The Sacred and the Soul,
The Wise and the Wild,
They live in the light and also in the dark.
When we meet the Dark with reverent curiosity,
The Dark reveals a way home.

We can unconsciously create a world of suffering through obsessive avoiding or clinging because we are afraid of what is in the shadows of our past, our shame, our bodies, etc.

This avoidance and clinging can manifest in many ways: trauma responses, eating disorders, loss of creativity, feeling down or depressed, feeling restless or anxious, confusion, lack of sense of self or connection with one’s intuition or body, etc.

Safety is not about eliminating what we fear, but learning to lovingly and creatively interact with our shadows.

I help people meet, acknowledge the presence of, and integrate the parts of themselves that have been repressed, left behind, or fallen into shadow because of fear, shame or trauma and return to aliveness.

You might think of this as a reclamation of the Wild Woman / Man / Being Archetype.

To reclaim this archetype is to remember and reinhabit the parts of ourselves that were silenced, trained, or softened to fit other people’s expectations. It’s not about becoming reckless or abandoning responsibility; it’s about restoring an inner authority that carries fierce tenderness, intuitive clarity, and an embodied sense of freedom.

Key elements of reclamation

• Naming what was lost: Identify how cultural messages, family roles, or trauma encouraged you to suppress spontaneity, rage, desire, or unruly creativity. Give those constricted parts language and witness them without shame.

• Re-learning embodiment: Practice simple, repeated experiences that reconnect you to your body’s wisdom—walking in nature, slow breathwork, unstructured movement, or labor that uses your hands. The body remembers what the mind may have erased.

• Setting boundaries born of integrity: The Wild Being is not boundary-less. It protects its time, energy, and truth. Learn to refuse what undermines your wholeness and to say yes to what enlarges it.

• Honoring cyclical rhythms: Attend to cycles—daily, seasonal, emotional. Allow activity and rest, expansion and contraction, grief and celebration to have their ordained turns without self-judgment.

• Reclaiming desire and creativity: Let desire be a compass rather than a command. Create with curiosity and without perfectionism. Small acts of play and risk rebuild confidence in following inner promptings.

• Cultivating relational authenticity: Practice showing up as you are. This includes being vulnerable, expressing anger or longing clearly, and choosing connection that respects mutual aliveness.

Practical steps to begin

1. Ritualize a short daily check-in: Ask—What needs tending in my body? What wants to be expressed today?

2. Schedule weekly time for unstructured wildness: a solo walk, a messy creative session, or a night without plans.

3. Create small boundary experiments: decline one obligation that drains you; shorten a meeting; say no without over-explaining.

4. Track one cycle for a month: mood, energy, appetite, dreams. Notice patterns and allow actions to align.

5. Find a witness: a therapist, mentor, or circle that can hold your emerging edges without pathologizing them.

Common resistances and how to work with them

• Fear of being judged or rejected: Start small and practice with people or spaces made safe for experimentation.

• Confusion between “wild” and “harmful”: Use ethics and empathy as guides. Reclaimed wildness is responsible and relational.

• Shame from past attempts: Treat setbacks as data, not indictment. Reclamation is iterative.

A closing note

Reclaiming the Wild Woman/Man/Being is a practice of returning to a fuller truth of yourself. It asks for patience, accountability, and courage. Over time, you’ll likely find that this archetype doesn’t make you less relational or disciplined—it makes you more alive, creative, and steady in your commitments.My speciality is working with those who desire healing and to expand, embody and express themselves more fully. Most of the people I work with desire deeper intimacy and truth in their partnership, or they crave a deeper sense of connection to themselves, their intuition, Spirit, or their creative expression. Many are at what I would call at a threshold. Or an initiation. Or a crossroads. They know that who they are, or the relationship that they have been in, or the career they are dedicated to, or the roles that they play and life they inhabit is not a “big enough container” for who they are becoming. I support them in integrating the deeper, repressed, and sometimes wounded aspects of themselves as a way to cross the threshold and step into their next phase of being.

This is a re-membering of under-nourished, repressed parts. We peel away the beliefs, armor, and skins that may have once protected and supported you, but are now suffocating the Truth of who you are. This is a process of re-memering dismembered parts. Of landing more at home in yourself, as more of your pure, true, potent, essence…Freeing the wild self.

I am not really going to help you fix or change anything.

What I will do…

I will listen for the truth of who you are becoming.

I will help you remember who you truly are.
Before you got scared, hurt, or busy. Before you forgot.
Before shame grabbed ahold of you.

This work is about you being the Wild Essence that is expressed as you.