The Wild Haul with Elise
Where feminine wisdom meet the wild truth of real life.
Through deeply personal storytelling, feminine wisdom, and grounded insight, Elise explores the wild terrain of womanhood: motherhood, marriage, betrayal, repair, healing, cycle awareness, spiritual hunger, embodiment, intuition, and the courage it takes to live more honestly inside your real life.
Here, we honor the initiations of women's lives and offer language for what is sacred, what is painful, what is changing, and what is asking to be reclaimed.
If you are in a season of unraveling, remembering, rebuilding, or becoming, this space will feel like truth spoken with warmth, depth, and reverence. The Wild Haul is where beauty meets grit, where feminine wisdom meets real-world responsibility, and where you come to hear the truth you can feel in your body.
Hosted by Elise Bowerman - raised to reach for homeopathy and natural medicine first, dancer, trained across multiple energetic modalities, birth and postpartum doula, perinatal yoga teacher, and the founder of Michigan’s first Registered Prenatal Yoga School. She is a mother of two teenagers and married to an entrepreneurial artist.
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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