Chapter 13: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.7 Season 2 In this episode we will be exploring: Chapter 13:Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan Story: The Woman With Hair of Gold Topics/Themes: The Death Cult of Secrets -“The keeping of secrets cuts woman off from those who would give her love, succor, and protection” -Jung said, keeping secrets cuts us off from the unconscious” -“But part of the miracle of the wild psyche is that no matter how badly a woman is “killed” no matter how injured, her psychic life continues…” -Sharing and expressing secrets: finding a compassionate friend who can receive your secret -The Scapecoat: documenting our battle scars -“A scapecoat is a coat that details in painting, writing, and with all manner of things pinned and stitched to it all the name-calling a woman has endured in her life, all the insults, all the slurs, all the traumas, all the wounds, all the scars. It is her statement of her experience of being scapegoated” -“It is also a good idea for women to count their ages, not by years, but by battle scars” -“This additional threat, as well as the secret shame itself, causes a woman to carry not one burden but two” -“They allow us to leave the death cult of secrets behind. We can grieve and grieve hard, and come out of it tear-stained, rather than shame-stained. We can come out deepened, fully acknowledged, and filled with new life”