The Wild Haul with Elise
A slow-burn, no-tiptoe podcast where womanhood is held with depth and heat.
Hosted by Elise Bowerman - raised to reach for homeopathy and natural medicine first, dancer, trained across multiple energy modalities, birth and postpartum doula, and the founder of Michigan’s first Registered Prenatal Yoga School - this is where lived experience meets unapologetic truth. Elise is a mother to two teenagers and married to an entrepreneurial artist.
Each episode is guided by what’s real, what’s rising, and what can’t be ignored. Expect embodied wisdom and raw conversations that invite reflection into what your heart already knows: there is more available than what you’ve been told.
Rooted in the earth - and devoted to the finer things, too - "The Wild Haul with Elise" is for the woman who is done performing, ready to embrace her natural gifts, and willing to live differently.
The Wild Haul with Elise
2: Backstroke Season
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Some seasons require grit. Others require release.
In this episode, Elise shares a raw, real-time reflection on what it means to choose the path of least resistance—not as avoidance, but as a return to inner peace. When life hands you a reality you can’t control, surrender can become a form of strength: the moment you stop fighting what is, your body can finally exhale.
This is an episode about nervous system truth, the private life we can’t outrun, and the strange mix of grief and relief that can arrive in the same breath. If you’ve been freestyling—pushing, forcing, trying to hold it all together—this might be your invitation into “backstroke season”: belly up, eyes to the sky, trusting you’ll reach shore.
A gentle note: this episode includes discussion of divorce and emotional overwhelm.
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