Restoring your wild form

You were never meant to be shaped into a form convenient for someone else. A redwood tree was not designed to live in the confines of a clay pot. A violet flower cannot reach the height of a redwood no matter how desperately it reaches upward. There is a kind of suffering that emerges when we try to grow against our nature.

In botany, the term wild form refers to the natural, uncultivated expression of a plant species as it exists in nature. Before it is pruned, hybridized, or shaped by human hands. When we study the wild forms of plants, it is clear that the ways in which nature expresses herself is not neat, it’s not tidy, and it’s certainly not pure. Why then does much of the holistic wellness space ask us to uphold this image of perfection, when the very substrate that gives us life does not operate under these conditions?

Nature is messy. It’s unkempt, tangled, and unpredictable. The forest floor is death and rebirth happening simultaneously. The garden is never fully finished. Wildness is not rushing towards a destination, and neither should healing.

To restore your wild form is not to become someone different. It is to remember the shape your life wants to take when it is no longer forced out of rhythm with itself.

It is less about self-improvement and more about self-rememberence.

Here, we will explore herbalism, vitality, ecology, nourishment, rewilding, and the intelligence embedded within the living world. Not as trends or aesthetics, but as pathways back into kinship with the body, with the earth and the plants, and with the deeper patterns that sustain life itself.

Wild things are rarely neat, but they are almost always alive.

And they are always right on time.