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Wild Belonging:
Women Leaving What No Longer Holds Them and Coming Home to Their Sovereignty
We are often told that women who leave will unravel, lose their way, or regret it. These stories tell the truth instead: leaving was not the breaking point; it was the beginning.
Wild Belonging is a collection of women’s stories about emancipating themselves from what no longer held them and discovering what became possible on the other side. These narratives trace the moment when obedience, performance, or survival ceased to be sustainable, and a deeper truth began to surface. The women in these pages speak honestly about the unraveling of inherited systems, roles, beliefs, and relationships, and the quiet courage it took to choose themselves even when doing so meant uncertainty, grief, or the loss of familiar belonging.
Yet this book is not centered on departure alone; it is about what comes after. It explores the slow and often nonlinear work of healing, reorientation, and reclamation. The authors share how they rebuilt trust in their own bodies and instincts, found meaning beyond fear, and learned to thrive outside the structures that once defined them. Through creativity, community, nature, spirituality, leadership, and service, they describe the emergence of a belonging rooted not in conformity, but in self-honoring and inner authority.
Wild Belonging offers hope without minimizing the cost of transition. It affirms that life can expand after leaving, that joy and vitality are not only possible but sustainable, and that women who choose themselves do not disappear into isolation. They become luminous, resourced, and deeply connected to a wider web of life. This book is an invitation to imagine what thriving might look like when belonging is reclaimed as something wild, embodied, and entirely one’s own.