The Wild Haul with Elise
Where feminine wisdom meet the wild truth of real life.
Through deeply personal storytelling, feminine wisdom, and grounded insight, Elise explores the wild terrain of womanhood: motherhood, marriage, betrayal, repair, healing, cycle awareness, spiritual hunger, embodiment, intuition, and the courage it takes to live more honestly inside your real life.
Here, we honor the initiations of women's lives and offer language for what is sacred, what is painful, what is changing, and what is asking to be reclaimed.
If you are in a season of unraveling, remembering, rebuilding, or becoming, this space will feel like truth spoken with warmth, depth, and reverence. The Wild Haul is where beauty meets grit, where feminine wisdom meets real-world responsibility, and where you come to hear the truth you can feel in your body.
Hosted by Elise Bowerman - raised to reach for homeopathy and natural medicine first, dancer, trained across multiple energetic modalities, birth and postpartum doula, perinatal yoga teacher, and the founder of Michigan’s first Registered Prenatal Yoga School. She is a mother of two teenagers and married to an entrepreneurial artist.
The Wild Haul with Elise
3: Feet on the ground - that is "the work"
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This episode is a pause.
A return to discernment in a world obsessed with healing, self-growth, and “doing the work.”
Reflection is beautiful. Healing matters. And… not every healing space is actually "healing." Not every facilitator is embodied. Not every invitation is rooted in integrity.
In this episode, I speak directly to a growing concern in spiritual and personal-growth communities: when growth becomes synonymous with disruption — when people are encouraged to burn down their lives and call it healing.
The work is your real life.
Showing up day after day as your highest self — in partnership, in motherhood, in friendships, in work, in honest conversations and clean boundaries.
Not escapism. Not avoidance. Not dramatic exits without embodiment.
EXPLORE
- Why we are not wired to hold everyone else’s life and suffering
- The difference between true growth and fear-based disruption
- Red flags in facilitators and groups that prioritize individual breakthroughs over the greater ecosystem of a woman’s life
- Why certification without embodiment is dangerous
- How integrity, frequency, and lived experience matter in healing spaces
- Why the grass is not greener when avoidance is the answer
EMBODIMENT INVITATION
In the next episode, you are invited into a guided visualization (personal practice) to tap into and remember your highest self.
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