At the stroke of midnight, The Wild Woman Project will turn 8 years old.
HOWL.
It was both a lifetime ago & just yesterday that I sat up putting the finishing touches on the very first website I had ever made & awaiting the official New Year’s Day – stroke of midnight – launch of this project.
Since the beginning, I have had a practice of communicating with the Soul of The Wild Woman Project. I believe every living thing has a Soul or Spiritual Essence and that when we drop into our own Soul, we can enter into a meaningful communication with other Souls.
It had been a long while since I’d gone deep with my dear old friend and with her birthday fast approaching, I wanted to give her some space to be witnessed and heard, and I realize now writing these words, to be appreciated and loved. But then, isn’t witnessing and listening a way of living our love?
As the Sun began to rise over the mountains, I sat in my favorite yellow chair, coffee in hand & journal open, ready to catch messages. I closed my eyes and began slowly by deepening my breath. As I did, I noticed my breath was a having a hard time becoming full. It seemed my ribs were once again at war with my clothing choice. When will I ever learn?! So, I made the command decision to take off my bra, or as my friend Amira would say, liberate myself from boob jail! As soon as I did, the Sun beamed in through the window lighting me up & seeming to celebrate my choice.
I closed my eyes once again and we were off to the races!
The Soul of The Wild Woman Project appeared in a form that I had never seen her in before: A Great Big Mother Tree. I sat at her roots feeling tiny and deeply comforted by her powerful and loving presence.
My view point suddenly zoomed out & I began to see smaller trees, beautiful trees, in places around the globe where there are Wild Woman Project Circles happening. Each one was different and perfect in a way that nearly broke my heart. I could see that just as a Mother Tree in a forest will send saplings and smaller trees nutrients through the roots & fungal networks, the Soul of The Wild Woman Project was sending love, strength, wisdom, and light to the other trees. I sat watching in total awe for a long while.
Then I asked her if she had a message for the New Year and the New Decade, she said: Let’s keep growing spaces for remembrance, true connection & Soul-tending.
I saw where the service of The Wild Woman Project fit into the revolutionary time we are living in. A new world is being born right now and everyone alive is part of it. I saw countless coalitions of scientists, inventors, political activists, artists, makers, writers, journalists, farmers, and on & on – each working in their area to make sure this birth is a healthy one.
My inner vision cut to a scene of small circle of neighbors and friends, listening to wisdom in their Souls & sharing with one another. I saw them walking into the rest of their lives – into their homes, families, workplaces – informed by, even changed by, those subtle, yet profound, whispers of the Soul.
At The Wild Woman Project, our contribution to the healthy birth of a New World is the growing of and caring for these spaces for Soul-tending. Our only work is building intimacy with the Natural World, one another & the depths of our own Souls. Each of those 3 main roads lead to love, the most powerful force on Earth.
So, on this occasion of The Wild Woman Project’s 8th birthday eve, I would like to say thank you on her behalf & from the bottom of my own heart for being a part of our work-play-service.
You are loved.
Thank you to our Circle Leaders, who continue to grow Soul-tending spaces & thank you to those who participate – those making those Circles powerful.
Thank you to our WILD WOMAN FEST community – facilitators & participants, participants & facilitators – for making our annual multi-day ritual a space of revolutionary remembrance. I can’t wait to be with you all this Summer for our 7th year together.
Thank you to those who show up for our moonthly online sessions of Wild Woman School– The massive sacred space we make through time & space is potent. I am a stronger more connected person because of it.
Thank you to our dear Love Crew (Sesha Coleman, Danielle Gismondi, Sara Goff, Cole Lopez, Samantha Midler & Amanda P.) who help us produce FEST each year & our to our beloved Circle Leader Mentors (Amy Witmyer & Amanda P.) for helping to train our global network of Facilitators.
Thank you to Amanda Petrocelly who wears many hats & walks with me through every aspect of tending this project of ours.
And of course, thank you to The Wild Woman Project for all you continue to provide for us. I truly could not love you more. Happy Birthday!
If you’d like to offer us a birthday blessing or warm words, please leave it in the comments here! We always love to hear how The Wild Woman Project has impacted your life.
As we welcome in a new decade later tonight, I will be HOWLING and I hope you will join me – see if you can get your loved ones to join you (they’ll love it)!
I am both hopeful and fully aware of the work ahead us.
May we continue to grow together & love one another more and more each day.
The only work, the only play, happens here & now.
Happy New Year, Beauties.
Mighty Howls & Big ♥️,
Chris
Founder of The Wild Woman Project & WILD WOMAN FEST
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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.
Happy Birthday to the Wild Woman Project! I have been forever changed by you 💕
May the air of this Season lift you; the Sun brighten your path n your year glow with favor in your life.
May the next decade be filled with the best of your today’s…
Now all ways n always. So might it be.
✨🐺✨🙏🏽
Thank 🌷🌻🌹, for being. Much Love & Hugs 2all who read this. Especially to Cris n Amanda P.
In Lak’ech A’la Kin ✨💞✨🙏🏽
Howwllppy Birthday Wild Women Project, you are who I’ve been searching for and thanks to your generosity of spirit and love I am now back on my right path of service to Gaia. Much love and gratitude Fii 🥰💚
Dear Chris-thank you for sharing your wisdom of pausing and reflecting. Happy birthday to you and to all that you have created. love to you! Tracy R
Dear Chris,
Happy Birthday to Wild Woman Project! So thankful for this course! It was life changing!
Dear Chris, happy happy Birthday – I am always touched when I listen to your messages. Thank you for your openhearted way of sharing. Love from Cologne, Germany.
Kerstin, Du großartige, wie schön, Dich hier zu sehen!
Sisterlove, Danni
Happy Birthday Chris,
Thank you for your shearing your passion & love with is all. For your sweet warm openness…. let’s keep howling! xx
So beautiful, Chris my Love.
I remember being at HQ, and HEARING and feeling the trees there beaming to the labyrinth tree of the mountain, to familiars in Ohio, and way way way beyond. I remember feeling the Soul of the Project come through stronger for me than every before. This growing and thriving community living out her intention breathes so much life into this mission in these times. I am SO honored to be chosen to be a small part of the great majesty of it all, and am sooooo along for the ride in this new decade and this new world we are co-creating! I love you. Happy New Year Bebe.
Happy birthday wild woman project this birth and celebration is felt within each of us that has opened the space within to hold space for others doing the work of spaciousness to connect with the grandeur vision we are held and supported by our connection. Lots of love
Happy Birthday Wild Woman Project 🎺🎶🌈 – thank you so much Chris and all you wonderful women – let’a keep on spreading Love 💖✨ I am happy and grateful to be part of it 🌱 Love Maria
May that seed that you planted eight years ago forever keep reaching skyward and earthward. Love to all the Wild Women.
Happy Birthday Wild Woman Project! I am also forever changed and soooo grateful. May we keep the fires burning and hearing her whispers from the trees. Thank you Chris, for all the hard work/ play you have done and continue to do. Many Blessings for the upcoming year and decade!! Love to you all!!
Happy Birthday Wild Women Project! Thank you Chris for you bold spirit and for your vision. I have been cracked open since attending WWF 2016 and learned and continue to learn so much from all the wilds on and off the mountain. You are an amazing demonstration of the power of one who acts!
Happy birthday to The Wild Woman Project!
Every time I tune in I am inspired to deepen my relationship with mother Earth and the incredible women in my life. Thank you for creating this wonderful network of powerful women and for allowing us to access it from anywhere across the globe. OOOOOWWWWW!!
With love from Durham, NC
I am so grateful for the work and love that you and Amanda P and others put into this project. It has changed my life for the better on so many different levels!! Sending love to all and cheers to many more years of creating space for planting seeds of change and opening up into our wisdom.
XO from Pine Lake, Georgia….Tina
What a wonderful birthday to be celebrating! So much love for this community! Coming into circle has allowed me to realize something deep within myself was missing and I am able to find it here, in circle and here within me! Happy happy birthday and many more to come HOOOOOOOOOOOWWWLLL
Hooowls for the great Birth-Day of this light bringing and life changing project and her magic founder <3
The inspiration and power that comes from this mother tree and her "gardeners-crew" is sparkling the flame of Change, bringing us Woman back to our powers and inner wisdom.
Wunderbar!
And I am so happy and thankful to share my little light with all of you!
There is a voice whispering, that comes from the deepest roots…time comes to connect with the lights of the male powers too…I am looking forward with a excited heart beating…
May the new world be a peaceful one – full of Love between all beings.
Heartlights to all of you,
Daniela from Germany/Cologne
Hi Daniela!!
Ich komme ursprünglich aus Köln, lebe jetzt in England aber komme immer mal wieder vorbei magst du mir eine email schicken? Devinder at Hotmail. De 💗 würde mich freuen zu hören was in Köln in der Szene so los ist 😉
Hey Chris and Team! ❤️❤️
💐🎂💐🎂💋💕💞
Belated happy birthday
🎉🎂🎉🎂💗💗🎉😊🎉💞💞💞
The post just wet my eyes and eventhough I have not done the training I am on my path to opening and creating and sharing…
I am awe inspired by the text and your message!!
It is all so full of hope and just the time now to keep going strong and invite ever more people to join us
Thank you for being an outstanding inspiration 🙏🙏🙏😁💗💕💗💕💗
Lena, Worcestershire, UK
Thanks for all your warm words, Everyone. They are received and felt!