What does it mean to rewild our souls and reauthenticate our inner self? Join us in this week's episode, Rewilding Our Souls, as we continue our Talk Story Time Series, where Dr. BethAnne shares selected passages from her books and offers dialogue and wisdom inspired by her journey.
Key talking points include:
- Personal reflections on times when she felt called to the rewilding process
- The importance of rewilding and how it supports our heart wisdom
- Inspiration to carve out space for our spiritual connection and inner voice
- Live poetry readings, storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and candid reflections
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Selected Readings/Books Shared in Episode:
Wild and Free from Revelations of The Sky
I'm a Rainbow Too from Transformations of The Sun
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[0:13] Rewilding the soul through self-reflection and integration.
Aloha and welcome to Your Heart magic and illuminating space where psychology spirituality and heart wisdom meet. Here's your host, Dr. BethAnne Kapansky. Wright, the clinical psychologist with a mystic mind.
Aloha, everybody. Welcome to Your Heart magic.
This is Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wright. And we have a talk storytime Episode Today where I will be sharing some passages from some of my writing and works. And that's always around a central theme. And today the theme is rewilding our soul. So I have three selections, I'm excited to share. And each of them reflect an idea that are tied into this idea of rewilding, the inner self re authenticating ourselves.
And I always enjoy talk story episodes, because they're less scripted. I have no notes other than the passages I want to read today. But I thought before I dove and that I would take a moment and share a little bit about like, what does it mean to rewild our soul? What does it mean to retail our soil. And I think that throughout our lifespan throughout our development, that there are times that things start to feel stale, or we began to feel disconnected from ourselves or disconnected from our truth.
And this can happen for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it happens if we've been stuck in a rut for a while or circumstances feel like they have lent themselves to being in a holding pattern. Sometimes it happens if we haven't had adequate space to tend to our inner world, or we've had a lot happening circumstantially and in our outside world, and we really need to come into a space of integration inside of ourselves. And sometimes that happens, and it's really tied into something that has more to do with an internal timing, or a Soul Cycle, or something that has to do with aging and development. There are certain developmental phases and rites of passage that we move through as we age through our timeline.
And so there's these questions of identity and self that we will be asked to show up for in our inner self and our inner world. And a lot of times we are called into a rewilding process. And it's a combination of both, we start to notice in our external circumstances that we feel bored or restless, or just content or somehow disconnected. And maybe we feel the soul rumblings inside of us where something feels like it's a little bit off, or we feel like we need to go deep sea diving and search for our truth. And anytime we make space to get in touch with our inner world, and to let it be a little bit, not a little bit to let it be unscripted, to let it be unfiltered, to maybe do something that allows us to come into our inner sanctum.
[3:40] Rewilding, finding solitude, and connecting with nature.
Sometimes we might take a retreat or do a class or go on some extravagant trip and nature by extravagant. I just mean, like, maybe we take a full week, and we're just gonna go off grid. And there is something about that, that track or that journey, or where we're staying that we're hoping to make space for solitude, and to listen to ourselves. When we use the word rewilding, there is an element of the unknown and there right, if something's wild, it's untamed.
We can't quite define it. We can't quite put language or a shape around. This is what it is to rewild. It's more creating space for this process to happen. And opening to a space of listening to ourselves, getting into our hearts listening for spiritual connection, making room for new epiphanies or insights to come through, making room for guidance to come through. Sometimes we might seek out a rewilding space, where we do go on some sort of big retreat, or an elaborate trip to Bali to go to yoga camp. And sometimes rewilding can be very humble.
You don't have to have lots of money and the ability to travel and tons of time. time or energy to make it happen, though I think we probably do want some time or trying to carve out time even in a busy schedule. I think rewilding is more about an intention and a mindset and an attitude. And I'll give a good example of that right now. You know, I make this podcast, I have a new episode that comes out weekly, I want them to feel fresh, I want them to feel vibrant, I want my work to feel fresh and vibrant. I want my writing to feel that way. I want that for myself. And I think the risk of teaching things that I've learned is that after a while, it's easy for anybody who teaches to have a sense of staleness, to it, like you're saying the same old thing, and a different way for like the 100th time. And that's never been my intention.
And it's not really a place that I've arrived at. But I can see how people get there when they're just showing up and doing the same thing. And so for me, spending time in nature, and being outside writing poetry, listening to what nature has to say to me, going down to the ocean, trying to stay open, and trying to stay in a space of knowing that I have to fill myself up and have new encounters with the Divine and new encounters with nature and new encounters with creativity, to keep things feeling fresh and vital and alive.
For me that's really important. And then that translates to anything that I feel called to share with anybody else. And so I have been in an rewilding process right now and sort of set the intention for this summer that I was going to be doing some reauthentication. And just coming back into my inner self and trying to make space for that. So there's many ways that we do that work of self. But that is a little bit of an overview of what rewilding is, and with that, the first passage I'm going to share is from revelations of the sky, and it's called receding our soul.
All good things are wild and free. It's true, I thought, sometimes we must repattern rewild, and reseed our soul, learn to see disruptions as life's way of breaking us out of our daily stream of consciousness, and giving us space to see things from a new lens. So we can be liberated from dead roots of self that no longer serve our highest growth, we must return to the soil of self and be with the wild of the Earth, freeing ourselves from old paradigms, constraints and beliefs, allowing ourselves to return to seed and dare to face the shock of new so we can grow outrageous blooms. All good things are wild and free. It's true, I thought, nature, love, authenticity, Moonlight, creativity, imagination and dreams, wild and free and tinged with butterfly wings and unicorn wisdom and Dragon tears, which create sacred pools where we can swim in between with the mysteries of nature returns, rewires and re Wilds.
Need a friend, talk to a tree needed joy, talk to a flower, need to ground talk to the earth, need to flow and let go talk to the sea. And if you need to release all that would weigh you down and shackle you to lesser things that don't reflect the divine truth of your soul. Walk outside with bare souls, or take a bath and let the water heal your soul. Let all be renewed and released. As you remember, in your heart, the words of the row. All good things are wild and free. I have a handful of passages that I feel like are favorites.
[9:03] Rewilding through movement and self-discovery.
And that's one of them. And I wrote that in the summer of I believe 2019. And at the time, I was very much in a rewilding process and asking big questions around my purpose and my journey and what's next for me. But I was really enjoying time in nature. And I always enjoy time in nature. But I was being very intentional about spending time in nature and noticing nature and trying to really be present and pay attention to the way a flower looked or how a tree felt to really pay attention to my surroundings and take in that wisdom. Nature is a very natural and easy teacher on rewilding. We don't have to try when we're in nature.
We can just be out there and take a hike or sit by the water or allow that energy to bring us to a more primitive unrestrained A place inside of ourselves that's not bound by as many social structures and not bound by some of our thought limitations and arguments for why we can't do something. Nature encourages us to envision and dream big and to find more grace and acceptance for the process of our life. So if you don't know what to do, but you know, you need some rewilding plan to spend a little bit of time in nature and be intentional about that even if it's just going to the park, or accessing something that is close to you or something that you're able to access. It will do worlds of wonders for your soul.
So this next passage is from transformations of the sun, and I'm smiling thinking about reading it. The title is I'm a rainbow to it sticky outside the breeze as a welcome relief and day is softly changing into Twilight. I'm at a movement class called flow.
I shut, swaying and listening to Bob Marley saying, sun is shining, and the weather is sweet, makes you want to move your dancing feet. I feel like I'm in another world. And in one sense I am. This moment of dance and tropical warmth that embodies the sense of expansive movement that exist on this island is a new world for me. Even the dancing I'm doing here is different than anything I've done before. I curve and turn and do weird things with my limbs that make me feel like I'm a kid playing and pleasure oblivious to anything else. In this moment, I revel in the newness, revel and the change and revel in the information. I am actually here on kawaii and this little dance studio moving like the trees, and that this is my life.
Most of all, I revel in what it feels like to have the space to be somebody new to be this girl at this moment in time, whoever she's turning into. I'm so grateful for my existence in this space and the opportunity to explore after we flowed and twirled and twisted and curled the last part of classes on the floor on our backs. focusing on the breath, feeling the energy of the body, I noticed the orange streaks of Sunset that are peeking through the studio's window. Brent and love and light are woven through each of them. magic and wonder and mystery as the words when the morning gathers the rainbow, I want you to know that I'm a rainbow to I'm a rainbow to I'm a rainbow to fill the space. And I don't want to be anywhere else. But in this love and this space on this floor watching peaches and tangelos stream across the sky is guava pinks come out and begin to gather the stars. feeling the breeze, the ceiling fan on my face, feeling the happy dance so my own heartbeat feeling into the space of my own possibility.
That piece was written in July or August of 2017. And I probably lived on kawaii for maybe a month, maybe about five weeks at that time. And I stumbled into this little dance studio that it's no longer open. But it was in the town of Kilauea.
[13:35] Finding reinvention and transformation.
And it was really delightful while it was open, and there was this flow class that was just about movement, and about doing weird things with your body and being fun and joyful and moving. And anybody could come and it was so freeing. And I think to be in that moment and have the beauty and privilege of being in the space of feeling so free. And being in a space of being like oh my gosh, like we manifested this move. We're here I'm here. I'm doing the thing. I'm reinventing myself. And I'm doing new things who will I become? And of course, Brent had only been gone for about a year and a half at that time. So he was just wrapped up and everything I did at the time. He is I mean he's always a part of me. But he is such a part of the change to come to kawaii and the first couple of years on the island because so often I thought if not for Brent, I wouldn't be here I wouldn't have found the courage to make this move.
And this move was about reinvention. It was about this very intentional rewilding process of completely rewilding identity and understanding myself in a new way. And rewilding does not have to be that dramatic for me this was sole purpose meets life destiny needs deciding to take this leap of faith and true really know the answer to the question, Who will I become if I do this thing that's in my heart to do. And everything about that time of my life just feels shiny and the sense that it was an unrepeatable beautiful experience that I could feel I would never live through again, that seems so silly to say, right? Like we never lived through anything. Again, that's the idea of being present, Every moment is new and novel.
But it was a time in my life that I knew that there was this novelty to it, and this transformative, beautiful energy that I likely would never repeat anything like that and choose to just up and move somewhere like that again, and be in this very foreign, but yet familiar place. So it was a delightful memory delightful to share. And the last piece that I want to share today is called new eyes. And if you're listening to this, and you're thinking, like, Oh, I really want to rewild that I'm not going to up and move to an island and I'm feeling kind of stuck right now. Or I'm known, I don't have the space to do this dramatic thing.
[16:10] Seeking new perspectives for personal growth and rewilding.
That's okay, this one is for you. new eyes. There are times when change is necessary. When it's time to change something in our outer world and make a big shake up or move. Sometimes change and circumstances are good, healthy or necessary. But sometimes big change is not available to us. Maybe your external circumstances don't allow for it. Or we're at a time in our lives when the relationships situations and responsibilities around us don't necessarily allow for the freedom to radically shake things up. Or we might just find that regardless of our circumstances, we chronically think the grass is greener on the other side, that if we only had this or that or the other life would somehow be better. Ultimately, we are the only ones who can truly ascertain what we need and how to best create new space in our lives. Sometimes though, all we really need is new eyes to see the old.
So it can be looked at a new, we can find a fresh perspective that brings a sense of rewilding and reordering to our days, we can take a deep breath. And remember that we have limitless choices when we tap into our hearts wisdom. And remember the scope of our capability. We can look at our lives and see each tiny gift and small wonder for what it is a reflection of the miracle that is this brief, glorious whisper of riotous life, every now and then, when I need freshness to my gaze, or I am feeling pulled down into a space of lack of appreciation, or negativity or anywhere where I will start to feel kind of gray for overly long. And I know that I don't want to stay in that place. It's an honest place. We all go through ups and downs.
But I like to try and choose a higher perspective as much as I can. And it feels better, to feel positive and to connect with the light and to connect with joy. It feels better. And it supports us I think when we're able to do this and so sometimes, I think that just saying the prayer give me new eyes, give me i to see my life through a new lens, give me a new vision, give me a new perspective. helped me to see these things helped me to do my part so that I can use new eyes helped me to do my part. So I can find a fresh perspective, guide me and direct me and help bring into my path ways that might shake things up. And I think that can be a beautiful prayer to pray a beautiful intention to set if we are in the need of rewilding, but we're not quite sure how to bring that about for ourselves. Or we're not in a position to do something big to manifested. Or maybe we're wondering, I don't know what I really need.
And maybe I think the grass is greener, or I'm yearning for something that isn't mine to have. Maybe I can just be content in my own life. And we're unclear if something is a dream calling to us or a siren song. And if it's really meant for us and I think at that time, it's so helpful to remember we're not alone. And the rewilding process. We're never alone on the journey and our best partner for this free authentication of self and coming back to our souls. Truth is our heart and our spiritual connection that we are able to access through our heart. It is asking for help and saying, This is a goal I'm setting an intention to create a new gaze to see to see my life. If shooken up and a new way, so I can see the light I missing so I can see the beauty so I can see where change needs to take place. And I can see where I need to change. So I can better find grace for the place that I'm at.
So no matter where we are, there's always a way to retail our soil. And to come into that soulful place inside of ourselves. That's not a process that can be rushed. But it is one that we can continue to stay open to and to put our request to the universe out as a co participant in life, and say, I am actively seeking right now to be able to see things through new eyes. When I wrote that first passage wild and free i for all the newness I shared with you. And that second passage, I'm a rainbow trout, I'm a rainbow to for all the newness I'd found then by the time I wrote that next one, I was used to living on kawaii and as much as I tried to hang on to that fresh energy of like, oh my gosh, I did it. I did the thing. I'm here. That wasn't meant to last I also had to put down roots and figure out like, Well, what do I do with my life now? And in the process of those more grittier questions, things got familiar.
And I started to feel like I was questioning myself and questioning my path. And am I really doing these things because they feel authentic? Or am I doing them? Because I feel like it's, it's expected of me. And those are all good questions to ask. They're an evaluation that we might do in a rewilding practice. And so something I was working on when I wrote that first piece was just noticing the tiny things in nature and noticing the tiny things in life, and allowing myself to find joy and the tiny moments of the day and let the big questions go for now, trusting that the answers would come, I needed new eyes to be able to really appreciate the gifts on the island. So no matter where we are, we can always ask for new eyes and ask for a new clear gaze. And we can always find a way to work with the rewilding process.
Thank you so much for joining me for this talk story episode. I will be back next week with a new archetypes of the Tarot. And we will be talking about the card the Tower and talking about tower energy and what to do when the tower enters our lives. And what does that mean? That actually feels really nice. I didn't plan it that way. But I realized following this particular episode, that's a perfect archetype to look at because the tower is all about things being shaken up, and how we work with disruptions in consciousness in our life and disruptions and circumstance. So that is coming up next week. In the meantime, have a beautiful week and as always be well be love you and be magic.
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