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
12: Inner winter is training season
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This is Part II of episodes 9 (for HER) and 10 (for HIM), Inner Rhythms | Moon Cycle Mapping. So you may want to listen to one of those first.
Here, I will uncover the sacred season of inner winter — menstruation — and how it prepares women for the Wise Woman years.
EXPLORE
- The natural initiations of a woman’s life — menarche, maiden, motherhood, menopause
- What happens hormonally (in simple, clear language) during each phase
- Why postpartum rest is physiological — not indulgent
- The evolutionary power of the grandmother years
- Why culture’s obsession with youth harms women and our humanity
- How monthly menstruation prepares us for aging
- Small, embodied ways to begin honoring your inner winter today
This is a conversation about reclaiming aging as privilege.
About training your nervous system for longevity.
About modeling reverence — not resistance — to your daughters (and sons!).
You are not declining. You are ripening.
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