The Wild Haul with Elise

Elise Bowerman
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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.

  1. Sep 16

    21: Vetiver - the roots that held me when everything fell apart

    The day after I conceded to giving my husband the divorce he was asking for, I began working with Vetiver - a grass whose deep roots are used to stabilize land that is falling apart. The timing was impossible to ignore. For the past nine months, Vetiver has been my anchor through grief I could not have imagined, unexpected moments of hope, and the slow, unseen work of discovering what may still be possible. This is the story of what has held me while the life I knew was coming apart — and how scent reached me on the days when I had no energy left to work so hard at being okay. At the center of this episode is a realization that feels radical to say aloud: The destruction of my marriage could possibly be the best thing for my marriage. In this episode, you’ll hear: The serendipitous timing Vetiver entered my lifeWhat it means to be a Temple Keeper of a holy oilHow Vetiver taught me that patience is action as roots move slowly, but not vaguelyHow the Great Mother holds creation, destruction, death, and rebirth within the same sacred cycleWhy the ending of a form does not always mean the ending of loveHow scent supports me when words, analysis, and effort cannotBeing held does not mean that nothing falls apart. It means that when it does, we remain connected to something deeper than the form we are losing. Listen if you are living through a rupture, standing inside an uncertain transition, or learning to trust the roots growing where you cannot yet see them. Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  2. Sep 4

    20: The real pilgrimage begins when you come home

    In this episode I share about my priestess pilgrimage to Glastonbury, England (AKA Avalon), and the experiences that shifted something deep within me. It’s a story about remembering the soul's purpose; not a travel "must do" list. EXPLORE: Why Glastonbury has been connected to Avalon, sacred pilgrimage, Arthurian legend, and spiritual traditions for centuriesMy experience traveling with 33 women through the Rosa Mystica Scent Priestess workThe moment I realized I may not be leaving womb and birth work behind, but expanding what birth meansWhat it felt like to give and receive sacred anointing in a room filled with women tending to other womenThe unexpected healing that surfaced through my paternal/masculine lineageWhat I learned about being a mother, wife, woman, and priestess without compartmentalizing those identitiesCalling in the Noble Masculine, and why feminine reclamation cannot be the end of the conversationMy experiences at the White Spring, Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, Chalice Well, and Glastonbury TorThe unexpected man I anointed at the Tor and the email he later sent that confirmed something I had been questioning within myselfWhy spiritual experiences mean very little if we cannot bring them home into our relationships, parenting, work, bodies, and ordinary weekday morningsPilgrimage isn’t just about going somewhere sacred. It’s about remembering something while you’re there — and then having the courage to live it when you come home. RESOURCES IN EPISODE 5: What I return to, to hold my frequency Song: Savage Daughter by Ekaterina Shelehova Book: The Girl Who Baptized Herself by Meggan Watterson Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  3. Jun 17

    19: Patience is action

    This episode came from a voice note I left for a friend walking through a similar, but different, season in her marriage. And what came through was this: ⚡️ Patience is action. Not collapsed patience. Not abandoning yourself. But awake patience — the kind that watches, listens, gathers, and waits until the next right action has roots. EXPLORE: Why patience can be a deeply active choiceThe difference between collapsed patience and awake patienceHow urgency can be the nervous system asking for reliefWhy the feminine path often moves in spirals, phases, and moonlightWhy relationships are not linear agreements or business plansWhy your partner cannot be your entire emotional ecosystemHow to discern what is a phase, what is a pattern, and what is worth patiently waiting forThis is an episode for the woman in the in-between. The woman who is watching. The woman who is learning timing. The woman who wants to move from truth, not panic. The woman learning that sometimes patience is the move. RELATED EPISODES 3: Feet on the ground - that is "the work" 9: For HER - reclaim your rhythm | moon cycle mapping 17: When the 'mother wound' enters the marriage Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  4. Jun 10

    18: Closing Ceremony - closing the loop before beginning again

    I’m sharing from inside a deeply intimate season of marriage, repair, disruption, and truth-telling. After twenty years together and eighteen years married, I recently held a closing ceremony to honor, grieve, and release the first chapter of our marriage... To give it dignity and close the loop before anything new could begin. EXPLORE Why this season of marriage has felt like a spiral, not a straight lineHow social media relationship advice and even individual therapy can miss the full relational pictureWhat a closing ceremony is, why it matters, and how it helps close the loopThe difference between a ritual and a ceremonyHow I created a real-life closing ceremony What I included on the altar and why symbolism mattersInspiration from our ceremony to create your own versionWhat you may need to honor, grieve, release, or bless before beginning againThis is an episode about discernment, closure, devotion, repair, and the sacred threshold between what was and what may become. You do not have to burn it down to let it evolve. You can honor it. You can thank it. You can grieve it. You can close the loop. RELATED EPISODES 2: Backstroke season 8: Trapped in labels 17: When the 'mother wound' enters the marriage Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  5. May 6

    17: When the 'mother wound' enters the marriage

    This episode is a tender one. Walk with me in a deeply personal conversation about the wounds we may carry from our mothers — and how those wounds can quietly enter our adult relationships, especially marriage. Through the lens of my own separation, motherhood, therapy, and long arc of repair with my mother, I explore how conditional love, abandonment, rejection, and emotional neglect shaped the way I received love, tested love, pushed love away, and ached to be chosen. It's an episode about what happens when an old wound enters the room of a present relationship — and becomes mature enough to finally be named. To the woman who has done “the healing work” and is shocked to find another layer rising in love, partnership, or marriage — this episode is for you. Not healed.  Healing. RESOURCES The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health RELATED EPISODES 8: Trapped in labels 16: Mom's Health Care Compass - be the medicine woman of your family COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG Why you need to understand limbic imprinting HERstory timeline BONUS Below is an affirmation/dedication I created (which may serve as inspiration) for myself as a loving reminder of my devotion to heal these wounds with grace... and speediness 🤞😅  I release the intense feelings of rejection, abandonment, and conditional love. I see them. And I remember they are not the whole truth. They are separate from me, the person, or situation they may be rising in right now. I will pause and take time to tend to myself. To return to stability and truth. I will confide in the people I trust and care about, and let them know the wounds I'm actively healing. Co-regulation is supportive. I deserve loving support while I heal. I can hold myself with devotion as I return to what's real. Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  6. Apr 29

    16: Mom's Health Care Compass - be the medicine woman of your family

    You do not need an MD, a PhD, or a list of certifications to be the medicine woman of your family. In this episode, I share a tender personal story that shaped my belief in maternal discernment, patient advocacy, and the importance of building a clear, intentional model of care inside your home. EXPLORE why many holistic-minded women still feel disconnected from the medicine piece of holistic living the difference between emergency medicine and long-term healing how difficult it can be to step out of the allopathic cycle once you are in it why being the medicine woman is not only intuition, but also organization, structure, and responsibility how fear can disconnect a mother from her own knowing the importance of household clarity around who leads, what is used first, and how your family responds in a health event how to begin building your own internal compass with more confidence and less panic If this episode speaks to you, Mom’s Health Care Compass 📖 was made for you. It is a guide to help you ask better questions, get more organized, strengthen your discernment, and feel more supported in the care of your children and yourself. 👉  CLICK HERE to get your guide now When you purchase the Compass, you’ll also receive access to my private support space for women walking this path. Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  7. Apr 24

    15: The life waiting for you beyond the circle

    In this follow-up to episode 14: Being Seen Is Not the Same as Being Known, we will explore friendship, attachment, and discernment in healing spaces and growth containers.  Here, is reflection on receiving what is helpful, without losing sight of real life, real relationships, and real rhythms waiting for you beyond the circle. Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

  8. Apr 22

    14: Being seen is not the same as being known

    What happens when a healing space starts to feel more intimate than your real life? The potential risks of coed healing spaces (if you're heterosexual), emotional attachment, transference, and the blurred boundaries that can form when vulnerability is held without enough discernment or ethics.  I also unpack: the difference between true healing and emotional dependency, the seduction of being deeply seen, and why being witnessed in a room is not the same as being deeply known in a life.This is a conversation on facilitator integrity, relationships, self-trust, and the kind of healing that can help you return to your real life more honest, more awake, and more embodied. RELATED EPISODES FROM THE PODCAST 3: Feet on the ground - that is "the work" 8: Trapped in labels 11: The journey is not the integration NATIONWIDE RESOURCES For men: The Unbreakable Man Project For women: The Living Temple, Priestess Presence, and The Relaxed Woman System For marriages: Modern Marriage Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

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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.

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  • Creator
    Elise Bowerman
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Wild Haul with Elise
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