![]() ![]() Published in 2011, this Christian “man’s” book seems to be quite confused. (No, we’re not talking about the book by John Eldredge, Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul) When you have a wild front, you embrace vulnerability, courage, and true authenticity and belonging (rather than fake “trying-to-fit-in”). In the words of shame researcher Brene Brown, But when you’re wild at heart, you know how to ride these waves. Much of the time, this journey is filled with ups and down–natural waves of life. Life is a journey, a beautiful path to discover and wonder and enjoy. In the heart of every woman or man is wildness and adventure. ![]() Read our full disclosure policy, click here. But we learned to wear the name with pride.*This post may contain affiliate links. Weyward, they called us, when we would not submit, would not bend to their will. It was men who marked us so, in the time when language was but a shoot curling from the earth. We did not need stonemasons to carve our names into rock as proof we had existed.Īll we needed was to be returned to the wild. Instead, the Weyward bones rested in the woods, in the fells, where our flesh fed plants and flowers, where trees wrapped their roots around our skeletons. Our ancestors-the women who walked these paths before us, before there were words for who they were-did not lie in the barren soil of the churchyard, encased in rotting wood. Why the crows-the ones who carry the sign-watch over us and do our bidding, why their touch brings our abilities into sharpest relief. That is why roots and leaves yield so easily under our fingers, to form tonics that bring comfort and healing. The animals, the birds, the plants-they let us in, recognizing us as one of their own. We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow, or joy. There was something about us-the Weyward women-that bonded us more tightly with the natural world.
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