Wild Heart Therapies

09/18/2024

The amber body of each newly descending leaf
is a reminder that change is afoot
and its spiraling head is peaking around time's corner.

I wonder if they dream of spring as they hit the street curb?

We all are burdened by expectation
and fail to see the purpose of our resurrection.

Hearts weighed down by loss, pull on
our aching back and narrow our shoulders.

It kills us, this resistance to transformation,
submits us to the patterns of our preformation.

What is it that keeps us from the wonders of who we could be?

What's discouraging us from leaning into the discomfort of shedding expectation to make way for regeneration?

Just because pain is familiar, doesn't mean it's your home.

Put on the spiraling helm of change and plant your feet in the soil beneath you.
Grant passage to the nourishment laying under your toes and
send love to your wild heart
courageously voyaging this journey of hope.

09/12/2024

Mycelium and mushrooms are growing in popularity in American culture. This new collective awareness is curious to me.

What could be the gift Fungi offer to us?

There are a wide variety of fungi sprouting along the sidewalks, within the forests and nature preserves. They tend to come after rainfalls and have powerful networks of mycelium distributing nutrients all throughout the soil. When fruiting mushrooms arrive at the surface, it is a sign that the soil is receiving the care it needs.

Mycologist Paul Stamets (2005) has researched specific kinds of fungi that break down toxins like pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, giving restoration back to the microbial life in soil.* This is called Mycoremediation and it has inspired me to reimagine how our bodies metabolize grief.
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Fungi contribute regenerative properties to create healthy biodiversity. They show up in the liminal space of an ecosystem; the space between death and new life. Surely this is the same sacred space where healing happens.
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Our hearts grow weary with the suffering of the world. Grief, bitterness, and sorrow pollute our hearts and we train our bodies to hold in the toxins leaving joy, life, and imagination shriveled in despair.

But imagine a mist of spores grounding themselves in the soul of your heart, risking hope amongst the toxins of your trauma. Sprouting from your heart's canals, the mushrooms take the grief, bitterness, and sorrow and give them a home in their bodies.
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At Wild Heart Therapies, the Fungal Heart symbolizes that when our heart's endure the toxins of trauma there is capacity for new life. With proper care, we can hold and grow through the losses we suffer and create ourselves anew. We can learn how to grow with the gifts of our grief.
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There is a wild ecosystem around you also grieving. Species each day are in threat of dying, leaving forests and other landscapes compensating for the loss of their beloveds. The forests grieve with us as we too adapt to the many losses happening in our lives and environment.

The Fungal Heart keeps us connected to the truth and hope that although things come to an end, we have the capacity to create ourselves again and again.

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09/04/2024

Sorrows.
Deep sorrows.
Unruly sorrows.
Agonizing sorrows.
Bereaved sorrows.
Maddening sorrows.
My sorrows.
What's that you say?
Love them? Hug them? Kiss them? Hold them?
But no one has done that for me.
Certainly not these sorrows.

Once you believe you are unloveable, nothing will be able to convince you otherwise.
So love yourself wildly.
And love the sorrows.
Kiss Grief on the lips and make love to your remorse.
Know them as beloved Feeling Friends.
Welcome them to the heart's banquet table
and let them speak, telling the body of their journey through darkness.

And watch as joy toasts to them saying, "Without you, I would have never found the light. For only in the darkest of times do we heed the call to find a joyous light."

The echoing applause ripples through my spin
and Grief and Joy embrace.

08/29/2024

A Wild Heart

It takes a Wild Heart to live in this world.
The kind that sings at sundown,
dances with pain,
grieves into growth,
and slows down enough to
find breath amongst the constant rush of modern life.

A Wild Heart lets control go
allows the internal and relational to unfold.
It craves awareness
and participates in the world with
agency, accountability, and solidarity.

A Wild Heart is bold and courageous,
piercing barriers that challenge
movement towards
your sweet wild self.

08/29/2024

Welcome, Wild Heart Therapies is a private practice offering Individual, Relationship, and Family Therapy, Meditation Sessions, Sandtray Play Therapy, Ecotherapy, and Grief Ceremonies.

Throughout my career I have found that creative modalities offer an avenue for self-expression and somatic release. A personal method I use to move through my healing journey is poetry. I will be posting poems both original and adopted that speak to the tensions between joy and grief, climate anxiety and hope in the natural world, our wild hearts of imagination, and on the complex beauty of all kinds of relationships.

I hope you receive a little encouragement and your wild heart grows a little closer to the art of living.

Wild Heart Therapies is a private practice created to promote health and healing through the lens of radical systemic change on all levels of our shared ecosystem. Zae Palmer, LMFT provides a holistic approach to traditional talk therapy and offers ecotherapy, meditations, and grief ceremonies. Quee...