There is a moment in a birthing room that everyone in it recognizes and almost no one names. The woman who was speaking a moment ago has stopped. Her eyes have gone somewhere the rest of us cannot follow, unfocused and turned inward, fixed on a horizon that isn’t in the room. The people who […]
There is a moment in high summer, usually somewhere in the long golden hours of late July, when the year seems to hold its breath. The light is still generous and the days are still warm, yet if you walk out into a field or a garden or even a stretch of roadside gone to
There is a moment, somewhere in the early weeks or months of motherhood, when a woman catches sight of herself in the mirror and does not entirely recognize the person looking back. The face is familiar enough, more tired perhaps, softer or sharper than before, but something behind the eyes has shifted in a way
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The rain had been falling all morning, the kind of steady Pacific Northwest rain that soaks the moss until it glows extra green, and then, at the exact moment we were meant to begin our rewilding session, it stopped. A woman who had traveled to stand on this ground stepped onto the beach, and
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There is a particular kind of self-judgment that haunts a great many women, and it almost always wears the language of failure. You were focused and tireless last week, moving through your work and your mothering and your life with an ease, and now, a handful of days later, that woman seems to have vanished.
There is a particular kind of unraveling that comes for most women at least once in a life, and often more than once. It rarely announces itself. It arrives instead as a slow loss of color, a restlessness that good news cannot soothe, a grief with no obvious cause. You are doing everything you were
If you spend any amount of time in spaces devoted to feminine embodiment, spirituality, or personal growth, it will not be long before you encounter the Wild Woman. She appears in books, workshops, social media posts, and countless inspirational quotes layered over photographs of forests, wolves, and women standing barefoot beneath the moon. She is
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Women are inextricably linked to nature. Just as our earliest ancestors evolved in the primordial sea, we emerge from the watery world of our mothers’ wombs. The moon tugs on those wombs the way She pushes and pulls the ocean tides. We are the outcome of ancient supernovas, connected to both fish and the cosmos.
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