twenty-Two\u003ci\u003eThat You Be Watched Over and Kept Safe Until We See Each Other Again\u003c\/i\u003e Closing Blessing:  Have You Forgotten?  I Am Your Mother   Chapter Twenty-Three\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Words About the Mother\u003c\/i\u003e Some of the Ways Other Creative Souls Understand Relationship With Mother   Chapter Twenty-Four\u003ci\u003eAymen, Aymen, Aymen…And A Little Woman\u003c\/i\u003e The Highest Prayer","brand":"Sounds True, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018601382128,"sku":"9781622030729","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781622030729_p0.jpg?v=1769904769","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781622030729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}