Tag: Rewilding

  • A Quiet Christmas Reckoning

    A Quiet Christmas Reckoning

    Seven Days to Stop Fucking Around With Your Life

    Christmas Day has a way of softening us.

    The world pauses. The noise dips. The pretending quiets for a moment.

    And in that quieter space, truth gets louder.

    So let me say this gently and clearly because I’m saying it to myself first:

    I refuse to drag a half-ass version of myself into the new year. 🏇

    There will be zero numbing, circling, rationalizing, or spiritualizing stagnation.

    I’m not interested in knowing better without living better.

    This is not a shaming post.

    This is not a motivational quote carousel.

    This is a total fucking reckoning.

    Because here’s the real question no one asks themselves honestly enough:

    Where are you absolutely dominating your life?

    And more importantly, where are you avoiding yourself?

    Not where you used to be strong.

    Not where you look competent.

    Where are you actually alive, expanded, grounded?

    Where are you fully expressed?

    And where are things just… not working?

    Where does energy stall?

    Where does resentment whisper?

    Where do you keep saying “soon,” “after,” or “when things settle down”?

    Because here’s the uncomfortable truth we all feel but rarely name:

    Most of us aren’t afraid of failure.

    We’re afraid of what happens when we stop hiding.

    We’re afraid of what it would mean to fully show up…

    in our bodies,

    in our voices,

    in our work,

    in our relationships,

    in our devotion to our own becoming.

    So let me ask you the questions I’m asking myself today.

    Zero theatrics and no spiritual bullshit:

    Where am I powerful and pretending it doesn’t matter?

    Where am I exhausted because I keep negotiating with a life I’ve already outgrown? Where am I asking for clarity when what I really need is courage?

    Where am I still playing small because it’s familiar, not because it’s true?

    This isn’t about becoming someone new.

    It’s about removing the parts of your life that are no longer aligned with who you already are.

    2026 doesn’t need another version of you that’s:

    half-committed chronically overthinking endlessly preparing emotionally available to everything except your own fire 🔥

    2026 needs the version of you that has stopped making excuses for her own hesitation.

    The version of you who understands this simple truth:

    Discipline is not punishment.

    Devotion is not restriction.

    And power does not ask for permission.

    There is a feral, holy, undomesticated intelligence inside you that already knows this.

    She is not suited to polite society.

    She does not thrive on approval.

    She does not wait to be chosen.

    She waits for you to choose her.

    So for the love of gawd… please choose you!

    So today🎄Christmas Day I’m not making resolutions.

    I’m making a decision.

    For the next seven days, I’m not numbing.

    I’m not drifting.

    I’m not pretending momentum will magically appear on January 1st.

    I’m preparing.

    I’m taking inventory.

    I’m cutting dead weight.

    I’m reclaiming energy.

    I’m telling the truth.

    If you feel that pull too. A quiet, relentless knowing that your life wants more honesty, more embodiment, more authority please pay attention.

    The next seven days are a countdown.

    Not to a new year.

    To a new standard.

    Not to a new you.

    To the you that already exists

    To the you within.

    Let’s unleash together.

    Merry Christmas form my heart to yours, Joy

  • Playful Radiance: Showing Up as You Are

    Playful Radiance: Showing Up as You Are

    This morning I woke to dappled sunlight and a voice message from a fellow healer who is walking this path with me. I could feel her processing, so instead of overthinking what I’d wear or how it would all look, I slipped on my sweater, put on one of my favorite Diva Primal tracks, stepped onto my porch (crafted with local milled cedar planks) and pressed record.

    The sun was behind me, peeking through the trees, and I thought: the time is now. Not someday when I’ve figured everything out. Not when I’ve got curtains hung in my tiny cabin or my tea is brewed. Now.

    “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” — Oscar Wilde

    Today, I let the nervous energy melt away. I just sat down on my porch and let it pour through. Sometimes all we need is a cozy sweater, a little music, and the willingness to begin.

    NOTE: I don’t think my video is working yet. This is a new process for me. I will continue working on it…

    So here’s to starting where we are, with sunlight slipping between the branches and our hair still messy from sleep. May today remind you that your joy doesn’t need staging, your radiance doesn’t need polishing. You are allowed to show up as you are, right now. And maybe later, like me, you’ll brew a cuppa tea and smile at how much lighter life feels when we stop waiting for perfect.

    “Within you is a light that never goes out. All you have to do is stop hiding it.” — Unknown

    ✨ Tarot for Today: The Sun ☀️

    This card could not have been more literal—I filmed with the sun glowing behind me, reminding us all that bliss and renewal are always within reach. The Sun is playful radiance itself. It asks us to soak in the warmth, trust the light, and remember that our own brilliance doesn’t need effort—it just is.

    May your day be truly blessed. From my heart to yours, Joy

  • Wild Woman

    Wild Woman

    If you have been following my social media accounts or reading this blog (which I launched on New Year’s Day in 2018) you have likely seen a variety of nude or partially nude photos of me.  It is not my intention to influence others through my photos or my words, I simply enjoy sharing my “Get Naked With Joy” adventures. From what I understand, different groups of people use different terms to describe naturism and related activities.

    According to Wikipedia:

    “Naturism, or nudism, is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating, and defending personal and social nudity, most but not all of which takes place on private property. The term may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family, or social nudism. Naturism may take a number of forms. It may be practiced individually, within a family, socially, or in public.”

    Some people are very particular about the term used to describe their lifestyle. There are a variety of terms used to describe personal, situational and social nudity. For me, the term does not matter. Because I love being outdoors, the word naturism resonates with me, but nudism is also a term I embrace.

    I grew up with a dad who was a social and situational nudist, so I have always felt comfortable being naked. At the same time, I have avoided sharing naked photos of myself publicly until this year. I suppose I was afraid of the reactions of friends, family and strangers.

    On a personal level, my life changed dramatically in 2017. One of the aspects of me that shifted throughout the process I went through is that I somehow evolved into a woman who refuses to allow the conservative, limiting, or shameful thoughts of others to shape my life.

    So here I am baring my soul and my body to you.

    From my heart to yours,

     

    Joy

  • Winter Rewilding With Joy

    Winter Rewilding With Joy

    For those of you who read my blog, Tantrachick, I am truly excited to share my new adventures with you! Today, my brother-in-law, drove to Mount Maxwell to take photos of my beautiful sister, Grace, with the gorgeous backdrop of Mount Maxwell.

    While they were on their adventure, I explored the wilderness of the Salt Spring Conservancy with a local photographer to have my own rewilding adventure! It has been an absolutely stunning day! I hope you have had an equally beautiful day!

    From my heart to yours,

    Joy