by Chris Maddox | Apr 15, 2024 | Creative Fire, Heart-Centered Leadership, WILD WOMAN, Wildness
My original theological text was written by Mary Schmich, and made popular by Baz Luhrmann. The Sunscreen Song, chock full of solid advice, was released when I was in high school and became a philosophical boon in my tumultuous and angsty teenage atheist years. ...
by Chris Maddox | Mar 1, 2024 | Creative Fire, WILD WOMAN
I see you out there doing your absolute best with what you’ve got. I see you figuring out how to this thing with some style and joy. I see you wobbling a little here and there and find it sexy. I see you out there dancing on the edge like a prayer your great...
by Chris Maddox | Apr 17, 2023 | Creative Fire, WILD WOMAN, Wildness
I’ve been thinking a lot about hope. What exactly is it? I’ve been thinking a lot about hope because I feel it fully reemerging in me, after being mostly absent for the better part of three years. Like a little inner flame inside, I want to nurture this emerging hope,...
by Chris Maddox | Mar 17, 2023 | Creative Fire, Heart-Centered Leadership, WILD WOMAN, Wildness
The very last days of Winter are here. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring officially begins on Monday. The Vernal Equinox is the halfway point between the Winter Solstice (the darkest day of the year) and the Summer Solstice (the brightest day of the...
by Chris Maddox | Feb 10, 2023 | Creative Fire, Lunar Wisdom, WILD WOMAN, Wildness
How would your life be different, inside and out, if you allowed your deepest, most instinctual nature to guide you? Who would you be if you reconnected to the force which Dr. Estés calls la que sabe (the one who knows), la loba (the wolf woman), the woman who...
by Chris Maddox | Jan 6, 2023 | Creative Fire, Reclaiming Sisterhood, WILD WOMAN, Wildness
As a kid, I’d hop on my bike, wind on my face, looking for an adventure. All I had to remember was to be back before the street lamps came on. Afternoons, summers, and weekends were full of adventures in climbing trees, building forts from found materials,...
