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03/24/2026

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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

03/12/2026

WISDOM DROP - Acceptance is NOT Allowance

Let’s talk about something that keeps a lot of people stuck: the belief that accepting what happened means allowing it to continue.
When we need to let go of something painful - a betrayal, a loss, harm someone caused - we often wait. Wait for an apology that may never come. Wait for the other person to see what they did. Wait for closure that exists somewhere outside ourselves.

And we can hold onto that pain for a very long time. Years, sometimes. Waiting.
Letting go is hard. I want to name that clearly - it’s not easy, and anyone who tells you to “just let it go” doesn’t understand how deeply pain can live in the body, in the nervous system, in the stories we tell ourselves about what happened.

But here’s what I’ve noticed: one of the most powerful steps toward transformation is moving into acceptance of what is. And this is where confusion happens - because we often believe acceptance means the same thing as allowance.

It doesn’t.

Acceptance isn’t saying “this was okay.” It isn’t permitting the harm to continue. It isn’t tolerating what shouldn’t be tolerated. It isn’t letting someone off the hook or pretending it didn’t hurt.
Acceptance is acknowledging reality. Seeing clearly what is - or what was - so you can move forward. It’s stopping the fight with what already happened and recognizing: this is what’s true. This person is who they are. This situation is what it was.

Allowance, on the other hand, is saying “I’ll keep letting this happen. I’ll stay in this dynamic. I’ll continue to accept harmful behavior because I don’t know how to leave or set boundaries or claim my own freedom.”
The difference matters. Because you can accept that someone hurt you without allowing them continued access to hurt you again. You can accept that you didn’t get the apology you deserved without allowing that to keep you trapped in bitterness. You can accept what happened without allowing it to define your future.

This isn’t simple. I know saying it doesn’t make it easy to believe or practice. There are steps to this process - it’s not a single moment of “letting go.” It’s somatic work. It’s nervous system regulation. It’s untangling the stories. It’s learning what’s yours to carry and what isn’t.
But the outcome? Your freedom.
Freedom from waiting for something outside yourself to give you permission to move forward. Freedom from carrying pain that no longer serves you. Freedom to choose what comes next based on what’s true now, not what you wish had been different then.

Acceptance opens the door. It doesn’t mean you have to walk back into the room where the harm happened. It means you can finally walk through a different door entirely.
If you’re holding onto something - waiting for closure, for an apology, for someone to see what they did - and you’re ready to explore what acceptance (not allowance) might look like for you, I’m here to walk alongside you.

I’m a Professional Holistic Counselor, Life Coach and Somatic Educator on Vancouver Island. I work with compassionate curiosity, meeting you wherever you are, moving at the pace of trust, and exploring what feels possible. If this resonates and you’re curious about working together, reach out.
www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.