What is Wild Power?
A devotion to the passionate roar within us that dismantles social domestication in order to claim an authentic, free, and sovereign self
Do you stay in stagnant or toxic situations out of a sense of fear or duty?
Do you find yourself clinging to the “safe and known” because the fear of uncertainty is too paralyzing?
Do you long to feel the fully liberated expression of your passion, purpose, and aliveness?
When you reclaim your Wild Power, you’ll feel committed to developing a trusted relationship with your own inner authority. This often means embracing patterns of shame and not succumbing to external authorities or voices that judge or criticize your authentic way of living, loving and engaging your life.
You live your life through your own personal vision and authentic purpose — rather than remaining inside the cages of domestication and striving to become who you think you “should be”.
About Wild Power
You know that wobbly feeling when you realize that your attempts to become who you think you should be have resulted in a loss of freedom, passion, and joyful engagement with your life?
To be free is to expose the superhuman compulsion of striving to become who you think you should be — rather than being and doing what makes your heart sing. And, let’s face it, this is no easy task to feel and follow our passions when we’re living in a world of increasing financial, social and personal pressures.
To reclaim our Wild Power is to expose and challenge any external expectations that suggest we will be better off if we follow a particular script — especially when that prescriptive formula is not aligned with our heart and soul.
Embodying Wild Power is a gritty and liberating journey of dismantling domestication. This means revealing the ways we’ve been lulled into a slumber of compliance. To re-wild is to remember and embody the fullness of who we are.
When we tap into our Wild Power we turn inward and partner with our true nature. As a result, we start to root into our expanded, sovereign self. This is where divine wisdom becomes more present and influential than our personality and personal agendas.
For conscious leaders and heart-revolutionaries, the deeper question of Wild Power is “What are my deepest values and vision? And what is the legacy of my life and presence on the planet?”
When you’re in your Wild Power you most likely feel:
a passionate roar inside that keeps you focused on your vision and what is most important to you
in touch with your sense of personal authority over cultural and social expectations
free to embody the fullness of who you are, with or without the approval of others
alive with passionate purpose and on track with your authentic path
When you’re out of rhythm with your Wild Power you might feel:
attached to a limited idea of ‘success,’ which is based on external factors rather than your own sense of authentic fulfillment
chronically drained, uninspired, or out of touch with your passion and purpose
reliant on others’ opinions over your own sense of clarity, truth, and desire
stuck or paralyzed in life situations or relationships you’ve outgrown but fear letting go of
Self-inquiry:
Have you traded your own wildness to fit in? If so, how?
Which conditioned beliefs about who you ‘should’ be have stifled your sense of wildness, sovereignty, and freedom?
How do you access the longings of your wild heart and relinquish the impulses to shrink and hold back?
Learn more about Wild Power:
Podcast Episodes & blog articles
on the podcast:
It’s been 2.5 years since I found myself slung deep into another dark night of the soul, which I am gingerly resurrecting from. Today I'm sharing some of the heartbreaks, the victories, and two key themes of this alchemical and harrowing journey.
What does it look like when mega-celebrity spiritual teachers misuse their power and authority? And, when do these teachers' blindspots recapitulate the student's trauma - especially when the teacher doesn't understand the student's trauma response and instead blames the student for not doing the practices "right"?
This conversation with Nicola Amadora brings light to the reality that students of spiritual teachers can slip into being the recipient of dominating power dynamics of power-over with their teacher. This can cause the student to lose faith in their own inner authority and self-authoring trust.
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How many of us learned that our value is crystallized only after we have achieved the esteemed social status, the perfect job, the perfect family, perfect body, or the perfect healthy lifestyle?
These pressures whisk us away on a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows — one day we feel accomplished, successful, and worthy, and a day later, we collapse into depression, unworthiness and feelings of self-doubt and failure.
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As evolutionary leaders, we traverse through five phases of development. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks about these phases and the shift from phase 3 of creative/authentic leadership to phase 4 integral leadership. What are the key hallmarks of integral leadership and what can we do to become one? Listen to learn more!
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In this second episode of our two-part series, Rixt shares with us how she co-designed an integral leadership program for an executive based upon his desire to become a more integral leader — through embracing more of his shadows.
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This conversation with Rixt Kuiper and Rob Sinclair is about integral leadership and shadow work. How do we as leaders, consultants, healers, therapists and change-makers lead and love through exploring our personal projections and exiled parts of self?
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What does it mean to reclaim our erotic power?
This conversation with Darshana Avila, Erotic Wholeness Coach, is about healing and expanding our concepts of what it means to be an erotic and whole being.
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What happens when stoicism and the learned behavior of compartmentalizing one's emotions and vulnerability stifle the individual who embodies them?
This phenomenon is called toxic masculinity — an exalted archetype of what it means “to be a man”, which is reinforced through socialization and conditioning.
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Hualani from Canada and Marie from South Africa and I focus on what it’s been like to feel both exiled and exalted in confusing and painful ways since childhood.
We explored how we’ve each navigated through the process of shifting from being an isolated exile to a Holy one.
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Listen to qigong master, Damaris Jarboux, as she describes the framework for foreign energy and how it impacts our mental body (thoughts), emotional body, physical body and eventually our spiritual connection.
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How does the Vagal Nerve serve as one of our greatest inner allies, helping us to recover from activated states of threat, anxiety, fear, and helplessness? Patricia shares about this inner Jedi along with simple practices we can do to wield this power, and calm our triggers while driving or in the middle of a business meeting.
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Many of us are taught we have to find the one core purpose for our expression in the world and if we can’t do that then somehow it means we’ve failed. That is NOT true. You’ll hear Sajit debunk this outdated paradigm and offer a new way to explore soul purpose.
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Mark shares about his relationship with the natural world as his teacher, beloved, ally, and sacred mirror. He is devoted to serving as a meditation teacher who guides others to engage directly with the natural world as a form of spiritual practice and remembering.
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Jen candidly shares with us about the vulnerability and liberation of living a life through radical self-honesty. She shares about her book and women’s program on Midlife Emergence, which she describes as "the process of coming into view or being exposed after previously being concealed."
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Hualani, Marie, and I cover a number of topics on Sacred Sisterhood and the need to heal the collective shadows of feminine power out of balance and the power of when it’s balanced and serving healing for the whole.
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Holadia speaks about the art of pausing. Of taking time to turn inward and listen, clarify and ask for guidance, which is counter-intuitive to the mind’s need to race, fix, solve and go until exhaustion.
She guides others to break out of boxes through offering customized personal retreats at her home in Boulder, Colorado.
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Alexandra shares a tender story of her own power reclamation process, specific to navigating the shock and loss of her husband taking his life five years ago. She also walks us through her framework of the four phases of evolutionary consciousness.
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Scott Odom, a retired cop, shares how his deepest suffering has served as the fuel for him to step from a dark and destructive existence into one of freedom and joy – from the inside out.
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In the second episode, we explore the 6 distinct powers that encompass the wheel of integrated power. Each power serves as an entry point to illuminate our individual gifts, as well as any conditioned or banished aspects of ourselves that eagerly await our acceptance and fierce love.
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In this first episode, I share inspiring stories gleaned from 20 interviews with others about their relationship to power. I also introduce The Power Reclamation System, which is a dynamic, non-linear discovery process designed to help hunt and track for the places where we’ve lost power, and how to reclaim it.
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On the blog:
In Western culture, we prize a “superhuman ideal.” From a young age, many of us are indoctrinated by cultural and social pressures to reach our highest potential and “hit our life out of the park,” even at the expense of our own authentic desires, health, and emotional well-being.
To be human is to traverse a lifetime of micro and macro initiations. Each one of us is a hero or heroine on a mysterious journey of pleasure, love, and connection, as well as states of fear, anxiety, separation, darkness, loss and heartbreak. Initiations are the path of evolution. They crack us open, break us down, leave us breathless and eventually, through their alchemy and transmutation, present us with our personal light and power.
Domestication is the absence of being wild. It’s curated by internalized perceptions of who we think we must be in order to be lovable, valuable, and feel our belonging. To cope, we learn to compartmentalize aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of or that don’t fit into these social and cultural expectations. Each time we banish a part of ourselves, we fragment from our wholeness.
Sometimes the chains that bind us with patterns of domestication are invisible, even to ourselves. If you’re interested in becoming familiar with how domestication unsuspectingly plays out in your daily life, there are three areas to begin your investigation: 1. Personal and self-reinforced domestication, 2. Interpersonal and relationship domestication, 3. Systemic and power-over domestication.
The matrix of social and cultural conditioning is the most pervasive form of trauma on the planet. It’s a system of mind control that manipulates us to think, feel, and behave in specific ways. Without realizing what’s happening, we become drugged by a fabricated and conditioned reality. One that recklessly distorts our feelings of wholeness and creates a sense of painful separation and aloneness.
Unbeknownst to most of us, domestication is already growing deep roots during our early developmental process, which begins while in our mother’s womb and extends through the ages of seven or eight years old. What were you taught as a boy or girl? Let’s take a look at some traditional domesticating expectations of men and women.
Your brain is the mapmaker of your belief system. While our subconscious beliefs serve us to an extent, they also leave us with blind spots, such as outdated protection mechanisms. Becoming an integrated human being isn’t about erasing our adaptive strategies, but about expanding and updating responses that reflect who we are now.
Going down the rabbit hole of personal and collective trauma can invoke what some refer to as a dark night of the soul. The phrase “dark night of the soul” is used to describe what happens when the conceptual frameworks of our life, and the associated meaning we have attributed to it, fall apart. This collapse of “normal” can occur suddenly, or slowly over time, creating a dark and disorienting space inside.
As global disruption and chaos increase, most of us feel the impact through spikes of anxiety, fear, and overwhelm. The information age has placed us in a unique time. During previous decades, national news and media platforms had the ability to conceal any information deemed unfit for public consumption. They had the power to leave us in the dark.
To be a revolutionary is to be willing to listen to the voice of our heart and soul. And follow it, even when logic and reason attempt to derail us in order to protect our sense of safety or our self-images.
I recently took a significant professional (and personal) leap when I launched my new business, Your Erotic Nature. I’m passionate about this because I know what becomes possible when we know how to access our creative life force of erotic aliveness.
For much of my life, I was caught in the web of what I call ‘The Self-Improvement Campaign’. This ‘campaign’ is the false notion that somehow we are deficient. Therefore, in order to be happy, successful, and belong we have to constantly improve ourselves.
We are in a pivotal time of awakening, change, and growth on this planet. This is the time to reclaim your power, integrity, and authentic sexual expression. Unlocking the cage starts with being aware of the beliefs, thoughts, emotional patterns, and behaviors that create shame or “stuckness.”
As primal creatures, we are bound to be reactive. So how can we develop presence, leadership, and deeply fulfilling intimate relationships when we’re innately equipped with animalistic wiring?
How does the journey of wild salmon reflect the path of living an authentic life? The journey of the salmon is one of the most amazing phenomena in nature. How is it that after years in the sea, they can locate the exact stream in which they were born, and pursue their upstream return home?
Much of what we’ve been taught to value points us outside of ourselves and increases a sense of feeling separate and alone. If we can’t force a system to change then what can we find inside of ourselves that carries us through the storm of collective change? How can leaders challenge the old paradigm and support a collaborative and wisdom-oriented approach towards effective change?
When we embrace the view that our shadows are as significant as our joy and passion we are on a different journey than the traditional one of ‘avoid feeling and exploring your fear, create illusions of control, and pretend to be what you think is acceptable’. Opening into and witnessing what is present in our experience is the entry point to a path of deepening into an authentic relationship with ourselves and all of life.
Have you longed for a particular relationship, job, creating a family or a spiritual realization only to discover that after achieving these things you’re still struggling; still not happy? You discover that these accomplishment themselves are not inherently the key to your deeper sense of happiness?
How often do we sense a longing from deep within and find ourselves gently holding it like an exquisite hummingbird that startles us with her beauty as swiftly as she disappears? How often does it crack us open to something bigger that we sense, but don’t yet know as intimately as we would like to?
How different would life be if you were willing to have your own experience and share what is most true for you? Yes, even in the middle of a business meeting! If you’re like many of us, speaking our truth can sometimes be very elusive, or our delivery can be sharp because we feel caught in apparent dilemmas. It can be difficult to stay present to our immediate experience and take the next step of sharing this with others. Why? A primary reason I witness in myself and with my clients is our attachment to an identity or role.
To re-wild is to remember the fullness of who we are. The journey of re-wilding is a path of unifying and welcoming any exiled part of ourselves back home into the center of our heart and whole-being. Embodiment allows us to see through the distracting charade of being overly identified with our self-images and personas instead of the core of our being.