The Wild Journey Home Podcast

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Puffins are funny little seabirds that look a bit like contemplative clowns — and they carry some of the most radical wisdom I know. In this episode of The Wild Journey Home, I’m reading my essay Loving Life As It Is — on innocence, saying yes, and letting your heart break open. This one is for anyone who has been bracing for the worst. For anyone who has made their life a little too small in the...

There is a beach on Oahu’s west side that few people want on a postcard. Electric Beach is rocky, and the currents are known to be tricky. It is not, by any measure, a tourist attraction. However, once you push beyond the breaking waves into the open ocean, it is magic. Warm water from a nearby power plant creates an underwater oasis: dolphins, reef sharks, schools of tropical fish. And my favorit...

The evening we arrived at KaingU Lodge in Zambia, we took a sunset boat tour of the Kafue River — and inadvertently steered directly into a pod of submerged hippos. What followed was both genuinely terrifying and, in retrospect, one of the most perfect encounters I could have had with an animal whose medicine I’ve been sitting with for years. Hippo knows something most of us resist: that limits ar...

We are always being guided. Even when we don’t know it. Even when we brush it off and keep driving through the fog. Ram medicine invites us to pay attention to the breadcrumbs — the unexpected teachers, the practices that keep calling our name, the synchronicities we almost dismiss. In this essay-turned-podcast, I share a personal story about following guidance I couldn’t name yet, and what it tau...

What do you do when the proverbial crocodile slides into the water? In this essay, I take you to the Kafue River in Zambia — and into the medicine of one of nature's most terrifying creatures. Crocodile arrives when the unthinkable has happened, when life has broken apart in ways you didn't ask for and couldn't have planned. This is a meditation on wake-up calls, limitation, mortality, and the sur...

The Wild Journey Home is becoming a podcast — stories, animal wisdom, and embodied medicine for women in the middle of change. The first episode will arrive soon, and I think it will feel like exactly what it is: a voice in your ear for the journey home. Stay tuned. Get full access to The Wild Journey Home at nonajordan.substack.com/subscribe