Wild Awake Wellness

21/03/2023

Tarot 101 is back Sundays in April! 🌟
As a reminder, if you can’t make the live, weekly classes, recordings are available to watch at your own pace.
This 30 day Tarot intro course includes:

💫 Weekly virtual classes and instruction
💫 Worksheets + Recordings
💫 Bonus community Tarot reading day
💫 Discounts and goodies
💫 Tarot instruction rooted in intuitive insight, self reflection, storytelling and journaling (instead of memorization)
💫 Community based + personalized learning
Learn more and register at the link in my bio or
🔗 ScoutWildAwake.com/Tarot101

15/03/2023

07/03/2023

I spent the last 8 days falling in love with New York City in a brand new way. My teaching circuit has brought me here for years but on this particular trip I had the opportunity of staying in West Village, teaching and hanging out in Brooklyn, visiting friends in Jersey and exploring the boroughs via train adventures. New York will definitely be a frequent stop…
… but for now, I’m very excited to be returning home.
🌱 I miss green things that grow out of the ground.
See you soon Austin ✨

27/01/2023

Tarot 101 is finally here ✨
Wednesdays in February I’ll be offering an intro to Tarot course. Become familiar with your deck, learn about the major and minor arcana through storytelling, and build a relationship with an intuitive practice (outside of memorization).
Choose your price and join us! This course will be kept small and intentional so reserve your space today.
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25/01/2023

Y’all!!! I’m so excited to announce that I have put together a course for midwives and birth workers on intermittent auscultation in the community birth setting!!!💛
If you are a licensed Texas midwife, please DM for a code.💛
If you’re a student, please DM for a code. 💛
Link to the course is in my bio!!💛

02/01/2023

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the best associations with the term “discipline”. For so much of my life I thought I had issues with discipline. It would confuse me because in some areas I felt incredibly structured and consistent while other areas of my life things seemed to fall through the cracks. I couldn’t figure it out, was I being too loose in my structure? Through the lens of “self discipline” it always seemed easier to be hard on myself, overwork myself, withhold self compassion and “drive myself” toward perceived success. Whether I was trying to “avoid procrastination”, meet outward/social expectations, reach career goals and even when it came to my rituals and spiritual journey, I figured the remedy was more discipline, more structure. Discipline directly dictates a disregard for emotions or energy and pure dedication to the task. Why wasn’t I dedicated enough?
Disregarding your emotional or energetic state in order to “succeed” leaves a wide open door to shame when the task doesn’t get completed in an ideal way.

In 2022 my main focus was to shift this perspective from discipline to devotion. Devotion is birthed from love for the self. Devotion is compassionate, soft and honors your natural flow. The concept of being devoted to my rituals, to the support of my future self, to my body’s truth, resonates deeper than bullying myself into being disciplined. With a devotional mindset I approach my tasks, rituals and duties with radical acceptance and I allow myself to show up in whatever capacity I have available - without judgement. As a result, this concept of devotion and this radical self acceptance has bled into all areas of my being and my life.

So as we begin the Gregorian year, my suggestion and hope for you all is to leann into devotion to self, devotion to your joy, devotion to what you are creating for yourself, and perhaps consider releasing the idea that discipline is the way. I truly believe the path back to the truth of our wholeness, our divinity our complete nature is self compassion and softness.
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31/12/2022

✨Ritual Club✨
I’m answering the call to bring back my ritual community circles in 2023, and we are going to be meeting the weeks of the full moon and the weeks of the new moon in the new year.
I have been intentionally theme setting and meditating on next year, gaining some insight through the cards and considering various things I’d like to share with you throughout the year.
Join me 2x a month for (virtual) Ritual Club 🌙
🙏🏾 drop in $15
🙏🏾 monthly exchange $20
🎥 recordings available for those who register.
More info @ the link in my bio &
Www.scoutwildawake.com/ritualclub

23/12/2022

“i like my nativities
with a side of heresy
with midwives and mothers
and empty mangers
and full arms

i like wise women
over wise men
attending to bloody people
born and crucified
showing up in places
church leaders won’t go

i like heralding feminist agendas
and trouble
and god’s good news
which is kind of repetitive
since they’re all the same thing

proper churches
want proper nativities
because women’s bodies
are shameful
whether bearing christ
or just bare

and instead of silent nights
i like loud protests
because
be silent
is not a phrase about joy
but about control

so give me a christmas
without white supremacy
and bright s*xism
where the story of a baby
becomes a story of a woman
and my nativity looks like
god’s
and not like
man’s”

-Kaitlin Hardy Shetler,

¨The Creation of Man¨ by Miss Aniela aka Natalie Lennard

13/12/2022

A friend who walks this life path with me explained once why she does what we do. And it got me thinking:

Why we would pick a “gross” job. Why we would upend our own schedules, skip sleep, and meals, and sometimes even bathroom breaks. Why we would choose to love people at their most vulnerable and most powerful. Both at once, and so much more.

I do this work because the first birthing person I supported worked for two days in an ice storm to bring her baby forth. Others would have wavered, but not her— and her courage bolstered me. If she wasn’t giving up, I damn sure wasn’t quitting on her. She roared out her second babe squatted on my thighs a few years later.

I do this work because support is just as important when everything goes right as when it all goes upside down and nothing is as they planned. When I kneel between someone’s legs as they weep, exhausted and worn, and tell them they can go on, but perhaps the plan should change.

I do this work because I will never move faster with my heart in my throat than upon receiving a phone call from a person losing their pregnancy, “I need you. Please help me.”

I do this work because parents are born just as babies are— on the side of the road, in a hospital lobby, in a bathtub, in the places we plan and the places we don’t.

I do this work because just as parents are born with their babies, people choose to NOT parent, and babies are born for others to raise, or not born at all— because a hand to hold when you feel the weight of a judgmental world upon you makes a life-altering difference.

What some say they could “never,” I see as a calling, yes, but also a choice. Supporting birthing people where they are is what I do. People have supported and attended each other from the first birth, and nothing will shake me. I carry forward the weight of our shared history, the mantle of helping transition someone from person to the added layer of parent.

It’s not always raw power. It’s not always beautiful. Sometimes it is tragedy and tears. And it is always, ALWAYS love, from my heart and soul to my client’s.

“Love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.”

Ashley French
- Revolution Birth Services

08/12/2022

Gemini Full Moon 🌕🌑
My spirit self is alien 👽
What if you stopped trying to identify every feeling, source every feeling, breakdown every emotional workflow and you just focused on FEELING your feelings?
There is so much to this process of life that can’t be quantified. The Gemini full moon reminds us that we have many facets, some seemingly contradicting or opposite. All aspects of our “self” identity deserve respect, compassion and recognition. Under this full moon your human self and spirit self both take center stage as the Gemini twins. We bring things into internal and eternal harmony through acceptance, love and an open door.
I sent these above photos to a familiar soul I crossed paths with in Mexico, a person who recognized my non earthly aspects in an honoring way.
“I’m up in the air and this view reminds me of leaving the planet.”
I spend much of the year firmly planted with my feet on the ground, but there is something about the conclusion of the calendar year, something about this season and the full moon that takes me back up in the air.
BRB I’m living in the vibe, floating and embracing every feeling that comes my way. I invite you to join me in falling out of your head and falling into your body, and falling in *love* with the beauty of current circumstance.
“How are you feelin?” is not a rhetorical or throw away question.

29/11/2022

It’s giving Tuesday 🤲🏾
Thank you all for your support so far in my midwifery journey. I am currently 15 months in and finishing up requirements for phase 2/3 of the processes required to apply to sit for the NARM test and become a registered midwife.
Juggling midwifery as a student is a joy and also incredibly laborious for the spirit, adrenals, lifestyle and pocketbook. Student midwives serve community and also depend on community for sustainability in their arrival to serve.
Thank you for considering a donation to to support my journey.

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