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It is the realm of the limbic system; the primal, the non-verbal, the pulse of our lives.</p><p>It lives in the love I pour into cooking for my people. In the reverence of my touch, my kiss.</p><p>It&#8217;s <em>joie de vivre</em>&#8212;the wild joy of being fully alive, and it&#8217;s also grief, longing, and lonely Saturday nights.</p><p>Wildness isn&#8217;t chaos. It&#8217;s aliveness.<br>Presence is the entire experience, held.</p><p><strong>Holding My Wildness</strong> is the intersection of feeling fully and staying grounded enough to be with the experience, without being consumed by it.</p><p>This space is an exploration of the parts of me that ache, rejoice, smile wide, heal, burn. I won&#8217;t always write with polish, but I will write from truth.</p><p>Here, I explore what it means to stay with my body, my Eros, my grief, my love. It&#8217;s a place to wrestle and reflect with the Wildman inside.</p><p>You&#8217;ll find a live journal of (mostly) unedited thoughts, alongside reflections from lived experience with men&#8217;s work, therapy, and the tools I&#8217;ve leaned on to expand my capacity to hold, while feeling fully.<br><br>This is a living process. I am not above it, I am in it. And if you&#8217;ve made it this far, then we&#8217;re already walking beside each other.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.holdingmywildness.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Holding My Wildness! 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