To start exploring your own re-WILDing journey:
Essential reading: (ordered by author’s last name)
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Embodying the Feminine by Chameli Ardagh
Jailbreaking the Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen
If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging by Sharon Blackie
The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie
All works written by Brené Brown
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
The Holy Wild by Danielle Dulsky
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Seeing In the Dark by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
How to Love a Woman by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Creative Fire by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
How to be an Elder by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol Lee Flinders
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks
Mothering from Your Center by Tami Lynn Kent
Wild Feminine by Tami Lynn Kent
Wild Creative by Tami Lynn Kent
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic by Lisa Lister
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
Re-wilding, The Hero/ine’s Journey by Allison Mitch: https://ignitewell-being.com/re-wilding-the-hero-ines-journey/
(Re)wilding Our Men by Allison Mitch: https://ignitewell-being.com/rewilding-our-men/
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan
Burnout by Emily Nagoski
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
All works by John O’Donohue
Odes by Sharon Olds
All poetry by Mary Oliver
Burning Woman by Lucy H. Pearce
Medicine Woman by Lucy H. Pearce
Moon Time by Lucy H. Pearce
Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin
When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm by Layne Redmond
Succulent Wild Woman by S.A.R.K.
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine by Barbara Tedlock
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Belonging by Toko-pa Turner
Novels and Poetry by Alice Walker
Essential listening:
Grace Denton, Rewilding: Unraveling you conditioning & reconnecting with the Wild Woman inside. Podcast series available through iTunes.
Allison Mitch, Nature Therapy: https://www.napervilleparks.org/podcast/s5-episode-02-nature-therapy (also see What is Nature Therapy?: https://ignitewell-being.com/what-is-nature-therapy/ )
John O’Donohue, The Inner Landscape of Beauty: https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty-aug2017/
Sharon Olds, Odes to the *****: https://onbeing.org/programs/sharon-olds-odes-to-the-bleep/
Mary Oliver, Listening to the World: https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world-jan2019/
Tracy K. Smith, love is a language few practice but all or near all speak https://onbeing.org/programs/tracy-k-smith-love-is-a-language-few-practice-but-all-or-near-all-speak-nov2018/
Krista Tippet, On Being podcast and Becoming Wise podcast through On Being studios, available through iTunes.
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