the quiet wild
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The Quiet Wild is the embodiment of what happens when you are going through the trials of life. You look calm, strong, and in control, to the outside world. But the inner world… You are in the wilderness. You are in the wild, and you don’t feel prepared for anything that's coming your way. While things around you might seem calm and quiet, you are trekking up the mountain, clinging on for your life.
We’ve all been through the Quiet Wild. It’s parenthood, it’s a marriage, and then a divorce, it’s deconstructing your faith, finding a new belief, kids with special needs, neurodivergence, mental health, addiction, the diagnosis, the one that caused a definitive before and after. It is the things that make up life. The things we can’t always talk about or not to everyone.
The Quiet Wild is about finding hope when your world feels ablaze. You’re lost on the trail, and you want a guidepost to show you which way to go. The Quiet Wild is about realizing you are your own guidepost and you can make your own way in the world. Because, while we need community, there are so many times you are in the wild on your own. You’ve got to find a way, and you can. You can pull that quiet up from within you and keep going.
These are my stories from my own time in my own wilderness. Because I have walked those paths, I’ve been lost, found my way again, and somehow kept going. I want to empower you to tell your story with your own vulnerability and grit because when we share, we heal.