WILD HUMAN Wellness

01/10/2026

WISDOM DROP - Day 4 - What Limbo Asks Of Us

What might this limbo time be asking ofyou right now?

It could be asking you to become still.

This is the phase of clearing, decluttering, letting go, and being present with what’s actually true right now. Sometimes there’s what you wish was true, an others there’s what you think should be true. What if you simply gave permission to whatever is true to have space in your heart ?

Limbo invites you to look at what no longer serves you - the relationships that drain you, the patterns that keep you small, the beliefs you inherited, the clutter in your physical space that reflects clutter in your inner world.
It’s asking: What are you carrying that desires to be released going forward?

This is a gentle nudging away from productivity or self-improvement. This is about recognizing and honouring transformation. It’s about creating space - in your home, in your schedule, in your nervous system - for what might be whispering to emerge when the season actually shifts.

Some practical invitations for this limbo time:

What if you cleared one space in your home this week? Not to be “organized,” but to let your space breathe and shed alongside you.

What if you sat with the question: What part of my identity am I still clinging to out of safety, even though it no longer feels authentic ?

What if you gave yourself permission to be “unfinished right now - unclear, in-between”?

Limbo is preservation. It’s integration. It’s the quiet work of alchemizing everything the Snake year taught you before the Horse energy asks you to move.

I’d like to remind you thay you’re not behind. You’re not stuck. You’re exactly where the cycle asks you to be.

Tomorrow: Day 5 - Tending Your Home Before the Horse

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

01/08/2026

WISDOM DROP - Day 3 - Don’t Gallop in Dead Skin

There’s a teaching I want to share with you: if you try to gallop now, you’re galloping in dead skin.

The Fire Horse year arrives on February 17th - and Horse energy is fast, loud, filled with movement, action, and momentum. After the introspective, transformative Snake year, Horse will feel like an invitation to finally move, to charge forward, to make things happen.

But here’s what matters: if you rush into that energy before you’ve finished shedding what the Snake year revealed needs to go, you’ll be carrying dead weight. Old patterns. Outgrown identities. Beliefs that no longer serve you.

It feels itchy. Heavy. Restrictive.

The world around you might already be galloping - New Year energy is loud with productivity, goal-setting, and pushing forward. You might feel pressure to match that pace, to have your vision board done, your plans laid out, your momentum building.

But what if rushing now actually weakens your footing for when the Horse does arrive?

This limbo time - this space between Snake and Horse - is asking you to recommit to the shed. To look at what no longer serves you, what drains your energy, what you’re no longer aligned with. To consciously let it uncoil and release.

The invitation is to finish what the Snake started. Clear your space. Declutter your life - physically, emotionally, energetically. Let your home breathe. Let yourself rest. Let it shed.

When you meet the Horse in strength rather than haste, you’ll be ready for the momentum. But not yet. Not while you’re still uncoiling.

Stay with the shedding. Trust this pause.

Tomorrow: Day 4 - What Limbo Asks Of Us

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

01/07/2026

WISDOM DROP - Day 2 - The Uncoiling

I’d like to create space arpund what’s actually happening in this limbo space we’re in.

The Snake teaches us about transformation through shedding. When a snake prepares to shed its skin, it doesn’t happen all at once. There’s a period where the old skin loosens, becomes cloudy, stops fitting quite right. The snake becomes vulnerable, sometimes irritable. It needs to rest more, move differently.

This is the uncoiling.

You might be feeling it too - that restlessness mixed with exhaustion. The sense that who you were doesn’t fit anymore, but who you’re becoming hasn’t fully emerged yet. Things that used to work for you might feel restrictive now. Relationships, routines, beliefs, even the way you move through your day might feel transitional.

This is the shedding process.

After a year of internal alchemy - of facing your venom, your shadows, the parts of yourself that needed to be integrated - the Snake year has done its work. Now comes the loosening. The letting go of what’s been outgrown.

Your body knows this inherent wisdom. Your nervous system is in this transition whether your mind has caught up or not. You might feel unclear about what’s next, and that is presence for this moment.

The invitation here is to trust the uncoiling. To notice what’s loosening without trying to control it or beinf attached to an outcome. Perhaps, allow yourself to be in-between - no longer who you were, not yet who you’re becoming.

This is the sacred pause that makes transformation possible.

Tomorrow: Day 3 - Don’t Gallop in Dead Skin

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

01/06/2026

This week our wisdom drops start a day later as i have started a new job! And i will continuously be building my private practice as I grow 🌺

WISDOM DROP - Day 1 this week - The Alchemy of Limbo
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I’d like to invite you into a different way of thinking about this time of year - one that might feel more true to your body than what the calendar tells you.

What if January 1st isn’t actually nature’s New Year?

For most of human history, time was kept by the sun, the land, and the seasons - not by institutions or administrators. The year began in spring, when life actually returns to the earth. March 20-21, the Spring Equinox, is when night and day find balance and creation resets itself. That’s when nature says “begin again.”

January wasn’t always the first month. It was moved there by Rome, named after Janus, the two-faced god of doorways and transitions. One face looking backward, one looking forward. Rome shifted the calendar to align with their needs - administration, taxation, military planning. Not the needs of the living world.

What we celebrate as “New Year” is really a fiscal year - the opening of ledgers, not the opening of lives.

Right now, we’re in what some call the Alchemy of Limbo.

We’re in the space between what’s ending and what hasn’t yet begun. Energetically, we’re still in the Year of the Wood Snake (until Lunar New Year on February 17th). This is shedding time. Uncoiling time. The pause before the Fire Horse arrives with its fast, active, momentum-filled energy.

The world is loud right now with talk of resolutions, vision boards, and reinvention. But what if your body is asking for something different? What if you’re meant to be in the deep exhale right now - clearing, releasing, becoming still?

You might be feeling like you’re no longer who you were, but not yet who you’re becoming. That’s not being stuck. That’s limbo. That’s the sacred in-between.
And it gently asks to be honored, not rushed through.

Tomorrow: Day 2 - The Uncoiling

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free ⭐️

12/30/2025

Dear wild seekers, you’ve been asking me who BARE BRANCHES is for, and I’d like to share what I’ve been noticing.
This gathering calls to women who are:

🌲 Sensing an invitation to move at a gentler, more intentional pace
🍂 Feeling a stirring within - something that yearns to be released or transformed
💫 Curious about what “wintering” might illuminate in your own journey
🌑 Drawn to honor the rhythms of nature rather than override them
💎 Trusting that slowing down might hold wisdom you haven’t yet discovered
🔄 Open to exploring ceremony and ritual as pathways to deeper knowing
❄️ Wondering what it might feel like to give yourself full permission to rest

If any of this resonates within you - even quietly - I’d be honored to explore this season with you.
BARE BRANCHES creates space for women to gather and honor their wintering together, held in gentleness and witnessed without judgment.

Our next gathering: January 04th, 2026 online with Zoom at 12pm PST

Or reach out for a discovery call - I’m here to listen.
We move at the pace of trust… simply.

12/29/2025

Welcome to Bare Branches, an invitation into circle with others who are also curious about exploring something slower within. This is an invitation into circle, into intentional community where we can slow down into the cold season, creating a fire within that is fuelled by creativity, and nourishing self-care.

Have you noticed the whisper of an inner calling to slow down, or perhaps feeling overwhelmed at the pace you’re currently running? If you’re sensing this, there’s a chance you could be in your wintering season.
There is no cause for any alarm… this is simply your body giving you feedback that it might be time for intentional dormancy; a time to honor slower pace and to allow something lie fallow.
Nature teaches us this every year in her season of bare branches. Trees release their leaves. Bears retreat to their dens. Seeds rest in dark soil. They trust the cycle. They know wintering is an essential preparation for what comes next, and there is always a “next”.

I’d like to extend this heartfelt invitation to gather, dear sisters… to converge in a circle of women who aspire an exploration into intentional wintering.

Through gentle ceremony, earth-connected practices, and witnessing each other with compassion, we’ll create space to:
✨ Honor the season of darkness into light
✨ investigate what yearns to be released
✨ Practice resting without guilt or shame
✨ Plant seeds for what aspires to emerge
✨ Remember we are part of nature’s rhythms

WHAT: This is BARE BRANCHES: The Sacred Art of Wintering
WHEN: we begin January 04th, 2026
WHERE: Online @ 12:00pm PST via ZOOM

If this stirs something in you - even if you’re unsure or feeling anxious about making time for it - I’d be honored to hold space for you in a 15 minute discovery call to delve deeper into how this connection can support your journey.

Comment WINTER or DM me for details. 🌲

12/21/2025

WISDOM DROP - Day 7 - Grief Week

This week we’ve explored grief together - and today the invitation is to talk about something essential: how to hold space for your own grief.

Holding space for yourself means creating an internal environment where your grief is allowed to exist without judgment, without rushing, without needing to be different than it is.

This might look like pausing when grief rises rather than pushing it down. It sounds like self-compassion with self-talk like, “This is hard. This hurts. And that’s okay.” And perhaps it’s like placing a gentle hand on your own heart and breathing with presence.

Holding space for your grief means quieting the inner critic in these moments. You don’t need to fix it, understand it, or make it productive. You just need to be with it - the way you’d sit with a dear friend who’s hurting, without trying to talk them out of their pain.

Sometimes holding space looks like giving yourself permission to cry in the shower, to cancel plans, to sit in silence, to not be okay. Sometimes it’s acknowledging that your grief is a reflection of your love - and love doesn’t have an expiration date.

You can be your own compassionate witness. You can create safety within yourself for what’s real. This is the practice - learning to hold yourself with the same tenderness you’d offer someone you love deeply.

Your grief deserves this kind of holding. And so do you.
If you need support learning how to hold space for yourself, or if you’d like someone to hold space with you as you navigate grief, I’m here. Individual sessions, expressive therapies, somatic work - all ways we can tend what you’re carrying together.

DM me or visit www.wildhumanwellness.ca
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.

Until next time, may you walk wild and free

12/20/2025

WISDOM DROP - Day 7 - Grief Week

This week we’ve explored holiday grief together - and today the invitation is to navigate how to hold space for your own grief.

Holding space for yourself means creating an internal environment where your grief is welcomed to exist without judgment, without rushing, approaching it with compassionate curiosity.

This could be pausing when grief rises rather than pushing it down. It might sound like saying to yourself, “This is hard. This hurts. And that’s okay.” It feels like placing a gentle hand on your own heart and breathing into your truth of what’s alive in the moment.

Holding space for your grief might look like giving yourself permission to cry in the shower, to cancel plans, to sit in silence, to not be okay in the moment. Sometimes it’s acknowledging that your grief is a reflection of your love - and love doesn’t have an expiration date.

You can be your own compassionate witness. You can create safety within yourself for what’s real. This is the practice - learning to hold yourself with the same tenderness you’d offer someone you love.

If you need support learning how to hold space for yourself, or if you’d like someone to hold space with you as you navigate grief, I’m here. Individual sessions, expressive therapies, somatic work - all ways we can tend what you’re carrying together.

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

12/20/2025

WISDOM DROP - Day 6 - Grief Week

How do we actually tend grief in our bodies during winter?

I’d like to offer some somatic and expressive practices that honor both the spiritual and practical aspects of grief - ways to support your nervous system while holding space for what you’re feeling.

When grief feels stuck in your chest: Place both hands on your heart. Breathe slowly, letting your chest rise into your hands. Sometimes grief needs the permission that touch provides - the message that it’s safe to feel what’s there.

When grief needs to move: Let your body shake, sway, or rock. Grief carries energy that sometimes needs physical expression. There is no right or wrong way to do this - just let your body move how it wants to move.

When grief needs a voice: Put on music that matches what you’re feeling - not to change the feeling, but to be with it. Or perhaps you need to make sounds yourself - hum, tone, cry, wail. Taking is good. Crying is better. Sobbing is best.

When grief wants expression: Let your hands move - paint, draw, sculpt. This isn’t about creating perfect art, it’s about letting grief move through your hands onto something outside yourself. No judgment, no “good” or “bad,” just expression.

When you need grounding through the waves: Press your feet firmly into the earth. Feel the ground supporting you. Grief can make us feel untethered, so reconnecting with the ground reminds your system you’re still here, still held.

When you need nature but can’t get outside: Bring nature to you. Hold your hands under running water. Listen to various nature sounds. Look at images of forests or the ocean. Your nervous system responds to nature’s presence even when you can’t physically be in it.

When grief needs witness: Place one hand on your heart, one on your belly. Breathe and simply acknowledge: “This is grief. This is what love looks like when it has nowhere to go.”

These practices aren’t about fixing or rushing your grief. They’re about tending your system while you move through what’s real.

Tomorrow: Day 7 - Holding space for your grief

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

12/19/2025

WISDOM DROP - Day 5 - Grief Week

I’d like to invite you into something that might feel unfamiliar at first: the practice of holding multiple truths at the same time.

What if you didn’t have to choose between what feels like opposites? What if you could be grieving AND grateful? Missing someone deeply AND present with who’s here now? Feeling broken AND somehow knowing you’re always still whole?

These might sound like contradictions, but what if they’re actually the full truth of being human - especially when we’re moving through grief during a season that seems to demand joy, peace and love only? It’s the idea that we must pick one feeling and stick with it.

This new concept comes from something called dialectical thinking - the capacity to hold two seemingly opposite truths without needing to resolve them or choose between them. It’s both a skill we can practice and a spiritual invitation to expand how we hold our experience. In other words… resilience.

Winter models this naturally. Nature herself holds opposites without struggle - dormancy which also creates preparation, death that feeds new life, and darkness that makes space for deep rest. She doesn’t choose one or the other. She holds it all.

Your nervous system can learn this too, gently and at your own pace. It’s not about forcing positivity or bypassing what hurts. It’s about slowly expanding your capacity to hold the fullness of what’s real - the hard AND the beautiful, the grief AND the love that it reveals.

What truths are you holding right now that feel like they shouldn’t be able to exist together? What if they’re both allowed to be true?

Tomorrow: Day 6 - Tending grief somatically

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca

Until next time, may you walk wild and free.

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

WISDOM DROP - Day 4 - Grief Week

Let's talk about what grief actually needs - and here's what i believe to be true: I can't tell you what YOUR grief needs. Only you know that.

This might sound unhelpful for a therapist to be saying, but it's actually the most honest thing I can offer. Because grief has been so heavily scripted by society and culture - timelines for "getting over it," acceptable ways to express it, judgments about what's "too much" or "too long", asking what your grief needs can feel... unusual or uncomfortable.

We've been taught that grief 'should' look a certain way, follow certain stages, resolve within a certain timeframe. That there's a proper face for grief, a right direction it 'should' move, a finish line where you're 'done.'

But here's what I believe, grief is as individual as the person experiencing it. What your grief needs might be completely different from what someone else's grief needs. It could need silence or sound; movement or complete stillness; solitude a witness. And a million other things it could need...

And here's something important: extended grief is real. Grief that lasts more than a year isn't "complicated" or "pathological" - it's simply grief that needs more time. There's no expiration date on loving someone; missing them; or feeling the absence of what was.
Letting go of the 'shoulds', and inviting in curiosity and compassion... what is true for you?

Tomorrow: Day 5 - Holding multiple truths

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, DM me or find me at www.wildhumanwellness.ca
Until next time, may you walk wild and free.