ReWild Your Child - ReWild Yourself

01/12/2026

Mothering is the single most difficult while simultaneously most rewarding thing most women will ever do 💜

01/09/2026

ReWild your mind space and see what grows...

"The mind is akin to a growing garden.

It doesn't matter if you like a wild garden or a neat garden, what's important is that you regularly observe it, and take a wander through it to see if for instance there is a vine strangling the growth of a tree (negative thought taking over) or a spikey thorn bush (a painful issue) that needs to be pulled out.

Your garden might need a bit of clearing (journalling)
or some watering (gentle meditation or a mindful practice of some sort) to help it along.

Be the loving caretaker of your garden.


(c) O. Nightsky
(Art: Igor Morski)

01/08/2026

What have you and your family consumed today?

01/06/2026

Anxiety is epidemic and food is medicinal !

“Probiotic-rich fermented foods like sauerkraut are potent tools for reducing anxiety.

How does it work?

By strengthening the gut-brain connection.

Emerging research into the gut-brain axis suggests that the bacteria found in fermented staples like German sauerkraut play a vital role in mental health. Specific probiotic strains, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium longum, act as miniature chemical factories within the digestive tract.

These microbes produce neuroactive compounds such as GABA, a calming neurotransmitter, and serotonin, a key mood regulator. By signaling the brain through the nervous system, these bacteria help mitigate the physiological and psychological symptoms of stress and anxiety from the inside out.

Clinical trials indicate that consistent consumption of these beneficial bacteria can lead to measurable improvements in mood within a four-to-eight-week window. However, while the impact of these psychobiotics is significant, medical professionals stress that they are a supportive dietary measure rather than a standalone replacement for traditional therapy or medication. Integrating probiotic-rich foods into a balanced lifestyle offers a proactive way to support cognitive health, providing a natural boost to the body's ability to manage complex emotional states.”

source: Wallace, C. J., & Milev, R. The effects of probiotics on depressive symptoms in humans: a systematic review. Annals of General Psychiatry.

01/06/2026

Winter is dreamtime.

Time to plant the seeds of our intentions in our consciousness.

It's ok if we wait to act until later.

Rest and tune into the seasonal flow ❄

01/04/2026

Get your kids involved when they're young!

Benefits = family time, life-time skills, real nutrition, reduce chemical exposure that leads to illness and unwanted behaviors

Watch your health levels rise up too 🌀

01/03/2026

What a great idea from The Barefoot Mom!

ReWild your kiddos by getting them outside to explore their wild neighbors and the ever changing array of visitors to your backyard or local park 💚

One of my family's favorite winter nature study activities is hunting for animal tracks. Tracks are especially easy to spot in the snow or mud, making this an ideal time of year for this activity. If you'd like to learn more about animal tracks and how to ID them, check out the following resources and activities:

•Online animal track database:
https://naturetracking.com

•Animal Track Detective video from SciShow Kids:
https://youtu.be/Xz02S-CizAU?si=eRp2drSFCCLKac3l

•Identifying Animal Tracks video from Nature Reliance School:
https://youtu.be/Oov9ZF9UwtY?si=Zg-kMFqaXq3GYOQk

•Make an Animal Track Trap:
If you don't have snow or mud to hunt for tracks in, try setting up an animal track trap. Cover a large tray or a small section of your yard with damp sand. Add a little bit of bait like bird seed or some cat food and leave it overnight. Check your track trap in the morning to see if any animals visited and left behind tracks.

•Animal Track Cast Activity:
You can make casts of tracks that you come across with plaster of paris. Check out this link for tips and instructions:
https://frugalfun4boys.com/how-to-make-a-mold-of-animal-tracks-with-plaster-of-paris

12/27/2025

Enjoy the calm the snow brings❄️

12/21/2025

Welcoming the return of longer days 🌞
Remember that light always powers over darkness and love is stronger than hate ♥️

12/19/2025

While the image below is somewhat true, here's the rest of the story....

Gingerbread itself is ancient — long before Christianity — and spiced cakes shaped like humans or animals were used in pre-Christian European folk rituals.
Many pagan cultures baked “figured breads” or “winter biscuits” shaped like people during solstice festivals to:

*honor ancestral spirits

*embody deities or protective figures

*offer symbolic “sacrifice” without harming animals

*celebrate the turning of the year

So the concept of edible human-shaped ritual cookies definitely predates Christianity.

The actual gingerbread man as we know him (hard cookie, decorated, men-shaped) seems to have roots in 16th-century Europe, especially in:

*Germany (Lebkuchen men sold at winter markets)

*England (Queen Elizabeth I famously served gingerbread men decorated as her courtiers)

These later Christian-era gingerbread traditions absorbed older pagan/folk customs around solstice celebrations, ancestor offerings, and protective charms.

🌿 So the truth is:

Gingerbread men didn’t officially originate from paganism, but the idea of baking human-shaped ritual cookies did — and gingerbread men are an evolution of that older folk magic.

12/18/2025

I’ve found homeschooling to be a very supportive way to develop free thinking.

12/16/2025

Rewilding the Story of Santa 🌲✨

Before Santa became a mascot for shopping season, he was something very different.

He was the winter shaman — the one who traveled between worlds, brought back healing, blessings, and wisdom, and reminded the community of their connection to nature and the ancestors. His “gifts” were soul gifts: guidance, joy, protection, abundance.

Over time, the sacred roots of this figure were stripped away, reshaped by empire and commercialism. But the old symbols still speak if we listen.

The evergreen tree we bring inside each winter was once honored as the Tree of Life — a reminder of endurance, protection, and the eternal cycles of nature.
The ornaments were ancestral offerings.
The light was the promise of returning sun.
The green man / winter father archetype carried wisdom from the old world about reciprocity, generosity, and living in right relationship with the land.

Somewhere along the way, we cut down the tree but forgot the meaning.

Yet the ritual survived because the sacred can’t be fully erased.

Now, in a time of ecological unraveling, we have a chance to rewild our traditions:

🌲 Choose a living tree or sapling.
🌱 Learn its story.
🕯️ Make the season about connection, not consumption.
🌍 Plant it in the new year as an offering to the Earth and the next generation.
🧡 Tell the old stories again — stories of nature as alive, conscious, and in relationship with us.

Rewilding isn’t about recreating the past.
It’s about remembering what we are:
a species in a living, breathing world that needs our care as much as we need its wisdom.

May this season be a return to meaning, reciprocity, and reverence.

Rewild your traditions.
Rewild your winter.