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The Wild Goddess
The Wild Goddess Podcast is a space of re-enchantment — where ancient wisdom and modern life meet.
Here you’ll find folklore, myth, storytelling, goddess wisdom, and seasonal living woven together as medicine for the soul.
Each episode is a descent and a rising: moving through forgotten tales, reflective conversations, meditations, and raw truths that call you back to your own magic.
This is a place for women craving depth in a surface-level world — for those ready to remember their power, reclaim their voice, and live in rhythm with the wild cycles of nature and the feminine.
Come for the mythic storytelling and soul-stirring reflection. Stay for the moments of beauty, honesty, and re-enchantment that remind you: your story is sacred.
The Wild Goddess
Ep 70 - Self-Development vs Self-Nurturing: A Mythic Path Back to Ourselves
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In a world that constantly encourages us to improve, optimise, and become “better,” I’ve found myself asking a quieter question lately…
What if the real path isn’t self-development, but self-nurturing?
In this episode, I’m exploring the gentle but powerful difference between self-development and self-nurturing through the lens of myth, folklore, seasonal living, earth-based rituals, and goddess connection.
I share my own journey, from consuming traditional self-growth content to finding a deeper sense of understanding through story, land, and ancient wisdom. Because somewhere along the way, I stopped asking “how do I fix myself?” and started asking “how do I tend to myself?”
We also talk about nuance, something I feel is deeply missing in modern conversations about growth.
The truth is, we are complex beings.
We can want to be kind and still make mistakes.
We can grow without demanding perfection from ourselves or others.
Through myth and folklore, I’ve come to see that even the gods were layered and flawed!
Story reminds us that contradiction is human, and that growth is rarely simple or linear.
This episode is a soft, reflective exploration of:
self-nurturing vs self-development, human nuance, mythology as a mirror, seasonal living, and learning to see ourselves with more compassion.
Not as problems to be fixed.
But as stories still unfolding.
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