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Yolanda McAdam wanted to be a writer when she was twelve years old. She also wanted to be an astrologer. She was told neither one would bring in money. She finished high school and followed the family tradition of working for a bank.
She spent half her life feeling misunderstood-surrounded by people who deemed her strange for her ability to read the sky, to talk to birds and plants, for the small ritual gifts she left in clearings in wooded places. So she locked her heart away and threw away the key. Years later, she went looking for it again, the way a selkie goes looking for the sealskin someone else hid from her. She found it. She put it back on. And she stopped method-acting someone else's life and started living her own.
REWILDING is Yolanda's account of that reckoning, and a guide for any woman living through her own. Each chapter is built around one of the five classical elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Spirit-and moves through Story, Wisdom, Practice, and Reflection: her own hard-won experience, more than twenty years of work as a certified astrologer and life coach, rituals to try, and questions to sit with.
This is a book for the woman who senses that menopause is not an ending but an initiation. For the one quietly grieving the version of herself she set aside to be chosen, or acceptable, or easy to love. For anyone standing at midlife's threshold, listening for what her own silence has been trying to tell her.
REWILDING does not ask you to become someone new. It asks you to come home to who you have always been.
For readers of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Glennon Doyle, and Sue Monk Kidd-and for every woman ready to find her way back to shore.
She spent half her life feeling misunderstood-surrounded by people who deemed her strange for her ability to read the sky, to talk to birds and plants, for the small ritual gifts she left in clearings in wooded places. So she locked her heart away and threw away the key. Years later, she went looking for it again, the way a selkie goes looking for the sealskin someone else hid from her. She found it. She put it back on. And she stopped method-acting someone else's life and started living her own.
REWILDING is Yolanda's account of that reckoning, and a guide for any woman living through her own. Each chapter is built around one of the five classical elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Spirit-and moves through Story, Wisdom, Practice, and Reflection: her own hard-won experience, more than twenty years of work as a certified astrologer and life coach, rituals to try, and questions to sit with.
This is a book for the woman who senses that menopause is not an ending but an initiation. For the one quietly grieving the version of herself she set aside to be chosen, or acceptable, or easy to love. For anyone standing at midlife's threshold, listening for what her own silence has been trying to tell her.
REWILDING does not ask you to become someone new. It asks you to come home to who you have always been.
For readers of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Glennon Doyle, and Sue Monk Kidd-and for every woman ready to find her way back to shore.