Welcome to Your Wild: Nature-based Journaling

Welcome to Your Wild: Nature-Based Journaling for Your Inner Terrain

Here, we are reconnecting to the wildest parts of humanity to better understand ourselves. Evaluating and mapping our terrain in the human experience.

We live in a society that is increasingly less wild. We lose the wilderness every day to suburban developments and shopping strips, paving over the places that were once sacred landscapes. Society also pushes a clean, calm agenda. It asks for uniformity and compliance. It sells tickets to natural spaces and tells us to be grateful. We are told that healing is necessary and given a strict regimen for what healing should look like. We are told who we are, who we should be, and our ability for self-expression is limited by societal standards. We cannot express ourselves freely without fear of backlash. We have lost sight of the wild within.

What if….

What if you aren’t broken?

What if you are just weathered from life?

What if we are meant to heal wildly, feel wildly, and embrace the landscape below the surface? 

What if we rooted ourselves in community and mapped the wild adventure of our existence? What if we leveraged poetry and reimagined myth?

What if we wrote our own narrative?

What if we brought back the tradition of telling our stories around a campfire?

What if we gave ourselves permission to feel the thunder, speak our truths like lightning behind our teeth?

What if we embraced our hills and valleys? Both physically and metaphorically.

We don’t ask one landscape to look like all of the others.

What if we talked about what it means to have grief carve riverbeds in your soul?

What if we explored what it feels like to learn to swim against a current and navigate life all the while? What if we discussed burnout in real-time?

What if we talked about how it feels like a wildfire, suddenly consuming the life you love?

What if we examined how love can make us feel like we are on top of the world?

What if we looked at the journey to the top of your wildest success stories and held space for the journeys that ended prematurely?

What if we talked about the things that we hide within us?

What if we named the monsters that lurk in the forest caves of our chest?

What if we identified landmarks in the shadow spaces no one wants to wander through?

We can walk it together.

What if we lived out loud like birdsong in the morning and wind roaring across a prairie?

What if we were our own hero, carving new paths and exploring terrains we had been too afraid to discover?

I do not want to wonder.

I am made for knowing.

This is what WildTopography was made for.

It is made for you to live out loud, to map your story in personal myth or narrative. It is a community made for us to scream into the void and listen as our roars reverberate against the canyons we hold inside. Our beating heart drums as we walk our path and explore the aspects of ourselves we keep hidden.

Society tells us we need to be fixed and fit into a prescribed space. I feel too much to become someone's manicured flowerbed. I am not a rose garden in your local park. If I must be a rose, let me be the thorn that pushes back and reminds those who gaze upon it that there is balance in all things, beauty and pain go hand in hand. I am not ashamed. I am wild. I am holy. I am still becoming. I am unfinished. Beautifully alive.

Healing looks different for everyone. Rivers carve new paths. Forests regrow after devastation. Seasons do not apologize as they change. Everyone needs a good rain now and then. Roots reach out for nourishment in dark spaces. There is so much to learn about ourselves through the lens of nature. We are all learning, changing, growing, adapting, and blooming in various ways. We must stop thinking of ourselves as cogs in a machine and see ourselves as living ecosystems. Honor the landscapes within us.

WildTopography offers you a landing place to map your inner world. You can examine the weather you are carrying within and write about internal storms. This is a place to identify patterns that come with each season, what grows safely in you, and what needs to be shed. WildTopography is a space where you can say where you are suffering drought and where floods of feelings are moving through you. It gives you room to tend your inner self without judgment. It is a place where you write your narrative. We can look at our natural roots in awe. We can create a ritual to honor ourselves and our place in the world. We can journal to preserve a memory. We can reflect on life and all that comes with it. Here, in this corner of the world, you can be messy and beautiful. You can talk about devastation and rebuild your landscapes in your own time. We no longer have to identify as “too much”. We are everything, fault lines and vast seas. We are mountains and moonlight on midnight jasmine.

Take a deep breath and let's begin the expedition.

Welcome to your inner terrain.

For more, join WildPulse — the wild heartbeat of WildTopography, where you’ll receive journal prompts, rituals, blessings, and reflections to help you begin mapping your own inner landscape. You are welcome around our campfire anytime. Come join the WildOnes Community!