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 | Feb 8, 2023 | WILD WOMAN
Amanda P. was one of the VERY first women to sign up for Circle Leader Training when I launched The Wild Woman Project in 11+ years ago. We’d met the previous year through a Lucid Body workshop in Los Angeles, where I was Fay Simpson’s assistant and...
by Chris Maddox | Jan 19, 2023 | Lunar Wisdom, WILD WOMAN
For as long as I can remember, I have loved the feel of January. The stress of the holidays behind us, and the sense of wide open vistas of opportunity and potentiality ahead. For a precious few weeks, the spark of aspiration is alive and felt on a collective level. ...
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,...
by Chris Maddox | Dec 20, 2022 | Lunar Wisdom, WILD WOMAN
When we follow the tracks of the Wild Woman Archetype, who is viscerally connected to the cycles of the Sun and Moon and intrinsically connected to the living world, we are over and over again faced with the presence of darkness. Eventually the Full Moon fades to...
by Chris Maddox | Dec 3, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
The days are long, but the years are short. I overheard one seasoned parent say this to a new mother just recently, regarding the process of parenting. The phrase was instantly lodged in my mind. It’s a Gretchen Rubin line. And it is one that applies just as well to...