Do you remember the moment you glimpsed the life you were meant to embrace?
The dazzling burst of hope and freedom through the cracks of your conditioning and limitations?
That moment when you see something about your life, your situation, another person – and it can never be unseen?
That is the wilding moment: when life shifts, and changes forever.
This is the story of how one woman found her own wilding on a quest in the high desert of New Mexico. It is the story of how she shared that moment with women across the world, and how those women discovered their own wilding moments, writing and sharing their stories, meeting up online, growing themselves and each other.
And it is a rich set of very practical wilding tools, practices and ideas.
’I don’t have to make myself small anymore.’
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Chapter One – What is wilding?17
Story 1 – Happy Christmas19
Story 2 – Finding my environmental voice28
Story 3- Breaking away to beautiful30
Chapter Two – Who am I?35
Chapter Three – Starting my journey39
Story 4 – Wilding woman42
Story 5 – Tasting life on land and sea47
Story 6 – The continuity of sheep53
Story 7 – Be still60
Story 8 – My marvellous year64
Chapter Four – Into the quest67
Chapter Five – My life as a garden75
Story 9 – A journey into the night79
Story 10 – A new dawn81
Chapter Six – Mapping the wilding territory85
Story 11 – Step 293
Chapter Seven – Living on the land104
Story 12 – Wild Birth111
Chapter Eight – Walking the wilding path114
Story 13 – Getting in touch118
Story 14 – And the important thing is…123
Story 15 – Christmas Day126
Story 16 – Now140
Chapter Nine – The white deerskin143
Story 17 – Poetry of an Outsider146
Story 18 – The Cardinal Bird156
Story 19 – Clean Sweep163
Story 20 – My Story – Part I169
Story 21 – My Story – Part 2172
Chapter Ten – Themes of life175
Story 22 – Falling in love again181
Story 23 – My Diagnosis –
in Words….and Music?187
Chapter Eleven – Back in the world189
Story 24 – When my life tipped (1)196
Story 25 – When my life tipped (2)202
Chapter Twelve – The gift of ideas 208
Story 26 – Memories211
Chapter Thirteen – The heart of wilding 217
Story 27 – The Mannequin218
Story 28 – You’re back225
Chapter Fourteen – Wilding stories232
Story 29 – Living and Dying in the Game238
Chapter Fifteen – Wilding Women’s voices 241
Story 30 – A woman’s liberation on Freedom and
Democracy Day in Prague251
Index of story themes253
Appendix – Stories in original French261
Joyeux Noel (Story 1 in English)261
Quand ma vie a basculé (Story 20 in English)263
Quand ma vie a basculé 2 (Story 21 in English)265
Appendix – Wilding women references267
About the Author271