Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition
Today's world urges us to look outward for life's meaning and purpose—but our inner lives are the true source of the deeper knowing that gives life meaning. In Finding the Wild Inside, Marilyn Hagar encourages readers to discover that creative place inside us that knows there is more to life than we are currently living—the less rational part of ourselves that she calls our "wild inside," a place most of us have not been taught to navigate. Using stories from her own life—from infancy through caring for her elderly parents as an adult—Hagar shows us how, through playing in the arts, contemplating our nightly dreams, fostering our intuition, and reconnecting to Mother Nature, we can discover our own authentic wild self. Opening to this part of ourselves, she teaches, isn't so much a search as it is a listening, a curiosity, a playfulness, and a learning how to think symbolically, all of which can be cultivated. Most of all, it takes a willingness to lay down our egos and open ourselves to the awe and wonder of the wild universe of which we are a part. Instructive and inspiring, Finding the Wild Inside is a blueprint to living life from the inside out—and, in doing so, walking a path of authenticity and belonging.
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Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition
Today's world urges us to look outward for life's meaning and purpose—but our inner lives are the true source of the deeper knowing that gives life meaning. In Finding the Wild Inside, Marilyn Hagar encourages readers to discover that creative place inside us that knows there is more to life than we are currently living—the less rational part of ourselves that she calls our "wild inside," a place most of us have not been taught to navigate. Using stories from her own life—from infancy through caring for her elderly parents as an adult—Hagar shows us how, through playing in the arts, contemplating our nightly dreams, fostering our intuition, and reconnecting to Mother Nature, we can discover our own authentic wild self. Opening to this part of ourselves, she teaches, isn't so much a search as it is a listening, a curiosity, a playfulness, and a learning how to think symbolically, all of which can be cultivated. Most of all, it takes a willingness to lay down our egos and open ourselves to the awe and wonder of the wild universe of which we are a part. Instructive and inspiring, Finding the Wild Inside is a blueprint to living life from the inside out—and, in doing so, walking a path of authenticity and belonging.
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Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition

Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition

by Marilyn K. Hagar
Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition

Finding the Wild Inside: Exploring Our Inner Landscape Through the Arts, Dreams, and Intuition

by Marilyn K. Hagar

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Today's world urges us to look outward for life's meaning and purpose—but our inner lives are the true source of the deeper knowing that gives life meaning. In Finding the Wild Inside, Marilyn Hagar encourages readers to discover that creative place inside us that knows there is more to life than we are currently living—the less rational part of ourselves that she calls our "wild inside," a place most of us have not been taught to navigate. Using stories from her own life—from infancy through caring for her elderly parents as an adult—Hagar shows us how, through playing in the arts, contemplating our nightly dreams, fostering our intuition, and reconnecting to Mother Nature, we can discover our own authentic wild self. Opening to this part of ourselves, she teaches, isn't so much a search as it is a listening, a curiosity, a playfulness, and a learning how to think symbolically, all of which can be cultivated. Most of all, it takes a willingness to lay down our egos and open ourselves to the awe and wonder of the wild universe of which we are a part. Instructive and inspiring, Finding the Wild Inside is a blueprint to living life from the inside out—and, in doing so, walking a path of authenticity and belonging.

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ISBN-13: 9781631526091
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 07/30/2025
Sold by: OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 27 MB
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About the Author

Marilyn Hagar, MA, REAT, is a registered expressive arts therapist who owns and operates For The Joy Of It!, a creative retreat in Mendocino, California. She has been in private practice and has led groups and workshops at her forest retreat for over forty years. She has dedicated her life to the belief that in our core we are all creative, and she believes that expressing ourselves through the arts puts us in touch with our own wild essence. Hagar has published articles about her creative life and her adventures in the great outdoors, and has exhibited her art and art quilts, which are inspired by her inner life imagery and her dream world. Visit her at www.forthejoyofit.org.

Table of Contents

Part I The First Half of Life

Introduction: Our Wild Home 3

Chapter 1 In the Beginning 6

Chapter 2 The Bear Is Coming. He's Coming for Me! 12

Chapter 3 Loving, Losing, Reclaiming the Arts 26

Chapter 4 Jesus Loves Me 31

Chapter 5 Finding My Knight in Shining Armor 44

Chapter 6 Revelations from the Fertile Darkness 57

Chapter 7 What Are Little Boys Made Of? 64

Chapter 8 Give These Clay Feet Wings to Fly 79

Chapter 9 Finding My Sacred Body 87

Chapter 10 Like a Deer Caught in Headlights 104

Chapter 11 Dark Energies Unleashed 119

Part II Entering Midlife

Chapter 12 Cast Out There 133

Chapter 13 The Bear in the Apple Tree 149

Chapter 14 The Bear in the Elwha 154

Chapter 15 The Denali Bear 169

Chapter 16 The Bear and the Yurt 175

Chapter 17 A Ritual for My Family 190

Part III Elderhood

Chapter 18 Death Rides Beside Me 197

Chapter 19 Crossing Over 225

Chapter 20 A Powerful Turning 239

Chapter 21 Watching My Mother, Seeing Myself 244

Chapter 22 Swimming with the Salmon 251

Chapter 23 Look, the Crone! 255

Chapter 24 Letting My Mother Go 260

Chapter 25 And to Dust Thou Shalt Return 268

Epilogue: Coming Full Circle 273

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