Encountering Your Wild Retreat

Encounter Your Wild Retreats

Story is medicine

The wild woman archetype within a woman’s psyche is an expression of her innate, soulful essence. A representation of the instinctual nature women possess. Many women start off with or lose a sense of self and safety in their environment. Reconnecting with your wildest most primal self can help you regain your essence and power. Women often feel great pressure to keep themselves and their issues a “secret” which can add to the physiological and psychological damage and symptoms of traumatic events. Holding these secrets leads to increased isolation, hyper-vigilance (always being on high alert), and life-altering shame. 

When women share collective experiences with others who have suffered, the sense of overwhelming loneliness and “otherness” slowly disappears. They begin to feel a sense of connectedness and understanding which often leads to learning how to be kind to one’s self. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the Jungian psychoanalyst, described the wild woman in her magnificent work, Women who Run with the Wolves. Here, she exposes the ravages of this disconnection in current women. Furthermore, through stories, myths, and legends, she accompanies women in their need to recover their identification with this archetype. For me, this sacred & psychological text is always one way to guide us to the depth work with women in:

• Reclaiming & embracing wild self

• Recovering creativity & spontaneity

• Connecting to intuition

• Connecting to desire

• Finding your pack

• Learn the Life/Death/Life cycles

The hope of an Encounter Your Wild Retreat is for women to feel connected to themselves, be embodied in a community of other wild women with the intention toward learning how to show up in the world the way they want to rather than how they have been taught to in a loving supportive natural environment. We howl together!!

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves