The Wild and Wise
A series of conversations dedicated to the process of creating wellness, within ourselves and in our communities, in this time of deep transformation. We explore processes, practices, and ideas that resource our personal healing and illuminate the interplay between personal and collective liberation. Ashley and Mallika dive deep into these topics, together and with powerful healers, thinkers and change-makers, giving you a variety of ways to deepen your own connection to yourself and those around you. Ashley is Somatic Movement Therapist and ceremonialist dedicated to tending children, body, land, and spirit. Mallika is a licensed marriage and family therapist committed to creating containers that weave together spiritual and relational healing. In this show, you will learn pathways to healing so that you can awaken the wild and wise parts of yourself and grow your capacity to live a connected, sovereign, and creative life, in right relationship with all beings. Hit subscribe and get ready to come alive in ways you’ve always wanted.
The Wild and Wise
Grief and Motherhood Entwined with Amber Magnolia Hill
ep. #20
In today's episode, Mallika shares a conversation she had back in early December with Amber Magnolia Hill. Amber shares a lot about her personal experience loosing her mother in a car accident 5 years ago. She graces us with her vulnerability and authentic emotional experience as we dive into what It means to loose someone so vital, how she continues to tend her relationship with her mother and the entwined relationship with life/death-tending and motherhood.
Amber's Instagram
Amber's website Mythic Medicine
Amber's Podcast Medicine Stories
Things we dive into in this episode:
- Amber's experience of the grief of loosing her mother
- Little "g" and big "G" grief
- Grief is sacred space that continues to hold your relationship to something that existed.
- The darkness that thrives on the feeling of being alone
- The Inevitability of loss and death
- How our culture is set up to deny death
- Spontaneous, simple rituals to remember
- Angelica, Osha and Violet - plants for allowing and supporting grief
- The grief the come with motherhood
- Impact of raising children outside of village/community
- Motherhood and tending life and death
- Creating containers for children that minimize cultural trauma
- Healing and emotional self-regulation for ourselves as parents
- The collective grief we are feeling during Covid
- The complexity that can be held inside a conversation
The Denial of Death by Earnest Becker
The Belonging Podcast
Atlantic Article The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
Rachelle Garcia Seliga Innate Traditions
Inuit Morality Play book about parenting
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Brené Brown podcast with David Kessler
Ashley's website
Ashley's Instagram
Ashley's Parent Prayer Circle
Mallika's website
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process