Unleashing your inner WILD....!

 

Yiiippppeeeee, I got my birthday present in the mail. It was a book I have been swooning over for a year or so. Mary Jane Butters' latest " Outpost~ Unleashing your inner WILD! "

 

 

Is this a PERFECT book for me or what......Now wait for some exciting stories from my Glamping in the woods  expeditions or a few adventures of "DIVA only" road trips! I can't wait to make a pot of tea, light a candle and fall dreamily into this book. So what does it mean to you to unleash your inner wild?

I think this term means something different for each person. But, I recently stumbled upon an amazing little blog from Camille Giglio at Woman Rewilding She is the wife of REAL Foodie Chef Franky G of Franks Finest. I have follwed this beautiful lady for sometime now and she has a passion and gift for empowering women back to nature and rewilding themselves. She had this to say: "Some people probably hear the word “rewilding” and think of people taking their clothesoff, taking a walk through the woods, and holding a bow with arrows. I like to think of the ReWilding Journey to be one step at a time. We can all do our best with whatever we have." I think to make realistic changes we need to follow her advice of one small step at a time. My first step in my own journey was to look at food differently. From there it became my environment, home and lifestyle.

So what does Living Wild mean....?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes it wonderfully in herbook Women Who Run With the Wolves.

“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life,one in which the criatura, creature, has innate integrity and healthyboundaries. These words, wild and woman, cause women to remember who they areand what they are about. They create a metaphor to describe the force whichfunds all females. They personify a force that women cannot live without.”

- Women Who Run With the Wolves (by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

What steps have you taken to bring a little wild back into your life......?