Informed by a commitment to be in service to the great family on Earth, we will be focusing on truly inhabiting our own bodies. Instead of constantly asking “How do I look?”, we will ask: “How do I feel?”And trust that our interior experiences have a big role to play in healing ourselves and our world.
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Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
I have noticed that I have slowly disconnected from my body. My Mother’s passing last August 27th was excruciatingly painful and at the same time divinely blessed. I have felt this new inner strength and deep clarity that has allowed my to dive deeper into my healing process and allow past experiences and emotions to surface and be cared for. At the same time or as part of a reaction to this, I have stopped practicing yoga, exercising, eating mindfully and loving my body – my sacred vessel. I am remembering many past experiences when I have felt extreme discomfort and pain because of unwanted words and behavior from men, and even women, focused on my body. I understand how sexually wounded women consciously or subconsciously want to gain weight and become invisible. “Just leave me alone.” “Don’t look at me.”
Now, I will continue to “dive” deeply but I will also “come up for air”, if you will. Time to fall in love with my body again and care for it. Reading your post today has been very affirming for me. Much gratitude. Peace and many blessings to you, Mary Ellen
We have treated the planet the same way we’ve been treating each other. The disrespect, abuse, negligence and objectification of our bodies is absolutely reflected in our connection to the planet.
As they strip and pollute the earth, we’ve been preoccupied with superficial outward appearances, brainwashed to fit either over-sexualized or sexless stereotypical roles of what a woman should be. For them.
As they rob the planet of its resources, they devalue our inner worth. It leaves us all in a weakened state, vulnerable to negative outside influences.
They want to regulate our bodies while running rampant with destruction. If women were to fully live in our own skins, and take ownership of our inner self, we wouldn’t tolerate the abuse, we couldn’t abide by living with “that’s just the way things are”
I hadn’t realized how much judgement I had internalized. Judgement about my age, about my body with all of its scars after birthing two kids, judgement about my physical desires for the divinely erotic. But once I started to envision myself at my most vulnerable self (a little girl of 15 months who had just lost her father and who’s mother fell into a deep depression for years), I started to realize that I was also that little girl’s mother. I realized that I could honor that little body who just wanted connection, to be loved. I realized that I needed to put her first. I realized that I had the power to give her what she most deeply desired. I had the power to give her autonomy. After that everything changed. The most significant thing to come of those realizations is courage. Courage to trust myself. Courage to take that first step towards becoming my highest self.
I’ve become so in touch with my body over the past year. A year and a half ago I wanted to make a physical change, and I feel like back then it was mostly rooted in an aesthetic change. But about this time last year I really leaned in to why I wanted to make a change for myself. I was beginning to internally feel the changes based on my choices; I felt like I had so much more energy, I felt I could move more freely, I felt the food that I put into my body fueling me. That has been the crux of my intuitive process with my body over the past year and I can hardly believe the difference of how I feel from then to now. That statement above – no longer asking “How do I look?” and start asking “How do I feel?” could have been written by my higher self a year ago, and I didn’t discover the Wild Woman Project until months afterward. But then again, that’s how the Universe works, yeah?
I have enjoyed having the WWP as a monthly reminder to “come home” in my Self. It’s so easy in this society to get caught up in our heads, or to see our bodies as just vehicles or projects to be worked on, or as little minefields of things we should resent or dislike. But my body is a manifestation of the energy that is me. My body doesn’t create the sensations and feelings it has, my sensations and feelings create my body.
I think my body has been speaking to me all along and it just took me learning what its vocabulary was in order to hear it and to respond. I think right now my body is just so happy that I’m able to understand it for the first time in years it’s like a kid sharing every story s/he can think of so rapidly that I have to laugh and just listen to its joy for a bit.
So thank you, WWP, for sharing your journey and reminders of new ways to feel and to remember how to connect with ourselves. Cheers, and here’s to many more!
I’m grateful to have learned a path I can take to a space where I can hear my heart & intuition speak. And that I am wise enough to go there and listen.
Over the past year I have come to the conclusion that at some point I need to just accept myself exactly as I am, no matter how much I weigh, or how big my thighs are, what I look like. If I don’t do it now, when will it ever happen. I will always be that person unhappy with her reflection, always looking to improve, never satisfied. Well…Enough. In my yoga practice just recently I am more aware of the energy moving and the feeling of “being in my flesh” as I breathe and move and I have to say it feels absolutely delicious. I look forward to peeling back more layers, expanding, and growing outside the box.
The most powerful lesson my body taught me this year was the internal knowing that I have the capacity, desire, and role of a mother within me. I finally acknowledged and accepted this part of me that I had previously repressed, under a full moon while all around me goats were giving birth. It was a powerful night. Does anyone remember the super-blue-blood moon in January?