Knowing Your Wild Woman
Discussion: Connecting back to the raw, instinctive part of your femininity that doesn’t ask for permission
What is the Wild Woman Archetype?
The wild woman is the primordial essence that leaves beneath the polished surface of modern femininity.
She is untamed, unfiltered, and unapologetically herself.
You’ve seen her before - maybe in a woman who doesn’t sugarcoat her words, or one who doesn’t flinch when someone calls her "too much”.
Found in countless folklore, mysticism, and dreams, this archetype represents a force that refuses to be domesticated. She is like Artemis, the huntress who roams free, or La Loba, the bone collector who gathers the forgotten parts of the feminine to bring them back to life.
Beneath the societal conditioning and inherited roles that’ve become normalized for women, every woman carries the echo of her wild woman self.
The wild woman lives in the body’s deep knowing.
In bleeding with reverence, who rages without apology. The one who loves like fire and leaves like wind.
She’s not always graceful but she’s always real.
And she’s inside you - even if you haven’t properly met her.
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Read a review of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ life changing book, Women Who Run With the Wolves for more wild woman expression, here.
Signs You’ve Disconnected from Your Wild Feminine
Disconnection usually slips subtly. You may use to have daily rituals you’ve suppressed, or maybe it looks like keeping everything together a little too tightly.
Some signs of your deep feminine connection may look like:
Fear of your own depth: Avoiding silence, shadow work or anything that might stir what’s buried.
Diminished sensuality: Losing connection to your body’s pleasure, intuition and internal rhythms.
Over-identifying with perfection: Editing yourself constantly to fit in, look good, or be “appropriate”
Inner critic dominance: The voice in your head becomes a pressing drill sergeant, not a wise elder.
The lack of your wild feminine may feel emotionally flat or maybe over productive but under fulfilled.
In all truth, the wild woman doesn’t show up when you’re busy shape shifting into all the things you think you need to be.
She shows up when you’re honest.
Rituals to Reconnect
This is your friendly reminder that waiting until you’re “ready” simply doesn’t exist. Stepping into your sensual, unapologetic feminine asks for presence, not perfection or knowing all the answers.
Walk barefoot, whenever you can.
Take off your socks and shoes. Step outside. Let your soles meet the ground.
This isn’t about “getting grounded” in the spiritual fluff sense, but truly reminding your nervous system what real contact feels like.
Removing the layers between your skin and the world enhances your awareness back to the physical body.
The Wild Feminine lives there in a good feeling sensation. .
Dance like nobody’s watching, alone.
Putting on music that moves you, is so liberating.
Dance how you want to without anyone watching: upbeat, slow and sensual, ever connected to the sound of the music.
Stuck feminine energy stores in the hips, so try letting them lead.
Journaling without an intention.
No grades will be given here, nor any journal prompt.
Come to a blank page with nothing to scribble, curse, yell onto the page.
It can be messy, it can be incoherent or contradictory. You will be surprised what you find.
Why Embracing Your Wild Woman Heals More Than You Think
Many have been programmed to believe that being likeable is more important than being whole.
A lot of people don’t know what’s real anymore, whether it be in relationships, media, or with themselves.
Healing your deep, dark, unforgiving energy wants you to own your no. To worship your yes.
She’s no tasking you to be fearless - she wants you to be real.
While this is emotional work, it’s also structural. You will start drawing harder boundaries, you will say no faster, you will speak clearer, you will leave sooner.
The ripple effect of meeting your own depths in massive. It will change how you work, love, create, and show up in every room
The Wild Woman, is not diluted.
She is cyclical, as she understands the transformative processes that occurs with deep internal reflection.
It is a practice that turns embodied.
She is waiting for you, right now.
Are you ready to listen to what she’s saying?
