Wild Women Healers:
[a documentary series]
How it all started …
The year was 2016 and I had just quit a very toxic job at a popular women’s magazine to go back to freelancing. It was scary thing to do as someone with an autoimmune disorder and general anxiety but I was a freelancer for most of my career and I was getting really sick working at that corporate job. (Emotionally and literally)
Then tr*mp got elected and it just felt like, it’s now or never. It was time to start doing what I wanted to be doing.
I had been making videos for other people for a SO long, and had always wanted to work on my own project for no other reason than the love of making art and storytelling. I wanted to a make something that was just mine, and had nothing to do with money.
At the time, I was also reading “Women Who Run with the Wolves,” a book that I will dramatically say changed my life.
And so I was basically losing sleep because this wild idea was keeping me up at night, or rather Wild Woman was visiting me, urging me forward. I wanted to do something to help the world. I wanted to do my part.
And so, I started ….
And so I leapt into the unknown ...
I started with healers and teachers I knew and loved and worked with.
I started talking about it like I it was my job to do so.
I started following my intuition, little by little.
And it was so amazing, and so god damn hard, too.
I ran out of money.
I ended friendships.
I changed jobs.
I left an abusive relationship.
I healed.
I would abandon my work and return over and over again until I found the strength to keep going.
My technology failed me, but my creativity and ingenuity kept me going.
I needed to do this project.
“You gave me a gift, it was like therapy watching this video.”
— Jessyka Winston of Haus of Hoodoo (Wild Women Healer in Ep. 7)