In my last letter, I wrote about the Good Girl as a crucial part of the inner cage that we need to dismantle in order to claim the wildness and freedom that we long for. (You can read that here.) […]
The Inner Cage of the Good Girl Archetype
I have spent the last decade of my life on a quest: a quest to unearth and claim my WILD. As I wrote in my story about moving back to the ‘burbs, the first half of my quest was a […]
I Reclaimed My Wild and Moved to the Suburbs
For much of my young adult life, the suburbs represented everything that I did not want to be or become. Conformist Cookie cutter Conservative Banal Downright boring As a teenager, I could not wait to get out of Plano, the […]
Reclaiming My Wild Rhythm: A Check In
This was my intention at the beginning of the year. With the exception of intermittent spurts of activity (like moving back to Dallas in July), that rhythm has been much slower than in previous years. With less of the external […]
Courting Your Wild Feminine
To feel the wildness you long for, to find the truth that you want to speak and the wisdom that you want to own, you have to reclaim the feminine. But she doesn’t respond well to demands or orders or […]
Who Were You Before You Became the Good Girl?
Who were you before you became the good girl? Before you inadvertently picked up the voice of the patriarchy and believed it to be your own? Before you were taught who you were allowed to be, what you were allowed […]
A Story About Coming Back To Life
Last February, as I was coming in from the yard, something caught the corner of my eye. My sweet little Kimberly Queen Fern. (I have since named her Frannie. Frannie the Fern. It brings me great joy.) For some reason […]
When to Bloom and When Is It Too Soon?
The Intersection of Visibility, Confidence, and Competence This upcoming weekend we are dancing with the theme of VISIBLE in my Qoya class, and it has had me thinking about this idea of visibility and how it interrelates to both confidence […]
My Issue with Affirmations
I am not a big fan of affirmations, y’all. Most of the time, they just don’t do it for me. One of my biggest wounds has been around embodiment, and healing the deep rift between my mind and my […]
Attuning to the Wild Rhythms
2018 was my year of the sacred no. I worked on establishing and upholding boundaries with my time and energy. I learned how to pause before responding or automatically saying yes to something I would later regret. 2018 was a […]