Wild Women Healers:
[a documentary series]
How it all started …
The year was 2016 and I had just quit a very toxic job at a popular women’s magazine to go back to freelancing. It was scary thing to do as someone with an autoimmune disorder and general anxiety but I was a freelancer for most of my career and I was getting really sick working at that corporate job. (Emotionally and literally)
Then tr*mp got elected and it just felt like, it’s now or never. It was time to start doing what I wanted to be doing.
I had been making videos for other people for a SO long, and had always wanted to work on my own project for no other reason than the love of making art and storytelling. I wanted to a make something that was just mine, and had nothing to do with money.
At the time, I was also reading “Women Who Run with the Wolves,” a book that I will dramatically say changed my life.
And so I was basically losing sleep because this wild idea was keeping me up at night, or rather Wild Woman was visiting me, urging me forward. I wanted to do something to help the world. I wanted to do my part.
And so, I started ….
“The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss.”
- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves
And so I leapt into the unknown ...
I started with healers and teachers I knew and loved and worked with.
I started talking about it like I it was my job to do so.
I started following my intuition, little by little.
And it was so amazing, and so god damn hard, too.
I ran out of money.
I ended friendships.
I changed jobs.
I left an abusive relationship.
I healed.
I would abandon my work and return over and over again until I found the strength to keep going.
My technology failed me, but my creativity and ingenuity kept me going.
I needed to do this project.
“You gave me a gift, it was like therapy watching this video.”
— Jessyka Winston of Haus of Hoodoo (Wild Women Healer in Ep. 7)
A love letter to storytelling.
"Wild Women Healers" is a documentary series that comes straight from my heart. Combining my passion for filmmaking, storytelling, and the healing arts, this series features one amazing, bad-ass healer each episode.
It is a series about powerful healers and their journeys to answer a calling to help others. Coming from different backgrounds and disciplines, these special people each have their own unique points of view and gifts that they are sharing with the world. I met them all along my own path of self-love, healing and discovery, and so in part, this series is coming from a place of gratitude to the healers being featured, and is also my way of giving back to the wellness community that has become such a big part of my life over the last 7 years.
I think that every single person on this planet can benefit from the stories being share in Wild Women Healers. It may inspire you to go after a new interest, pursue a passion or start your own business. And I hope that it also will show you that there is help out there in many different forms and people who want to genuinely support you and show you the way to feeling better and more whole.
Lastly, Wild Women Healers is honoring the Divine Feminine nature that resides in all of us. When we tap into that type of supportive and nurturing source, the world responds and sends us the exact medicine that we need and crave.
The title inspiration comes from "Women Who Run With The Wolves," by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD.