We don’t choose the path of our transformation it chooses us, and we either choose it back, and do the sacred work or we stay stuck.
In my mid-twenties, I was raising my one-year-old, completing my final year of university, and suddenly facing cancer. What followed was not just a physical battle, but a complete unraveling of the life I thought I was building.
PTSD, surgeries, chronic pain, brain fog, anxiety and the quiet grief of secondary infertility left me hollowed out. I lost my work, my sense of direction, and the version of myself I thought I had to be, I felt like a failure, physically and mentally. I stayed in this dark place for too long, and leaned on it as an excuse to stay in what had become a comfortable uncomfortable.
This is what has been spoken of for millenia as the underworld, and more recently the dark night of the soul.
I would not change a second of it.
Beneath it all, there was a small girl in me quiet, tired, always trying to be enough, in some places too much, She’d carried abandonment, rejection, and fear for a long time. She people-pleased to feel loved, and in doing so, gave up parts of her self. In the silence after everything fell apart, I finally began to meet her where she was, And started the work of bringing her home, piece by piece, truth by truth, for myself, for my lineage, before and after me.
That’s when something ancient stirred.
I began to feel energy in new ways. I wandered back to nature, not just for peace, but for remembering. Through Reiki, nature, gentle movement, alternative therapies ,connection and the slow, sacred process of rewilding, I began to rebuild, not into the old version of myself, but into someone deeper, truer, wilder.
Training, studing, deconstructing, experiencing, listening, witnessing and reintergrating. I met energy in the trees and in the quiet spaces between pain. I completed cycles that had been stuck and remembered that we are not separate from nature we are nature. That remembering changed everything.
Today, I hold space for others, because we don’t have to be in that dark space alone. Through wellbeing walks, and one-to-one rewilding therapy and circle facilitation, a space is created for those who are also walking their own thresholds of grief, healing, rebirth, inner child reclamation. This work isn’t about fixing. It’s about walking beside people as they walk home to their bodies, their Earth-roots, and their own truth.
Our body and souls are scarred, and all the more wise and beautiful because of it.
These are not a sob stories. These are power stories!
And it’s still unfolding, in every circle, every breath of wild air, with every brave person who chooses to remember who they are.
The Way Out Is In!
And you are not alone!
Thomas Moores Book “Dark Night of The Soul” is an epic guide on your journey.
Check how you can share the path with others through MindEmbodyWild’s offerings.
I am so glad you are here, you are so brave and I see you.
The Wildest Love,
Karly
Founder | MindEmbodyWild
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