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Yes, constantly questioning and weeding has been apart of my daily practice for some time now, but my deep dive was when I had a child. Every action, everything I request of him requires a why from me. Why do I make him say please whenever he asks for something? Why is that the mark of politeness? Isn’t a kind voice and some eye contact just as good (if not better)? Why does he have to by clothed at the dinner table and lay a napkin in his lap? Why does he have to eat when I’M hungry and eat what I have prepared for him? These small everyday all day things are teaching him not to listen and trust his own body and self. I just read a book called Raising Free People by Akilah Richards that really opened my eyes to parenting opression. We have a lot to undo and unravel. There are a lot of things that are insulting my soul right now and I don’t want to pass those things onto my children. Time to weed the garden.
Ashley yes!!!!! I love akilah!!! Same over here girl! When I had kids I was like oh no something is very wrong in everything I have been told.
Yes exactly! So agree…. Same mother of a toddler here I never listen to my mom since beginning when she was trying to put her own fears on my child” about eating specially” I said enough I grew up with so many problems that I have to cut off I want my baby to free of this stupidity. Yes they are made with love but who needs this fake love? I Don’t, Thanks!
So happy to find Baby led weaning our baby eats everything and has no problem with food! I don’t have to run after her with a spoon like my mom did with me… “with good intentions”
Yes to all of this. I love the questions arising in you. I also believe eating and eliminating are crucially important things to a child and should never be made into battlegrounds. In these two areas, the child is learning sovereignty over his/her own body. Who decides what enters my body? Who decides what I need and when is the time for me to jettison what is no longer helpful to me?
Thank you for sharing your weeding journey, Ashley. And for bringing to light how parenting can be a rewilding path of its own. Happy to hear it all. Much love, C
I resonate so much with this. My son (now 13) has always been one to ask “Why?”, which made me look at why I was creating rules and routines. Sometimes I would realize there was no good reason for my rules, and if there was I would tell him what my reasons were. While I was often criticized for my parenting I now have a teenager who questions expectations, but also realizes when there is a good reason to do or not do something. Occasionally he doesn’t think my reason is good enough (which doesn’t change the rule), but he tells me that he trusts my decisions because I don’t make rules for the sake of making rules.
I still do social media but I limit who and what I look at ,as you could spend a lot of time looking at your device. I do like receiving information on workshops and events I’m interested in my area . One thing I did about 2 years ago is give up watching the news and limit the amount of tv I watch in general I found it has eased my stress and anxiety . I now start my day with a grateful , peaceful heart . I find my life garden has less negative weeds and more beautiful flowers
Thanks so much for sharing, Cindy. Much love
I feel so depressed seating on SM spending time there for nothing.
My soul is crying when I am there.. I do feel how bad this is for me and my family I can say I am addicted to Instagram it makes me so angry and unhappy.
I take breaks from it for couple of weeks but I go back… it’s like a drug. I feel so weak. It’s crazy what an impact has internet on us.
Deep inside I hear the voice that tells me “delete it” but my ego is so big and afraid to loose control and don’t let me do it.
I have this fear that I will loose clients, how I will get people for my circles and etc? All businesses are online now.. and this makes me frustrating. I have a problem of missing the opportunity, but at the same time I am not productive. So I’m upset on myself.
Last night I felt the call of my soul and I deleted all SM from my phone. I would love to take break for a year or more. I need it!
Amen sister!!!!
Thank you for sharing the inside of your grappling with social media and your relationship to it. Happy to hear your self-awareness & steps you are taking to honor the call of your soul. Much love and strength to you.
SM is like everything in life, it has it’s upside and downside. For me, it’s practicing awareness, and I stress practicing, because I often fall victim to it’s seductive, siren’s cry and stay up way too late scrolling to find some important nugget, or payoff. It’s like gambling, you never know when you’re gonna hit the jackpot. And like gambling, it’s the intermittent reinforcement schedule, (ala Skinner,) that produces the most difficult pattern to break. Even as I am typing this I am aware of so many other things I have to do in the “real” world. So although awareness is key, trying to break free of the programs designed to keep us trapped is a challenge.
Thanks for the thought provoking blog. I’ve heard that something like 90+% of our daily thoughts are repeats. Through a process called IST, with the Clairvision school of meditation, I’ve been uncovering some deep held unconscious feelings/thoughts about myself that are blowing me away. I’ve been in therapy, recovery groups etc, literally since adolescence, and I have never experienced such a profound method of uncovering the samskaras and the truths about myself and transmuting and healing them with spirits help.
Thanks for reading and sharing, Dale. Happy to hear the meditation techniques you are doing now are serving you. Much love.
I have been off FB for a month and a half now, and to my surprise I do not miss it one bit. At first I felt guilty because FB was my “connection” to family and friends around the world that I didn’t get to see often, but in truth I had very little interaction with any of them anyway. And now I have been making more of an effort to connect directly with the people that matter… and getting so much more done!
Thanks for sharing, Jenn. Happy to hear this! Much love
I am just sitting quietly and reading this. Your words echo so loudly with what I have been working on in my own spiritual journey. Questioning everything – reexamining what I have been told and yes, weeding out that which does not feel right. I still question if some of those are weeds or flowers in disguise, but still question. As I move to my own beat, one that feels right for me; I have had some people dismiss my thoughts or words about some things because I questioned what has been the norm as if to say.”how dare you question, just do as you have been told.” I realized it was the conditioning from early on. I try to stay away from the news except to stay somewhat informed about happenings and I am going to take your lead and jump off social media with the exception of my business page, and that is to add information. I still prefer an actual voice call to a text or instant message. I am enjoying rediscovering the wild inside again
Loving all of these reflection, Darcie! thank you for sharing!