The Wild Haul with Elise

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 s...

Send us Fan Mail 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 neg...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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: Bir...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a popular narrative that motherhood naturally brings women deeper into their feminine: softness, intuition, flow, devotion. And while motherhood can absolutely deepen those qualities, it also asks women to hold an extraordinary amount of masculine energy. In this episode, I name what so many mothers feel but struggle to articulate: that mothering often requires structure,...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part II of episodes 9 (for HER) and 10 (for HIM), Inner Rhythms | Moon Cycle Mapping. So you may want to listen to one of those first. Here, I will uncover the sacred season of inner winter — menstruation — and how it prepares women for the Wise Woman years. EXPLORE The natural initiations of a woman’s life — menarche, maiden, motherhood, menopause What happens hormonally...

Send us Fan Mail Psychedelic journeys are increasingly spoken about as awakening experiences — portals into truth, clarity, and purpose. And sometimes, they are. But what we rarely talk about is what happens after . EXPLORE What actually happens in the brain during altered states Why feelings of relief can sometimes be mistaken for revelation How unintegrated insight can lead to impulsive life cha...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is for HER. ✨ For the woman who senses there is more intelligence in her body than she has been taught. ✨ For the woman who was conditioned to dread her cycle. ✨ For the woman in perimenopause or menopause who was never given language for her power. In this foundational teaching, you will walk through Cycle Mapping, a physiological and emotional framework for under...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is for HIM. 🙋‍♂️ For the man who loves a woman and wants to understand her instead of taking her moods personally. 🙋‍♂️ For the father raising a daughter and wanting to guide her without shaming her body. 🙋‍♂️ For the partner who senses there is intelligence in her rhythm — but was never taught the language. This is not about walking on eggshells.  This is about bi...

Send us Fan Mail Labels help us make sense of the world, but they can quietly confine us when we forget they may be temporary. In this deeply personal episode, I share stories from my own life: childhood eczema and allergies, to healing trichotillomania, to navigating motherhood, perfectionism, career evolution, and frequency work. EXPLORE Why diagnoses are not destinies How the intensity of ident...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a 9-minute guided personal practice. A space to slow down, lay down armor, and return to your true self. Practice begins at 2:44 Be sure to listen to Episode 6: Remembering Friday the 13th prior to starting this practice for context. In this episode, I offer a simple, grounded embodied practice to embody the energy/purpose of Friday the 13th. This is not about doin...

Send us Fan Mail Friday the 13th has long been framed as unlucky, sinister, or something to avoid. But that story is relatively new. In this episode, explore what Friday the 13th once represented for thousands of years - a sacred feminine day rooted in lunar cycles, women’s bodies, and ancient goddess traditions. Before patriarchal religion and modern medicine reshaped cultural narratives, the num...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I  share the personal at-home practice I'm committed to for 2026 — not as self-improvement, but as devotion. Not to escape the world — but to stay rooted inside it. EXPLORE why gathering with women is essential for nervous system health and belonging the reclamation of Mary Magdalene as teacher, witness, and bearer of feminine wisdom how sacred oils and simpl...

Send us Fan Mail Some seasons require grit. Others require release. In this episode, I share a raw, real-time reflection on what it means to choose the path of least resistance—not as avoidance, but as a return to inner peace. When life hands you a reality you can’t control, surrender can become a form of strength: the moment you stop fighting what is, your body can finally exhale. This is an epis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Wild Haul with Elise. A slow-burn, no-tiptoe space for women who can feel there’s more going on than what they've been told. In this first episode, I (Elise Bowerman) introduce myself and open the invitation to decide if you want to trust me to walk with you. In this episode, we explore: Why I'm not here to perform wellness or make womanhood palatable What...

Send us Fan Mail This guided visualization is a daily grounding practice to support real-life embodiment. It is a return to your body, your values, and your purpose here on Earth . This practice is meant to be used regularly, as a way to remember your highest frequency while staying rooted in your actual life. In this visualization, I will guide you to: Ground your body and nervous system Reconnec...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a pause. A return to discernment in a world obsessed with healing, self-growth, and “doing the work.” Reflection is beautiful. Healing matters. And… not every healing space is actually "healing." Not every facilitator is embodied. Not every invitation is rooted in integrity. In this episode, I speak directly to a growing concern in spiritual and personal-...