WILD HUMAN Wellness

03/24/2026

WISDOM DROP - SPRING SERIES
New Growth - The Art of Becoming
🦋Emergence🦋

A few days ago was the Spring Equinox - the moment when day and night found perfect balance. Equal light, equal dark. A turning point where winter’s grip loosens and the earth begins her slow unfurling toward longer sun exposure, warmth and growth.

For months many of us have been wintering - moving inward, resting in the dark, lots of cozying and quiet evenings in with movies and music. That container was essential for the season. And now, something is shifting where you might notice your body is responding.
You might be feeling restless. A pull toward something we often call spring fever! An urge to begin, to create, to emerge from wherever you’ve been hibernating and spend more time outside.
This is emergence. The slow, tender process of coming out of dormancy and becoming visible again.

In nature, emergence isn’t dramatic. Seeds don’t explode from the soil. They push through gradually, carefully, feeling their way toward light. Buds don’t burst open all at once - they swell, soften, and unfurl petal by petal.

Your own personal emergence works the same way. Whatever’s been germinating in you during the dark months - the ideas, the shifts, the parts of yourself that are ready to be seen - they’re not meant to arrive fully formed and ready to burst forth! They’re meant to unfold slowly, tentatively, finding their way.
You might be feeling the pull to emerge while simultaneously feeling uncertain. “Am I ready? What if I’m not ready? What if what’s emerging isn’t what I thought it would be?” “Do I even know what is emerging and how it’s showing up in my life?”

That uncertainty is also part of the process. Emergence requires a level of vulnerability and willingness to step in, even if it’s your pinky toe. New growth is tender. It needs protection, patience, gentle tending. You can’t force yourself to bloom faster by willing it. You can only create conditions where growth becomes possible in whatever way that aligns for you.

So if you’re feeling the invitation to step out of dormancy - to begin something, to show up differently, to let something new become visible - the invitation is to honour that pull. And if you’re feeling tender, uncertain, not quite ready - honor that too.
Spring teaches us that emergence happens in its own time. Not when we think we should be ready, but when the conditions align and something inside us says “now”, and as always moving at the pace of trust.

This week: Wisdom Drops about new growth, vulnerability, and the sacred art of becoming. Tomorrow: The Tenderness of New Growth

If this resonates and you’re curious about working together, reach out.
www.wildhumanwellness.ca
wild.human.wellness24@gmail.com

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

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03/16/2026

WISDOM DROP — The Intention: Love

I recently read an article about an older woman who apologized to their adult child, not for doing something wrong, but for doing everything they knew how to do — and only later understanding the consequences to their child.
That one landed for me, especially as a mom of adult children.
So many of us were raised by people who showed up every single day. Who worked hard, who sacrificed, who kept everything running. And who also — without ever meaning to — handed us an entire operating system for how to move through the world. And I could see myself in this article in all the ways I had intentions of loving my children, and inadvertently causing harm. That’s a tough one. Sometimes it’s not ONLY about untangling the web of “what happened to me”, but also untangling the web of “what happened to you”.

Things like:
Don’t make a scene.
Be grateful — other people have it worse.
Love means showing up, not falling apart.
And whatever you do… don’t need too much.
And so so many others… some wounds deeper than others.

None of it was handed down with malice. Most of it came wrapped in tremendous love, the kind that wanted to protect us, prepare us, make us strong enough for a challenging world.
And some of it did exactly that in an adaptive behavioural way. And some of it became the thing we’re still quietly untangling at 35, at 52, at 67.

The “don’t make a scene” that became not knowing how to advocate for yourself.
The “be grateful” that became not being able to name when something genuinely hurt you.
The “love means showing up” that became running yourself into the ground and calling it devotion.
The “don’t need too much” that became a body so armoured it forgot what rest felt like.

This isn’t about blame or shame. Our parents inherited it too. And theirs before them. Long unbroken lines of humans doing their absolute best with what they were handed.
But we live in a time now where we get to ask the question they maybe never could:
What did I receive that truly serves me — and what am I still carrying that needs to be released and replaced?
That question isn’t an accusation. It’s an act of love. For yourself. For your children. For the lineage moving forward.

So I’ll ask with curiosity and compassion:

What’s one thing you were taught about love, strength, or emotion that you’ve never actually stopped to question, but you know there’s just something about it that isn’t working?

🌿 If that question opens something in you and you want to explore more — that’s exactly the kind of curiosity I hold space for. Come find me at wildhumanwellness.ca. Or wild.human.wellness24@gmail.com
Until next time, may you walk wild and free.
— Michelle, PHC, CSE

03/12/2026

01/23/2026

01/22/2026

WISDOM DROP - Anger as Medicine
Let’s talk about anger - and the ways we’ve been taught to fear it, suppress it, or wield it as the only acceptable emotion depending on our gender.
For women and femmes, anger has been stolen. We’ve been conditioned to believe that “nice girls don’t get angry.” That rage makes us difficult, unstable, too much. We’ve learned to swallow it, smile through it, redirect it inward where it becomes depression, anxiety, chronic pain in our bodies.
But anger isn’t a flaw. It’s information. It’s boundary energy. It tells us what needs protecting, what’s been violated, what we’re no longer willing to tolerate.
When women reclaim their anger - their roar, their NO - they reclaim their power. The rage that’s been suppressed doesn’t disappear when we ignore it. It lives in our bodies, creating havoc in our nervous systems, our relationships, our sense of self.
For men and masculine-identifying folks, the teaching has been different but equally limiting. Anger has been the only socially acceptable emotion. Sadness becomes anger. Fear becomes anger. Grief, vulnerability, tenderness - all of it gets converted into rage because that’s what’s permitted.
This cultural permission to express anger as the default emotion creates its own violence - internal and external. When anger becomes the mask for every other feeling, there’s no room for the full range of what it means to be human.
Here’s what I know from working somatically with emotion: anger is medicine for all of us when we know how to work with it consciously.
It’s not about suppressing it or exploding with it. It’s about learning to feel it in your body, to understand what it’s protecting, to move the energy without causing harm to yourself or others.
Anger tells the truth. It says “this is not okay” when something violates your boundaries, your values, your sense of safety. When we deny ourselves access to that information - or when it’s the only information we can access - we lose connection to our wholeness.
What if we could reclaim anger as the powerful, clarifying force it actually is? What if women could rage without apology? What if men could cry without converting it to fury? What if we all had permission to feel the full spectrum of what moves through us?
The work is learning to be with anger somatically - to let it move, to listen to what it’s saying, to honor the energy without letting it control us. To understand that suppressed anger and explosive anger are both responses to the same cultural wound: the belief that our full emotional experience isn’t acceptable.
Your anger is allowed. Your boundaries are allowed. Your voice is allowed.
I’m a Professional Holistic Counselor, Life Coach and Somatic Educator on Vancouver Island. I work collaboratively with those who wish to experience expressive therapies and nature-based healing. If you’re looking for support that unearths your body’s wisdom and helps you reclaim the full range of your emotional experience, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca
Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

01/14/2026

WISDOM DROP - The Uncoiling
I'd like to offer something into this space today - a reflection on timing, and what we tell ourselves about being "too late."
What if there are those of you feeling that sense of being behind, of missing the timeline?

When we reach a certain age, we look at the milestones we've reached and the ones we haven't. And many times, we focus on what we haven't achieved because there's a societal expectation attached to those markers.

Right now, I'm noticing something I call the uncoiling - that uncomfortable space where who we were doesn't quite fit anymore, but who we're becoming hasn't fully emerged yet. It's like our old skin is loosening. It can feel itchy, restrictive and uncertain. And the world around us is loud with messages about pushing through, setting goals, making things happen. What if this moment is actually inviting us into shedding?

I've spent years learning from life - from its beautiful messiness, its unexpected turns & its invitations to see things differently. I'm moving into what I recognize as my Wild Crone phase, carrying perspective and depth earned from truly living, from paying attention, from falling time after time and allowing life to fill me with learned wisdom.

I would like to offer you this perspective from a place of compassion: you are not behind. You're not too late. You showed up to the game and that is what counts. Life unfolds differently for each of us. What matters is the perspective we gain, the depth we cultivate, the ways we learn to see ourselves that feel authentic and true.
So if you're feeling the uncoiling - the discomfort of transformation, the restlessness that comes with outgrown patterns - maybe you're exactly where you need to be.

The invitation right now is simply to let yourself shed what no longer serves. You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to be present, authentic, be curious about what's emerging.
Move at the pace of trust.

I'm a Professional Holistic Counselor, Life Coach and Somatic Educator. I work collaboratively with those who wish to experience expressive therapies and nature-based healing. If you're looking for support that unearths your body's wisdom, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.