Wild Permission with Alexis Wild

Alexis shares a vulnerable story about an art competition, disappointment, and the importance of loving every version of ourselves — even the ones that feel lost or discouraged. A gentle reminder that all our experiences are worthy, and all our feelings belong.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Today, I have a bit of a story, a realization, and a reminder to share with you. And if you’ve been following along on my journey and you’re listening to this at the time that I post it, at the current time:I was in a really big art competition. There were a thousand submissions, and a hundred of us were accepted. And then there were four really big cash prizes, and I wanted to win one. I wanted to win one, and I did a lot of work to try to win one.And I didn’t win one. I did get in the top 10, but I didn’t win, and my inner child self had a lot of feelings about that. A lot of those feelings revolved around the perception of not being enough and the perception of always ending up back in this place of trying really hard and then not quite making the mark.It had me in a bit of a discombobulation for about a week and a half, which is a really long time for me right now, because I’m generally able to move through things within a couple of days or less.What I found myself saying during that week and a half was, “I’m not quite myself” or “I’m feeling really strange, and I’m not really sure what to do. I don’t really feel like this very often.”When I came through to the other side — and I did that by feeling my feelings, letting myself feel the disappointment of really giving something my best shot and just not quite meeting the mark — I thought, “Top 10 is amazing, but it’s not top four, right?”But I got a really cute little trophy, and I got to be a person who walked across the stage at an art competition. Those are really big things.When I came through the week and a half and settled back in, I then found myself saying, “I remembered who I am,” and “I got back to myself, and everything is great again.”What I want to remind us today — and what I want to caution us against, and remind myself as well — is that that week-and-a-half self who was a little bit confused and disoriented and disappointed and sad and struggling is equally as important and beautiful and valuable and good as the version of me leaving this podcast message to you now.In fact, during that week and a half, I spent so much time thinking about the fact that I was struggling, or I didn’t quite know how to get back on track, that I imagine it kept me off track for longer.And we can go even further and say, well, what even is “the track”? Because if I’m a human person having a human experience and I was just part of this art competition that I gave so much time and attention to and asked so many people for help and did so much promoting and so much time giving of myself, and then for it to be over — of course I’m going to have feelings, however it ended.And why does that then mean that I’m “off track” or “not quite myself”? Because in fact, I am so much myself that the self that I am at that time is discouraged and disappointed. And she’s so beautiful. That self is wonderful, and that self is having an equally important and valuable human experience as the self who goes for a hike and gets to experience the miracle of nature and trees and the dew on the grass. Those two parts are equal.If I find myself in that place of confusion or discombobulation or disappointment, and then I’m putting myself down because I’m there, or I’m saying to other people that I’m “not quite myself,” then I’m really reiterating the disconnection between that version of me and the version that I maybe prefer to embody.When I realized this, it was quite humbling, because I realized that I didn’t take the opportunity to extend as much love as I could have to myself after that competition and in the week that followed. I felt so tired and I felt so drained, and I felt like, “Here I am again, at the end of my rope, and this is how life is always going to be.”Of course, that is not true. But I didn’t take the time to just love myself in that feeling — to not make it bad, to not say anything about it, just to let it be. Let that feeling have some attention and care and love, and to feel it. To feel the shame of that type of emotion and the really deep pit in the stomach and the tightness in the chest and all the physical sensations that come along with that type of emotion.And I’m sure you’ve felt it too. Maybe you can remember how visceral it is, how much it really must be seen and felt in order to get to the other side.And it’s all okay. Every single experience that we get to have as a human is part of being human. However we believe that we came to be human here on Earth, we’re human here on Earth. There’s no way around that. You are a human person listening to me — unless you’re a weird robot training yourself on my voice — but anyway, you’re a human person listening to me. I’m a human person speaking into this device, and the speakers are going into your ears.We’re human people. So can’t we remember that? Can’t we allow the whole spectrum of feelings to be felt and to be okay? That’s what I want to remember.And then maybe next time, when I’m having a week and a half of strange feelings, I’ll be able to really allow love and care and devotion to sink into my bones. And you know what? It might not make the process any faster. Maybe I feel kind of funny for two weeks. But at least I feel kind of funny and I’m giving and receiving love. And that’s the magic.So I just want to remind you today that you can do that too — that whatever you’re feeling, maybe something that might feel sticky that you’ve been holding for a little bit — there’s nothing wrong. There’s nothing wrong at all. You’re so worthy of this human experience and of getting to have the human experience that you desire to have.It’s really deep and magical and abundant to accept all the experiences that we have.Thank you for listening. And thank you for contemplating and exploring these types of ideas with me. I hope your day is very blessed.I love you, and I’m proud of you.

In this tender episode of Wild Permission, Alexis reflects on mortality, presence, and the power of living fully in the moment. She gently challenges you to pause, reconnect, and choose what matters most—right now.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Today I feel tender, and I thought, what an interesting time to hit record. Life is so beautiful—and part of life is life ending. I’m in the middle of a lot of brushes with mortality.I don’t have a lot of direct experience with death, but I’ve held many people through these kinds of journeys—either their own or their loved ones’. Something we forget is that we are only alive right now, in this present moment. Right now, as you listen to my voice, you’re alive. And that is literally the only moment you know you have.And goddamn, do we squander that. Even now. Even now, I really love you listening to this, but is this the highest, best thing for you to do right now? Or are you putting on my voice to avoid something else? Are you listening to me while your child is asking you to play? Or while you’re doing a billion other things, multitasking out the wazoo?Right now, as my voice is going in your ears, is this the thing you most want to do?And if it’s not—and I almost hope it’s not, because there’s so much more to your life than listening to me—I might just be a stranger on the internet. I might be a person you’ve met; I have a lot of friends who listen here. But I might literally be a stranger on the internet, pulling you away from something else in your life.And if I can just give you one little nudge to go to that other thing—if there was something that popped in your head when I first said “is this the highest, best?”—whatever popped into your head, I grant you, with the magical fairy-wand glitter power of my voice through my recorder into your ears, the absolute permission to just stop listening to me and go to that thing.Because the time you have to be alive is now. You actually might not have one hour from now. But you have right now. And wow, what a beautiful, infinite gift—just right now.And maybe right now the highest, best thing for you is to go put your feet naked on the earth. Maybe it’s to call that friend you haven’t talked to in a long time. Maybe it’s to close your eyes and rest. Maybe it’s just to stop everything. Just stop everything and listen. Maybe you continue listening to me, or maybe you embrace silence for a moment.Because I don’t think there’s a single person on Earth who would agree that we are here to scroll a screen—even though I’m sure you’re listening to me through a screen of some type. But we’re human beings. We don’t live inside a box, or inside bits and chips and coding and screens and lights and “fast.”We live in those barefoot outdoor moments, in the in-betweens, in the hugs and the embraces and the eye contact. In the connection, the desire, and the loss. That is being human.And right now—this moment—is it. And it’s so special and beautiful because being human means being mortal. It means dying. It means sometimes losing over and over again. All the beauty we get to experience also includes the beauty of loss. And the searing pain of grief is oh so beautiful, because all of it is human.Maybe you’re some interesting robot trying to learn about humanity listening to me—but I highly doubt that. You’re another human person, just like me, wanting to feel connected, seen, and safe.And the way we do that—the way we feel seen and connected and whole—is to actually remember that we’re alive right now, literally right now. How can we be living into being the most alive?The most alive doesn’t mean going on the biggest explorations. It means simply looking around where you are right now and being fully here. Fully here. Fully sitting beside your child on the couch at the end of the day. Fully. Because you’re alive.Fully sitting down and resting because you’re alive. Not bringing anything else in because the world has told you you can’t stop. Being connected, being seen, and being whole is fed by noticing that right now you’re here. Alive. Breathing. Maybe feeling great, maybe feeling horrible—but you’re here. And that’s it. That’s literally it. And that’s so beautiful.I’m so glad you’re here. Thanks for spending a human moment with me.If you feel like you want to share a story back with me today, I would love to hear it. Maybe my words touched you. Maybe something came to mind. Maybe you left and then came back and listened to the rest of this. You can reach me anytime at [email protected], or you can pop onto any of my social medias.It’s always a really special honor and treat to sit and record these words for you, and I don’t take it lightly that you just spent 10 minutes with me.If I can close with just a little reminder: the way my words help you to feel is also something you can do for other people, too. I’m not a special, different type of person. I’m just like you.And I’ve learned to be here now, in all the things. I’ve built capacity to hold what those things are, for the most part. And I’m continuously shifting and moving through my CPTSD and the things that I still notice every once in a while. I live in my body. But I’m not on top of a pedestal, a higher-developed human. I’m just like you.And the gifts you see in me—I think you have them, too. And I can’t wait to see how you use them.I love you. Thank you.

Recorded by the lake with the sound of waves in the background, Alexis offers a heartfelt love note to remind you of your infinite worth and capacity for self‑acceptance. This gentle meditation invites you to let her words sink into your bones and embrace every part of yourself—especially the ones you’ve turned away from.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Alright—today's episode is going to be a little bit different. Hopefully you can hear the sound of the waves in the background. I'm at the lake, and I thought I’d take advantage of this beautiful time and space to leave you a bit of a love note—a little bit of a love note.What I want to share with you is something I really believe to be true. If you’re able, take a moment to do nothing else. Maybe just sit on the couch. For this little bit of time, I invite you to receive the words I’m going to say and, if you can, let them settle into your body—let them sink into your bones.If you can find a spot—of course, if you’re listening and doing other things, that’s okay too—but if you can find a spot just to be for this moment, that would be great. You don’t have to sit in any special position; just find a place that feels okay to be alone with me for a moment. And as I share these things with you, let them sink into your body. Really feel them, even if they feel uncomfortable or untrue. Can you be curious about letting these ideas in?Okay.Dearest, you are infinitely loved. Infinitely protected. Infinitely worthy—oh my goodness, infinitely worthy. There is no end to what you could receive, what you’re allowed to receive, and what is here for you in this moment of time.You are infinitely enough—completely and wholly. This is true. You are infinitely enough, yes, even with the sadness and the hate and the fear and the shame and the doubt you still hold. You’re infinitely enough. Infinitely worthy. Infinitely loved.And all those parts of you that you feel aren’t good enough are also infinitely loved. Are you able, in this moment, to allow yourself to receive that? That even the parts of you you turn away from are also worthy of love.Even though I don’t know you, I see that the parts of you you think aren’t good enough are worthy of my love. And what’s really magical is they’re also worthy of your love. The parts of you you feel are not good enough are worthy of your love.A simple thing you can do today to show those parts of you a bit of love is simply to look at them. Simply to look at them. To acknowledge that you have parts of yourself you might not feel are good enough.What’s interesting is that acknowledging these parts of us actually helps us feel more whole because we stop ignoring and pushing aside parts of ourselves. Sometimes we’d like to just eliminate the part of us that hates another human. But can I invite you to allow that part of you to exist? Because when you allow it to exist, it loses the control and power it was trying to get—just like a little child who doesn’t get the attention they’re looking for becomes louder. When you’re able to look at it, it doesn’t need to scream anymore.All the parts of you you don’t want to know are there—every single one—is infinitely worthy of love and care. That doesn’t mean we let them run the show, but it means we stop denying their existence. Because to feel whole, you have to embrace that we’re both light and dark, both “bad” (I’m putting that in air quotes) and good.There’s no need to judge the parts of you you don’t want to look at. They’re simply there as parts of you. And what I know about you is that you are absolutely beautiful—even those parts. Gosh, maybe especially those parts.You’re so worthy. You’re so enough. Everything that’s happened up until now has made you part of who you are. All of it is part of you.And my goodness, what an amazing adventure. How beautiful to get to experience sadness, devastating grief, overwhelming anger—because all of that means you’re alive. And how gorgeous to experience delight that makes you cry, and love, and gratitude. All of it making this human experience your experience. And what a gorgeous one it is.You are infinitely worthy. You are infinitely loved. There is no end. All the parts of you are allowed to be here too, and to receive that love and care.Thank you for taking a moment to consider embracing yourself a little bit deeper today, to listen to the waves, and to listen to my voice. I love you. You’re enough. And I’m so proud of you. Thank you.

In this episode of Wild Permission, Alexis shares her method for turning inspired ideas into reality. She explores the power of acting quickly on projects, creating “due dates” or deadlines, and nurturing your ideas like a pregnancy—so you can stay in the energy of creation and bring your visions to life.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Oh, welcome back! I just feel so grateful and honored to get to be a voice in your ear every week—or, if you're binging on me, maybe you're listening to everything all at once. Today, I wanted to pop on and share with you something that I have found to be really helpful for me.I do a lot of projects. I do a lot of things. And I tend to try to do them quickly: get the idea, implement the idea. The reason for that is because when I feel really inspired, that's when I feel the energy of this project really vibrant and alive. And I don't know about you, but when there is something vibrant and alive in me—an idea, a project—the quicker I implement it, the more I am able to sustain that excited energy.We certainly don’t have to be in a heightened energy state to make things happen. But I noticed that for me, if I'm able to stay in motion with the project, it tends to feel better as I implement it.If an idea comes to me and I think to myself, "Oh, I'll get around to that someday," or "Maybe that's a project for a few months from now," it's likely that project will never come to fruition. However, if an idea comes to me and I'm able to quickly turn it around, it feels vibrant in my body instantly. An idea comes, and you're like, "Oh my gosh, I love that so much." And we keep that energy and vibrancy alive—then other people feel that from me.The way I’m able to keep that vibrancy and energy alive is I try to create a deadline or a birth date for this idea—just like when a baby is going to be born, there’s a due date. We have a bit of an idea of when we're going to meet this person, when the baby is going to be born.When I can create that deadline, and it’s a really hard deadline—like if I can be on somebody's podcast and say, "I have this thing coming out and here's the date"—if I'm able to coordinate that with somebody else and really make it a public declaration of, "Here's when this thing is going to come to fruition," it helps me stay on track.For instance, when I was in the art comp in London at Kellogg Lane, I knew there was a deadline for when the art needed to be completed and submitted. I told people I was submitting art to this show. I told myself. I stayed in that energy of excitement so I could complete it for that deadline. I submitted it, and then I was accepted.And now there's a new deadline: the art needs to be delivered by the state. Then there’s a new deadline: voting for the contest ends September 7th. Staying in that excited energy gets me to each next point.Because I'm able to create deadlines or commitments for myself, I know I have somewhere that I'm moving toward, and I know that I can look at it and say, "Yes, I completed it. This idea was birthed out into the world." And those deadlines—especially when I’m able to share them publicly—really create for me a sense of moving toward something and actually getting there.I know for myself that I also tend to desire intensity. I desire intensity. And when I pay attention to that and remember, "Hey, you really desire intensity, and sometimes it doesn’t serve you," I’m able to make sure I don’t save the project until right before the deadline. That’s procrastinating, right?But everything we do has a reason. So if I know I crave intensity in my system, and that's something I thrived on in the past but don’t want to be like that now, then I’m able to stay in the energy of creation in a sustainable way and know that craving is there—but I don’t need to let it take over.I want to stay in the energy of the excitement of creation, the pregnancy stage, and have a deadline, the due date, and stay in that feeling of creating something, birthing something, and being excited about it. While I’m doing all that, I want to notice in myself where I’m inclined to seek intensity. Procrastinating certainly gives us intensity, right? Now we’re two days before the deadline and have to scramble, scramble, scramble.The magic of looking at your projects as a pregnancy, a gestation period, means we consider nurturing them the same way we would a pregnancy. When we’re pregnant, we are devoted to growing this new human, and so much of our life revolves around this pregnancy. So when I have a project on the go, so much of my life does revolve around the project. It’s on my mind. I’m thinking about it. I allow myself to be devoted to it because I want to stay in the energy of creation, of nurturing, and being devoted to the project, guiding it to the due date, birthing it, and introducing it to everybody around me.So: quickly act on ideas that feel good. Create a deadline for when you want them to be out in the world. Share that due date with people. Those are the things I do to help me create a lot of beautiful things. I created the Here and Now experience because I shared on Shana Hemstreet's podcast that that was going to be a freebie for listeners. I relaunched this podcast because I shared on her series that I am the host of Wild Permission. Those two deadlines helped me create things again—things that had been in dormancy.I’d like for you to consider today: is there something on your heart that you’ve been desiring to create? Is it possible to create a due date for it? Maybe “due date” feels better to you than “deadline.”If you can share your due date with me, I would absolutely love to hear it and celebrate it with you. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Maybe you simply want to get back on track with making a meal plan for your family and have it in hand by next Friday. Or maybe it’s something bigger—a gorgeous body of work you’ve been meaning to bring to life, and you want to do that by the end of the month. Whatever it is, I imagine it won’t take as much time as you think.Give it a due date. Devote yourself to nurturing this beautiful idea, whatever it is, and let me know. You can reach out to me at alexiswild.com or on Instagram at @wildpermission. I would be truly honored to cheerlead your beautiful gestation of this thing coming to life.Thank you for listening. I hope you feel blessed.All right, my loves. Now it’s up to you. Go. Be who you are—whatever that is, whoever you want to be. I’m so proud of you. Reach out anytime. I love to connect. You can find me at alexiswild.com.

In this episode of Wild Permission, Alexis invites you to pause, breathe, and imagine that everything you desire already exists in this moment. Through a gentle 10‑minute experiment, she guides you to feel the fullness of the present and explore how life shifts when nothing needs to change.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Welcome to Wild Permission. I'm your host, Alexis Wild, and I'm here to remind you that you have permission right now to be exactly who you are. Let's do this.Hello! You're getting another driving podcast, so there might be a little bit of background noise—and that's how we do it here—because when I have something beautiful to share, I want to hit record and share the beauty with you right when it's ready. And it's ready.What I feel called to share with you today is to invite you for a few minutes—you know about how long these are, let's say 10 minutes. I want to invite you for 10‑ish minutes to lean into an experiment with me. And maybe you're just going to listen to me for 10 minutes. Or maybe you're also driving. Or maybe you're doing the dishes. Or whatever you do when you pop on a podcast.I want you just to take a deep breath. Take a breath in whatever way feels so delicious. Like, wow, you are alive. Take a breath that makes you feel alive and reminds you that you are in a beautiful, powerful, holy, wonderful body. You wouldn't even get to be here listening to my voice without this body that you're in. So just take a breath. We're not getting into meditation, but just take a breath that feels good, that feels nourishing. Just take a breath.And I want you to consider with me for this time: what if where you are right now is actually the perfect spot for you? What if nothing—nothing—has to change? Right now is the perfect spot for you.Notice what that feels like. Does it feel conflicting in your system? Does it feel spacious in your system? What if nothing has to change? Nothing about your body, nothing about your work, nothing about your household. Nothing.And what if—holding that nothing has to change—what if everything that you want or desire was here in this moment right now?And I know we've all heard that everything is energy. So if everything is energy, then isn't it actually possible that everything you want is right here right now? Like, what if—just what if—it's possible that everything you want is right here right now? The thought of that makes me smile.Everything you want is right here, right now. Everything you want is right here, right now. No, don't look around and say, “Oh, but I don't have any proof.” Everything you want is right here, right now. And in fact, because it is here, is it possible to say then that you don't even need to want it? Because you already have it.Everything you have is here. Everything you have is here. We're not looking around for proof; we're just taking a moment to imagine, in our systems, in our bodies, that everything we have is here. Everything. We don't need proof. We're just taking a moment to play.And I don't know about you, but that idea makes me feel kind of tingly and kind of flowy and kind of decadent. And I have a bit of a smile on my face, and it makes me want to growl in the back of my throat. It makes me feel sexy. Everything right now is perfect. And you have everything right now.And so if you have everything and everything is just right right now in this moment, the question that I want to leave you with—the pondering—is: what if you could live the next hour with this feeling in mind?What if you could live this next hour—just an hour, we're just practicing; we don't have to go to a week or a day even—what if you could remember what it feels like right now for everything to be just right, for you to have everything? No wanting. There's no wanting anymore. You don't even need to want, because you have it.So, keeping that feeling in mind for the next hour, would you behave differently? What would be different about your day—the way that you behave, the things that you do, the people you talk to? Just what if?And that's my question for you. And it feels really decadent for me, and I hope it feels decadent for you too. And if it doesn't, then we're playing the “just right” experiment. So that's perfect too. And you can use it as a bit of a clue of maybe something that you want to investigate. Because you can.And what we're always doing is trying to remain really curious about who we are—and not just who we are right now, but who we are constantly becoming. And if everything is here right now, then that person is also here. That future you that you feel is a little bit too far away—if everything's just right and you have it, then that's here too. In an instant. In, in, in an instant.I love you. Thank you for playing a game with me today. And I hope you feel very blessed.All right, my loves. Now it's up to you. Go be who you are—whatever that is, whoever you want to be. I'm so proud of you. Reach out to me anytime. I love to connect. You can find me at AlexisWild.com.

In this episode, Alexis explores the power of choosing change before life forces it upon you. Using everyday examples like habits and choices, she offers insight on living with integrity, taking control, and making decisions that align with your highest good.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥All right, love. It's another car podcast. They gotta come out when they're ready to come out. The words gotta spill out of me, um? But I would love to know, do you like my car podcast? Do you hate my car podcasts? You know where to reach out to me: Instagram or email, right? Website?I'm at wildpermission or [email protected] for email, and really, you can reach out to me whenever you want, um. I do my best to reply to folks, and if it's not a really quick reply, I promise, I read it, and I will circle back to you because I really appreciate the time, energy, and intention that it takes to reach out, whether that's with a question, a story, or a dream. I love holding—people sharing, like, holding—that is really quite a gift. So, let me know: are our car shares a happy thing or an annoying thing?What I want to share with you today is a lesson that I think about, and it helps me to make good choices, make better choices. This concept, this way of being for myself, is this: I believe that we will always have the lessons that we need to learn in this lifetime. And if we are behaving in negative ways, if we are doing things that we know are harmful, and we don't change that habit or way of being, then eventually something will happen. And maybe it's quick and setting, or maybe it's long and drawn out, but eventually something will happen that is a consequence of that, or is something happening to finally stop us.For instance, we all know that we should not use our cell phones while driving. And we can decide to change that habit ourselves, or we can continue to do that. But one way or another, somewhere down the line in your life, something will happen that will force you to stop doing that—or will be big enough that you will finally change.So for me, let's take the cell phone example. If I am reaching into my purse while driving and wanting to go on my phone, I often do remember this concept: if I do this, now I'm further embedding this shitty habit. And if I don't change this, this change is going to be forced upon me. And that's gonna suck. It's probably really gonna suck. So I can choose to make that change myself—either way, the result is the same: I don't do the thing. But I can stop doing the thing from my own choice, from my own accord, from my own desire to be in right alignment with goodness, with integrity. Or, I can carry on with life, and the lesson will come. The lesson will come whether we want it or not, because the nature of humanity is to grow. And part of growing is to shed the things that are harming us and the things that don't work.And those include the bad habits, the thoughts that harm us, the actions that harm us, the relationships that harvest. You're not gonna get away with tricking yourself. You know when something is not good for you, and those things will naturally, at some point, shift. Because they have to. If our nature is growth, any type of pattern that keeps us stuck, stagnant, negative, or dying—it can't stick around. Something will happen at some point to get rid of it.I don't know about you, but I don't generally enjoy when crappy things happen in my life. And of course, they're gonna happen because we're human. But we can choose to change these things ourselves. Thinking about this idea, this concept, has really helped me to not reach for the phone and to really consider: do I want to have this change forced upon me? If I am going to make this choice that I know is a bad choice, eventually something's gonna happen. It's gonna force me to stop doing this. I know it's not good for me. I can stop, and that kind of adjusts my life in a way that that little tiny choice puts me on a path of higher integrity and alignment. Because if I'm saying I want to be a person who makes good choices, is inspiring, and lives a life of high integrity, then any little leak—any little leak—is pretty risky to everything else. If I go on my phone, to text, or all the stuff we do on our phones, if I go on my phone while I'm driving, I could get in an accident. I could swerve and hit something. I could kill a person. I could kill myself. I could kill my children. Like, that is a really high-risk thing to do. And any little bit of out-of-alignment actions affects the whole.Did something come to mind for you? Little, maybe big, something that you know you need to shift? Can you use this concept to help you realize how much power you actually have, and to help you realize the magnitude of change that you can control? And that's good, right? We often think of control as a really negative word, but we are the ones in charge of our lives. We do get to control those types of things—those bad behaviors, those negative parts of our lives that we know are not helping us. We get to decide to make different choices.I invite you to consider: can this be a tool that's helpful for you as well? When you get into those little sticky situations and find yourself wanting to go back to that habit, that relationship, or whatever it is that isn't in your highest best good—can you be the one responsibly in control? You don't need to let the universe have to force a lesson upon you. You've got this. I really am so proud of you, and you're making really abundantly beautiful choices. I hope this is something that you can use to continue doing so.Thank you, and I love you.

In this episode, Alexis invites you to imagine your passion as a lover—something that deserves devotion, excitement, and intentional time. She shares a story of sneaking 10 minutes with her painting and explores how even small moments of creative connection can spark aliveness. Tune in for inspiration to weave your deepest desires into everyday life with love and playfulness.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.TRANSCRIPTHello, oh, I'm so excited to share this idea and concept with you today, and it feels really juicy and Alive. And, um, decadent and abundant when I feel this in my body and? I know for you, I know for you. That there is something. That feeds your soul that you want to bring out into the world.And I don't know what it is, but I know you have a thing. Maybe it's music. Maybe it's making art like I do. Maybe it's creating something else. Maybe it's being a really great parent, um, maybe it's really putting everything into your work and whatever the thing is? I invite you today to consider what it would be like if you treated that as if it was your lover.And what type of energy? Is a lover, a lovership relationship. To me when I think of a lover, I think of creation. I think of amplifying, I think of adorning myself in beautiful ways. When I meet them, I think of being my best. I think of exploring, I think of excitement.I think of looking forward to. So, if we were to treat the things that we want to create and our passions as a lover, then would we not want to spend more time in those things? Would we not consider it more often? Would we not look for ways to honor that in our lives?Look for ways to create more energy around it. Look for ways to talk about it. Look for ways to really. Allow that feeling of Desire towards our passion to just flow into as many parts of our life as possible. I don't know about you, but when I am leaning into a new relationship or exploring further.With somebody current and like dipping my toes into more. I think about it a lot, right? We think about these energy growing relationships a lot. And so, then we think of the people when we're out and about of the store. And we see something that they might like, and we pick it up, or we make plans to spend more time with them.Maybe the time that we're spending is even like, very, very short. Maybe we pop into their work for five minutes? Though we plan our life to be able to engage. With our lover. Right, and even the word lover carries with it. And energy. A creative, expansive feeling when I think about it.And how this came to me today was I was dropping off my kids and then I was heading to meet a friend and I told them I would come right after I dropped off my kids. I said I'll be to like 9, 15, 9, 30. And then I realized this morning when I got up that I really wanted to do another layer on my painting lead follow.And. This painting's nearing the end. But every time that I add paint, I have to wait for it to dry before I can add the next layer. If you've seen my art, you know, there's a lot happening. A lot of colors, a lot of energy. And so, what I decided to do was to drop off my kids a few minutes, early three minutes early, just a few.And I had hopped back in the van and drove back home so that I could spend 10 minutes on the canvas before I left again. And I. My kid's driveway at 905. I ran home. I added some white, beautiful netting type patterns to the painting, and I got back in my car.I got a 917, and I made it to see my friend before 9, 30. And I could look at this and be, like, oh my God, that was so frantic. Like, you did all this running around this morning. I spent 10 minutes with my lover this morning in my backyard.I fit my passion. I fit my love into a spot this morning that I created so I could be in that energy. With this. And as I, if I think about this creation that I am making this lead, follow painting. It really is a lovership relationship. Because I have to put intention in intentional time energy, I have to be thinking about it a lot.What does this painting want? How can I serve it? How can I create more here? And it feels really alive to consider this painting and my body of work and myself as an artist. As a relationship that is not. Not even a friendship, but is a lover? Because a lover is an energy that grows in a different type of way, right?It's kind of sexy. It's kind of. More, and I'm certainly not saying friendships are not valuable or parenting relationships are not valuable. But if we think of the word lover, there's something a little bit more electric there. Then the word mother or friend? And the type of aliveness that I desire to have with my work with my passion.Is that of lover because I want to keep the energy alive I want to stay in the flow of excitement? An aliveness. And so, as you consider the thing that I referenced at the beginning, what your passion is the thing you want to create, just want to invite you to lean into?What would it feel like to treat that as a lover? Would you maybe want to sneak more minutes in with that? You wouldn't even believe how much I did in 10 minutes, and it felt so good. You definitely have 10 minutes. You have 10 minutes to write a bit more of your story.You have 10 minutes to sit down and make some music. And it can fit in between the other parts of your life. You don't have to pretend it's a sneaky Affair. It can be a lover that you shout your love from the rooftops. It can be the best love affair that you have ever had, but not in secret.Because if something lights you up this much, you can't even keep it a secret anyways. That's why I had to pop on this morning and talk to you about this. Because I couldn't keep this alive energy a secret. Because I know that you can feel this too. And maybe you decide not to use the word lover, then maybe there's something else that can really?Give you the feeling of. Devotion and excitement and aliveness for the things that you're meant to create. Because whatever they are. I want to see them in the world. And I want you to be them in the world. Because the things that you're meant to create are there for you.And if you don't make them, we don't get to experience them. But I really want to experience your work in the world, whatever it is. Please, please, if you feel John. Shoot me a quick message on one of my platforms, wild permission, or Alexis Christine Wilde, and let me know what that little passion is.Give your love a name so I can celebrate it too. Thank you so much for popping on and listening to me today. I hope that you're able to feel alive and connected. I love you. And you're so worthy.

After nearly three years away, I’m back to the mic with a rebirth and recommitment to claiming the title of Artist in my life. I share honestly about falling off track, the difficult seasons that came with it, and the powerful devotion that brought me home again. This episode is an invitation to witness my journey — and to feel inspired to return to your own deepest path, no matter how far you’ve strayed.Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.TRANSCRIPTAll right. Welcome back! Maybe welcome for the first time. If you have seen or heard episodes before this one, you'll maybe have noticed that many of them were from several years ago and. I'm back and it feels good. And. To claim. A title in our lives is so. Powerful and the title I claim is artist, and that includes speaking to you here, and it definitely includes making the gorgeous devotional work I create and includes inviting you to witness me in the.Opening and doing the receiving and in? One thing at a time. One thing at a time steps. And it includes being imperfect. It includes leaving that mistake in this recording that I just made and. It also includes looking at. Where I have gone off track and the last episode before.This one was in 2022. Almost three years ago from now. And. Yesterday, I was collating. For an artist's resume, all of the exhibits I've been part of, and all the different projects. And there is a many, many year Gap. From about 2019. To 2023. And. What I think about that?It feels like man, why, why, why? And I can feel. A bit of Shame. A bit of guilt. And my body feels a little heavy in my shoulder, as it feels like. Some grief, some sadness for? That many years of? Not being in Devotion to? Artist to being creative to being.Witnessed by you in this. Not everybody wants to be. As public as I. But for me to have gone so many years. Without this type of sharing. I feel. Intrigued and curious and really alive. To notice where I got off track and to? Put those 21 podcast episodes back up.Finally, build an online shop where people can pay me for things I make. And to hit record again and to be. A human person in life, striving for things because I know with absolute certainty that they're mine. And. What's cool about being on a track? Is the track will stay there for us?The track will stay there. And so, if we run off of track? Maybe we were distracted by something else that seems beautiful? Maybe we have to do some caretaking? Whatever gets us off the track. This track will always be there. My desire to deeply sink into? The role of artists as title in my life has always been there.If you would have asked me seven years ago, what do you want to master in your life? I would have said being an artist. And. I can look back. And look at all the different things that pulled me off the track. Gosh, so many things. So many things. Starting different companies.Writing different events that had nothing to do with my mission. And. When I look at those many years of of being off track? I can see that. There was still a bit of a weaving in there. A bit of a whispering of, hey, this thing, still important. But other things became so much bigger.It was really, really. Interesting is when I look at that Gap. That Gap directly correlates to the most difficult times of my life. Times when I was calling suicide helplines times when I? Couldn't parent. Well, times when I was so disconnected times where I was losing friends. Times where?I didn't even want to be here. And it's interesting to look at that. And to just wonder just to just to ponder. If I wouldn't have gone off the track? Would that have happened? Or is it because I was off the track? And allows all of those things to happen.That are able to feel so much strength in my conviction to stay devoted now. Because I've gotten to experience how painful it is to be off the track. The. Might not be easy. It might be incredibly challenging. The, when it's the race that we are meant to run when it is our deep passion when it is our purpose.The track will always feel better. They're running through some random field. Always. And. As I share with you more of my. Heart and my lessons and my offerings again and. Lean into vulnerability and lean into asking and leaning to showing. I'm excited to. Hit record again and be in your ear every week and listen to your stories back.It was. Such a gift and such a surprise. In my first round of this podcast that people anticipated this every week. And. I think. The magic. A human voice. Is that we are able to connect story to story? I can share with you. Hey, this was painful. And now, it's not.This was a challenge, and I got through it. And then, I think. When you hit those challenges too. It doesn't feel so alone. And then you get to have your own experience of. Oh, this was painful, and now it's not. And that's really magical. And so thank you for listening to this.Rebirth relaunch. This commitment to utter devotion. To Artistry and? The claiming of the title of artist in my life includes. This filed permission. This podcast this. Opening. And it includes. Being in my permission. So, you feel more inspired bit by bit to stay in yours. And that's what it's about.Wild permission. And we've always had it, but I feel really honored to get to remind you. It's good to remind you that you've always had it. To thank you. Even in the times when we're off track. We can get back, and thanks for being here. I hope you feel blessed.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥I want to ask you a question today give you something to ponder as you go through your day today as you interact with other people as you have feelings and experiences and memories and everything that comes with being human. And the question I want you to consider as you go through life is is this really true? Is this really true? Is this person doing this to me on purpose to hurt me? Is this true? Did this driver cut me off in traffic? Because he's rude and ignorant? Is this true? Or maybe he didn't see me? Is this true? We get so caught up in our perception of things. So caught up in it, and so tied to it and hold so tightly to it to the point of sometimes letting it ruin our lives…... . Then certainly it can start small with resentment with miscommunication. And really, that's all it is. When things happen in our lives that don't feel correct in our opinion. We can very quickly go down a rabbit hole of this person is doing this to me and this is what it means. It means they're rude. It means they don't like me. It means they want to hurt me. It means they don't care. About me. It means this is so unfair. But is that really true? Could it be perhaps that this other person who you're interacting with is super tired? Maybe they're struggling? Maybe they are dealing with mental health issues right now? And they're having a hard time and maybe they didn't realize that you're also kind of tired. So what they said on a normal day might just be something easy for you to fluff off.That maybe today It really hurts. But here's the question again. Is it true? Is it true that they're evil and they're out to get you?Is it true? Is it true the perception that you have of this experience? Because if it's not true, then Gosh, you're certainly wasting a lot of time on this and you're letting it mean things that it probably doesn't mean in our relationships, in our relationships with our partners with our kids with ourselves, there are infinite opportunities to misunderstand and so often, we hold on to these really hurtful and really harmful viewpoints of what has actually happened.I'm not saying that what has happened to you is not the experience that you are actually having I'm not saying that this is not how you're feeling and how you've perceived it. But I want to ask you, is this a perception that is serving you if your perception of your partner waking up grumpy is that they hate you. They don't want to be with you. They're so grouchy all the time, and this is horrible. But they're just tired and they're a little grumpy today. If your perception of that tired and grumpy is now going to ruin your entire day. Is that a viewpoint that you want to hold? One it's not even a viewpoint. That's true. And you know that they're just having a hard time for a moment that it's not about you and you don't need to take it personally. So is it true? And if I believe that this is true, whether it is or not, maybe it is maybe it's not. But I mean, honestly it's probably not and you know that and I know that but let's just say on the slim chance that it is true. We can still decide to not allow that viewpoint, whether it's true or not to impact us in such a way. And this sounds like letting people off with bad behavior. And it sounds like just fluffing things off and ignoring things. And certainly, I'm sure it can be. But I just want to just lean into the idea of being in control only of our own selves and our own space and our own feelings and our own perceptions of the world.Because our perception of the world is what creates our world. So when your partner wakes up grumpy and they're kind of rude, you can take that to mean that your life is horrible. Or you can walk away and make it me nothing. And it's not true. And now your perception of the world is still one in which you are sovereign and you're a hole and you are enough and you're just moving through the world without all that extra baggage that you could have picked up in that moment. Because it's not true. Your partner doesn't want to ruin your life. They've just not had a good sleep. They want to care for you. They love you. And you can decide what perception you want to take. Then you can carry that with you. And when it comes to times that you might need to set a boundary. You can set a boundary and still allow for the truth that you want in your life. To be the truth that guides you. So you can set that boundary of hey, when you're feeling a little grumpy in the morning, I'm going to need some space and here's what I'm going to do for myself in those moments. That I'm going to choose that the reality that I want to live is one in which it feels good in the morning, to be up and to be alive. And we can choose and we can choose what is true for us in every moment. And something really interesting happens when we make that choice. When we make the choice to not read into anything we allow what we really want to actually happen. Because if I read into my partner's grouchiness, as this is the worst thing ever, he hates me, he doesn't want to be here, etc, etc. Well, then he gets that vibe off of me. And now he becomes even more grouchyinstead of me, giving him what I want, which is ease and joy and magic in my mornings. Because what we create for ourselves, comes back to us. And I know that you've had opportunities to see this in your own life as well of what you put out, comes back to you. And when we come from a place of knowing who we are, loving who we are, and choosing ourselves, instead of all these weird perceptions that we take on choosing ourselves it means that all that other stuff. One doesn't become so potent and two doesn't faze us, and three, doesn't mean anything. We remember that it doesn't mean anything. So what they're a little grumpy. You're not carry on. Is it true?All of these perceptions and ideas and feelings that you have about other people and about life and about unfairness. Are they even true? And are they serving your highest best, best best best self? Because I know some of my perceptions certainly are not and then realizing that that's the first step to choosing the other side. Realizing that what you're holding on to what you're believing right now to be true is harming you. Well, that's the first step to changing it. And I know you can do that. So let's do it. I treasure you and I think that you're really a person who is so valuable, and so enough and so worthy. And you're so worthy of creating the LIFE and the TRUTH that works for you. Is it true? Carry on have your most beautiful Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. You've got this and I believe in you.About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Oh my goodness, I always feel excited when I get to hit record again and think about another week passing - both the speed at which that happens and everything that happens in a week. You know… the great things. The disappointing things. Just the amount of life that happens in seven small days! Today I'm popping on and want to talk about setting huge goals.... And there's certainly nothing wrong with setting huge goals, but I want to just throw out some ideas. And these are things that I've been playing around with this year, because at the beginning of the year, I set big goals and I said all of these different things that you have had sitting on the back burner for years and years are all these little ideas. This is the year you're going to try them. And if they don't work, they don't work but at least you're gonna throw them out there and see what sticks. And that's a pretty big goal. I wanted to launch some physical products, some greeting cards and stickers, which are out there right now but to be honest, it's true. I have not really told you about them. I wanted to paint a mural this year and we're we're middle of the year.So this is kind of where you start thinking about Hey, am I on track. So wanted to paint a mural wanted to launch some physical products wanted to really be making some waves in birth work and wanted to really be be putting my effort behind these ideas rather than than just having them float around in my head. And I love systems and I love planning and I love ideas and I love the excitement of new things. So sometimes I can very easily get caught up in making the big goals. Are you like that to raise your hand Are you like me?So we we make these big plans and sometimes we just start going and doing all the things and where this catches us up. Is we forget that magic is not in the doing. It's in the being. It's in the being of being being exactly the embodiment of somebody who does have a product line being the embodiment of somebody who paints murals, being the embodiment of somebody who owns a super successful birth work business. And when we forget that, that is the crux of everything.Then we can really get stuck in spinning our tires and trying the next thing and ooh, this one isn't quite working and trying the next instead of realizing that if we were to fully sink in to being that then we would be astounded how quickly it happens. And yes, we are the ones who still have to say yes to the opportunities and no to the ones that aren't for us. But when we've decided and then when we feel the feelings that we would feel if we were those things, if we painted the murals and whatever your things, are you you're the only one who knows what those are. If we already were to feel those, and if we were to make that the focus. And by no means am I saying alright, you want to embody the feelings of a millionaire go spend a million dollars that you don't have.I'm saying why would that feel like would you be a person then if you are a millionaire who did the things you said you were going to do who was meticulous in your words and actions who focused on things that really matter? Who didn't spend hours scrolling on social media and not connecting? Would you be a person who would care about your health? Would you be a person who would strive to connect with other people and to build relationships? You would write if you were a millionaire? All of those things would be true. So make them true right now. And watch what happens to the things that you want. It's like they they know they're welcome and they want to just zoom over to you. And when you stop getting caught up in the bits and pieces of how to force it to happen.It allows it to happen. Imagine that you were at the beach and you saw the waves coming and the waves are coming in. It's so beautiful. And then you put a wall in front of those waves. Well, you've just stopped the waves. You've just stopped the natural flow of that energy that was coming in. The natural flow of energy that wants to come to you is what you want, what you want once you and it's not in the newsletters that need to be sent. It's not in the to do list that are a mile long that make you feel so important. It's in the feeling the way you want to feel and picking just the next thing that's going to continue to cultivate that in yourself. And that's where the magic is. It's not an a billion things on your to do list and tasks upon tasks upon tasks. Because when you start to feel those ways, the ways of what you want, you will see that everything else will fall to the side and the truest rightist quickest actions will float to the top and will become so apparent and those will be the things that you go and do with joy. They may not be easy things but there'll be the just write things and they'll feel really good. You've got this. All the things that you want are possible. I truly truly know it and I can't wait to see what you do. Go go go. You can start today.About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Just wanted to pop on quickly today to share some little nuggets of wisdom that a friend of mine reminded me of this week. I am going through some stuff and feelings of unfairness for me are really triggering. They really impact my inner child; they really make me feel insecure and shameful… unwanted, unwelcome… the works! And when I allow that perspective of something being unfair to wiggle its way into my psyche, it changes everything...… It changes everything about the way that it interacts with the world, the way that I interact with myself, the way that I interact with my family and when I look at the situation as unfair, I begin creating more chaos, as if to prove that it's unfair, as if to grapple at any straws. That I can claim for my out. And when I decide and it is a decision right every every viewpoint that we take on is a decision. We can say that we feel this way because somebody did this or because we're suddenly in this strange situation.But regardless of what someone does or says or what's happening around us, we do choose the way that we look at the situation. And so when I look at what is whatever it is that's happening around me as unfair, I am looking for evidence almost every single second to prove that perspective. And if it were the other way around, if if our perspectives were built by facts and truth, then it's highly unlikely that I would come to the conclusion of unfairness. But often our perspective is not built on facts, right. Usually our perspective is built on old circumstances that we don't even remember, perhaps that we don't even know are still inside us running the show. Or it's built on fear, insecurity built on that little inner child that is really needing to be seen and has been forgotten. And so when I have this perspective of unfairness it feeds in me a fight response because I want it to be fair, and God damn it. I'm gonna make it fair.And my friend reminded me that it's not unfair. In fact, it's not nothing like it's nothing. It's literally nothing. It's just something that happened. And something that's happening. And that's it. And I've mentioned it before in other episodes, that nothing means anything. And when we make everything mean something about us or something about the other person or something about life, gosh, it's exhausting for one thing. And for the second thing, it really is detrimental becauseit's true that it just simply means nothing. It doesn't mean that we're wrong or right or worthy or unworthy or that something is unfair. Or that something is fair. The things that are happening in our lives. are simply things that are happening. And the sooner we can just accept it. Oh, this thing happened. Cool. Here's this moment I'm in right now. Okay.The sooner we can just allow it without making it mean anything about us without taking it on as an insult or even without taking it on as like the greatest praise of life. And just letting it be the sooner we can do that. Gosh, the sooner that we are free. Can you imagine? The next time that you are in a disagreement with your partner? Can you imagine allowing that to simply mean nothing? Just simply just happen? There it is. It doesn't mean anything about you doesn't mean anything about them. And here you're just humans having this weird experience. And then in the next moment it's done.Gosh, imagine just imagine what that would do for our lives, to have that freedom to stop labeling everything to stop creating these situations where we're becoming victim to an imbalance that we created by having that weird perspective. It's not fair. It's not unfair. It just is. And in what's happening at any moment, we are enough. And we're okay. Even when we're not, it's okay to not be okay. And yes it's okay to feel that things are unfair. But don't hold on to it. Don't Don't make that label. The God that you worship at because it's a false idol. The only divinity to whose feet you should bow is the her own and everything around you simply is none of it means anything about us. Because the truth is that who we are is just right. And we are enough. Thank you so much to pop on today. I truly, truly appreciate you. And I really do believe that you're enough. And I hope today that you can believe that as well. You're very very lucky. Have the most marvelous day!About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥I am so happy again to have you here! Today I have a challenge for you, and I really hope that you'll accept it because I think in accepting this challenge you're going to find that it slowly but surely changes you. It slowly but surely creates in your life all the things that you desire. What I challenge you today with is to feel good….… and now maybe you've scoffed and you think that that is silly and simple and worthless. But I want you just to consider for a moment how your life began. When you were a baby, a toddler a child. The premise of your life was feeling good. It was learning it was exploring the world it was being part of the world. It was feeling good having your needs met. Reaching out to the people who you loved. It was really and truly when it comes down to it all about feeling good. Then as you grew up, people started to tell you what life was supposed to look like. And not many people told you that part of life is feeling good. And nobody told you that. Maybe feeling good could be a priority. And maybe feeling good. could create everything you want. Maybe nobody told you that.In fact, I would put money on that bet that nobody told you that Cuz nobody told me that. That's for damn sure. So I want to challenge you today to feel good to feel good, no matter what is happening. And as I say feel good. I don't mean when other feelings come up, just ignore them. I mean, feel those carry on. But ultimately, if you can accept this challenge as a an invitation to something higher to feeling good. I believe that when we choose to feel good, it helps us align our compass to the things that are gonna make us feel good. I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? If you desire to feel good, and you make the decision to feel good, you're going to start looking for things that make you feel like that. And you're going to start doing things that make you feel like that.You're going to start surrounding yourself with people that make you feel like that. And you're going to make yourself feel like that. You're going to start keeping the commitments that you've made to yourself because you know what matters and you don't make you feel good. You're going to start being more kind and loving to yourself, regardless of what's happening around you. You're going to start going for those things that you really want. Because it feels good. And in the feeling good, something really cool and something really magical happens. And this part is totally out of your control, and totally wonderful and beautiful. And it's this better you feel, the better life gets. It's almost like by feeling good you're magnetizing to you more of that goodness. I mean, maybe it is exactly like that. By feeling good, you're attracting people into your sphere that are a match to what you're putting out.Who can help to amplify the feelings that you already have. And there are matched to that because you're feeling it already. You're already choosing to feel good. You're already feeling good. So why wouldn't people and circumstances and things and opportunities come into your life that want to help you feel good? Right, we we want to be around people and things and opportunities that make us feel good. So think about it. If that's us feeling good people want to be around you. Win.Can we know this? We know this. The people we most want to be around are the ones who feel great. And the cool thing is that we can choose this for ourselves too. And it might sound like I'm being Cavalier and throwing things out there as if I think that this is the easiest thing ever. I know it's not I know it's not easy to choose goodness. And happiness and joy every single day. Because it's really easy to get carried away with life. Stuff happens. We lose people we lose opportunities we lose careers we lose everything sometimes. And along with choosing joy, comes feeling all the other things too. And in the feeling of them. We allow ourselves to feel even more goodness because we're not holding on to things we're not holding on to anger and sadness and frustration.We're not holding those in because we're so afraid to feel them. We're feeling them and then they can move along and we have more room to feel better and to feel good. So choosing to feel good. Doesn't mean ignoring everything else. It means thinking about what we need to clear in order to feel good. And that may mean spending a couple hours. Be angry. If that's what you need to do right now. It may mean spending a weekend on your own. It means caring for yourself enough to feel the things that need to be felt. So you can carry on to feeling good. And you're the only one who can know what is going to get you there. Everybody is different. Maybe to you. Feeling good means creating a career out of putting your hands in the dirt and growing beautiful things. Maybe for you feeling good means staying at home with your children and nurturing your family. Maybe for you feeling good means going on fantastic adventures all around the world. Or let's flip it. Maybe feeling good for you means never leaving your neighborhood but when it comes down to it, the heart of feeling good is paying attention to who you are. And following those inklings of curiosity and love and self discovery. Because every time that you follow that little bread crumb trail gosh it is taking you somewhere so magical for you won't know where until you follow step by little step by little step by little step and some of those steps towards goodness are not going to make sense and sometimes choosing to feel good means doing something that maybe is uncomfortable along the way. It means choosing peace. It means choosing the things that are going to get you where you want to go and on the way remembering that you're doing all of this for a reason. And you can feel that right now. You don't have to have the things be in the perfect relationship have the amazing gorgeous home in order to feel good. You are good. Think about it. Think about yourself as that little baby who was perfect and blameless.That's you that's you. We don't just lose that part of us as we grow up. That's there and you are made to feel good. And you can so think about it. Are you going to take my challenge? You're going to choose to feel good to look around you for things that are going to help you feel that. You're going to choose to feel the things you need to feel on the way so that you can continue to choose what you want. And are you just kind of decide that it's who you are. You're good. And you're going to feel that way. You're so enough you're so good. You're so worthy. You're so wonderful. And the path that you're on is absolutely just right. Just right timing, just right place, just right. moves just right. Everything and you're here to feel good. I love you so so much. And I'm super, super proud of you. Go on and rock this day, baby. It's yours. It's yours to feel good. You're very very loved.About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Hello, good morning, good afternoon! I am coming today and hitting record feeling curious about what I'm going to talk to you about. I don't have any plan and I'm hitting record feeling some resistance and some discomfort confirmed in speaking because here's the thing I don't have it all together and I'm always trying to be better and to learn but I am human. And I guess the topic today is being human and being flawed and sitting in the discomfort of making really big mistakes and sitting in the discomfort of all the heavy gross stomach turning feelings.I've talked a lot about feelings on here, and about really feeling them to completion and when there's these type of heavier body feelings, it's through our body, that we move them and if we don't allow that for ourselves, then it very quickly it can become something that can physically make us ill.And the reason for that is because our body is giving us such big signals in the churning of the stomach in the heaviness of the chest. Big signals that there's something here that we really need to pay attention to and if we don't pay attention to that first signal.Well, of course, the body has to get louder. And this is where sometimes we get sick where we where we may not have physically had an injury, where we have pains that are kind of unknown of of origin where we have soreness that we're not really sure where it came from. And I really believe that those type of aches and pains and discomfort are often signals that we have not been listening to something in us that needs to be looked at.And for me that discomfort istoday a feeling of fear.And as I check in a feeling of shame, and a feeling of guiltand to me, I can feel those in my chest and in my stomach, and it feels like not being able to take a deep deep breath.And I want to share with you how those feelings feel because I want you to be able to think about listening to your body when you're in this place too. And we can be doing all the work we can be choosing joy, we can be looking for love we can be embodying love, and we can still come up to shame and fear and guilt.Because we're human, and we're always going to be making mistakes.Even the most enlightened people are making mistakes and the more that we lean into this discomfort, the less likely it is that we're going to make the same mistake again.But when we don't look at it, and we don't pay attention. Well, of course it's just going to keep happening.So when we're feeling the shame and the discomfort of making a mistake of doing something wrong, whether it was deliberate or not. And I mean sometimes, let's be honest, we are deliberately bad. We deliberately do things to hurt people we deliberately lie we we make mistakes and I have and shame can be good and it can be very destructive.And when I talk about shame, the shame that I'm talking about is the internal looking at what we've done wrong and feeling discomfort that we did that. What I'm not talking about is the shame that has been put on us by society or by our families when we were growing up. And that kind of shame is the shame of being wrong in who we are. And that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the shame and guilt of the realization that we are wrong. And sometimes that shame and guilt can be really sneaky and it can come when we have been wronged and we feel embarrassed about being in this type of situation.So these feelings can show us both where we need to change personally, and also where we need to change in relationship. And so shame and guilt from an external source.Again, not what we're talking about here, right? We're talking about that internal feeling of, ooh, something's wrong here. I don't know what this is and something needs to change.And when we really sit with this feeling our body and our intuition will always steer us right.And sometimes we don't have an answer right away. Sometimes the answer comes at the most surprising of times, on a walk playing with our kids in the shower.But I want to encourage you that when these feelings are happening for you when you're deep in this type of really uncomfortable, let's call them disgusting. Feelings and not wrong, right? We're human. All the feelings are okay, but these ones feel really disgusting. For me. They're some of the worst types of feelings to have.And so if we can allow ourselves the moments to feel disgusting, and to remind ourselves that this isn't going to destroy us. These feelings are here to guide us. These feelings are here to show us that something is so out of alignment.And they're here as a compass.It really truly truly they're here as a compass.And it comes back also to everything is happening for us. So these feelings, these situations are happening for us sometimes for us to see, hey, we need to get out of here. Hey, we need to change something in this relationship in this career in this life.And often, what they're trying to show us is that we need to change something in ourselves. We need to take some more responsibility. We need to really move through life with more integrity.And you are the only one who can know for yourself when you are in these deep, dark times.Where you are being guided here. We're the only one.But there's one thing that I know for certain and it's that our true intuition our gut instincts will never ever steer us wrong.They certainly will steer us to challenging situations at times because everything in our brain will say that this is the wrong path.The we will know it is true.And I can't give you a simple answer for how you will know it's true. But you know it in your bones.You'll know that when you choose yourself and peace and growth and change.You will know the path and sometimes the path is so different than what we've been told we should do.And when that's the case, that's really scary.And we can use that fear as a guide. We can we can use that fear, to have a conversation to ask it. Hey, can you show me what's the worst here that could happen? Let's play with that. Let's investigate how deep we can go with this fear.Again another feeling right.And we can walk through life with fear beside us instead of in front of us. Instead of guiding the way we can invite it to join us on this journey, especially when we're taking a path that might not feel allowed may not feel acceptable to the world.But you know whose path it is.It's yours. It's your path.And taking that path even when scary and inviting fear to come and not making it bad.Taking that path will over and over again help you increase your confidence help you increase your feelings of self awareness of self sovereignty. Taking the path that you know your to take will always always always, in the end, be your right paths.And so I encourage you today if you're feeling in a similar place as I am of really pick just comfort and really big unknowns too.Take the time to be quiet with yourself and see what comes up.See where you feel guided best. And sometimes a question we can ask to help us with this is what path feels light? What path feels like it would bring me more peace if it were to all work out.What path do I feel I should take and what does my resistance to that should say about the path that I want to be on?Listen these things are not are not easy.And I know without a shadow of a doubt that we're always going to be okay.And by okay I don't certainly mean jumping from the rooftops for joy.I mean that you will be here.I won't be here and we'll still be navigating our way through life. No matter what happens.I must be learning most to be growing and I know that about you for sure I know that about you that you care about growing and you care about learning and you care about listening to yourself.And today is the day to do that.I really adore you and I'm so so grateful always for you to pop in. And today I really thank you to consider what the really uncomfortable really gut wrenching feelings are telling you and I'm gonna go sit with mine as well. Have the most blessed day you're so so loved.About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Hello, welcome again. It's Tuesday! Oh my gosh, another week. Look at you. Look at you in that last week. Look at the things that you moved through such grace. Look at the things that maybe didn't go quite as you hoped. Look at the times that you stumbled and fell down and got back up again. Wow! You have so much to be proud of and I'm so proud of you.I want to talk today about dancing. I am a dancer! I love dancing, nothing professional. I am not so fantastic at coordination of steps. But I love to feel what is in my body and wants to be expressed. And when I think about dancing, it feels full and overflowing and abundant in my body. And it feels like a gift to myself to move in whatever way feels good at that time. Sometimes it looks pretty weird. Who looks totally bizarre arms flailing leg shaking. And who am I kidding? Yes, also boobs flying all over the place. But those times when it feels really wild and maybe a bit ugly.I'm also allowing my body to do just what it feels like doing in that moment. With no cares in the world. And I don't know about you, but have you ever watched a child who's so into the music? And his dancing was wild abandon? Whoever watched that they could care less what anybody else thinks. They're not paying attention to how it looks, to paying attention to how it feels. And I want to invite you today when this podcast is done if you can just to pop on one song and to allow your body to move in whatever ways come up. At the beginning, perhaps you might feel stiff or you might feel uncomfortable. But maybe by the end of the song. You'll be craving more. You'll want more of this movement. More of this giving to yourself. As humans we're born in bodies for a reason. These bodies are our compass these bodies are our guides these bodies hold everything that it is that we have gone through and also everything it is that we want to be and moving in our bodies in a way that feels good and also in a way that feels just right. Maybe not so pleasurable. Maybe not so perfect, but Right. Maybe a shaking, maybe a groaning only you know in that specific moment what your body needs, and only you can give it and so in the movements that feel good and maybe odd we're allowing our body to feel emotions. Because where else do emotions come from? If not our bodies right we can think in our brains that we feel deeply in our bodies. And sometimes no amount of thinking can stop us from feeling a certain way. And so I want to share with you some different ways to shift and feel emotions through our bodies and to get out of that thinking brain because thinking and feeling are not the same. And so, where we need to feel is in fact in our bodies.And let's think about the last time you felt very angry. You probably felt like lashing out or throwing something or punching something. And you didn't have to think it through. You felt the anger and you felt the immediate need to defuse that anger. Perhaps with a blow and maybe you gave that to yourself. Maybe you allowed yourself to punch a pillow. I have a perfect feather pillow that is the perfect punching pillow. Highly recommend or maybe you stopped yourself because it wasn't the right time or wasn't the right place. Or maybe you were afraid of those big feelings.But in the stopping you have stopped that cycle of feeling in the cycle of emotion in its tracks. And there will come a time where that anger that you felt but didn't express it's gonna come knocking again and the next time it might knock a little louder because you didn't listen the first time and if you block it and push it down again. Well, next time it's gonna really have to bang on the door, isn't it? Our feelings need to be felt. And here's some ideas for anger. Perhaps you go for a drive and blare music and yell or stop in an abandoned parking lot and scream and wail and pound your hands on the driving on the steering wheel does it sound like I know this from experience? Absolutely.Because I know that my anger must come out. And if I don't allow it, sometimes it shows up at a time that is even worse. Or it shows up with my family. So when I can give myself the gift of fully expressing any emotion, anger, grief, despair, joy, happiness, satisfaction, when I can give myself the gift of expressing those. Then it means that they don't have to pop up all over the place to try to get my attention because they know they're going to be valued and they know that I'm going to pay attention to them. And the thing about this is every time that you pay attention to your emotion and allow it to be felt to its completion, and only you can know when that is then the next time it's easier to do and the next time it's easier to do and the next time it's easier to do and you'll find that instead of days spent feeling off and odd. You can now move through the uncomfortable and challenging emotions rather quickly, sometimes in minutes because you're showing up for yourself in a way that that shows all your feelings that they matter to you're showing up in a way that allows your feelings to feel honored.And gosh think about it. Think about it when you feel honored by another person. Do what you almost want to be on your best behavior 20 You almost want to show your best face, do what you want to make them believe in you and trust you and respect you almost even more so think about that for our emotions. Think about honoring and respecting your anger. And then the reciprocity of that. Your anger now wants to work with you and now wants to guide you and now wants to dance with you and now wants to work together with you so that it can be heard and you can be heard and you can carry on with your day everything that we feel matters challenging or not. And we all want to feel happy and joyful.Being human means we're not always going to feel happy and joyful because life comes with challenges. And they're happening for us and every single one can be held out and investigated and looked at and every every challenge can have its silver lining, let's be cliche and every emotion as well. And perhaps maybe you need some space from your emotions when they're big. And can you imagine holding them in front of you and looking at them from every angle and every facet. And finding something that interests you about it and simply asking your anger. What do you need from me? We forget that we can communicate and have conversations with our emotions with our inner child with our inner wisdom with our bodies. And when we ask these questions, it is surprising the answers that we will getMaybe it is dancing, maybe just punching a pillow maybe just driving in your van. Maybe it's some tre.Maybe it's going for a walk or a run. Maybe it's lifting weights. Maybe it's jumping on your kids trampoline. Feeling your emotions through your body. All always be a gift. And the more you do it, the easier it becomes. And the easier it becomes, the more impactful each feeling becomes because you know that nothing is wrong. And it allows you to be so compassionate and loving to yourself in the times that are challenging. And it allows you to open up a communication to find out what kind of dance your body wants here to see what kind of vocalization needs to come. And you in this investigatingIf you can maintain some curiosity as you begin to dance with your emotions, you will find that it's interesting, and it's intriguing and it's kind of fun to learn about the ways that you can work with yourself and you will find things that you have no idea for example, the Tre and that is engaging your muscles in such a way to trigger the muscle spasms to release emotions that are stuck in our bodies. Maybe you do tapping. There's so many different modalities that can help you to dig deeper. And also it's as simple sometimes as taking a walk taking a walk speaking to yourself with such love and kindness, asking your emotions what they want to tell you and making it fun dancing with it. I'll leave you here with again an invitation to pop out a song. Move your body in whichever way it wants to move.Maybe there isn't things stuck in there that need to be investigated or needs to be released through your body. I can't know but I know somebody who does. And I know somebody who's a pretty good expert and it's you. And you are so, so so knowledgeable in who you are. And don't ever forget that because the world has told you that you are not the expert. But you are the one living in this body. You're the one feeling these feelings, thinking these thoughts living this life. And it's yours to dance with baby you've got thisAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comEPISODE TRANSCRIPTYou are so enough right now. Can you just accept that for just a moment? Just try it on. Just try it on. If you were to believe that you are so loved and so enough, what would that feel like? Just right now, for a moment. Just try it on. You are so loved. You are so enough.And then, in this feeling of enoughness… Can you also then take it a step further and just try on for size the idea that everything is happening FOR you at all times. The challenges and the joys, the mistakes, the triumphs, the sorrow, the heartbreak, the congratulations.So in this moment of being enough, and realizing that everything happens for you, can you then go a step further. Can you see that the things that you are afraid of and the things you're worried about, In fact, are not happening in this moment. And if they were to happen, they would be happening for you. For your higher growth. For you to delve into new corners of yourself that you've never looked at before. For you to meet a new challenge that you've never been in. For you to discover and uncover and relish in something new in your life. Something wonderful, or maybe something challenging.In this moment of being totally enough and totally loved and totally worthy… in this moment where everything is happening for you and in this moment where everything that you're afraid of and everything you're worried about is not happening right now… Can you imagine then, zooming towards you right now in this moment, all the things you desire?Maybe they are feelings: feelings of peace, feelings of ease, feelings of strength, maybe a feeling of deep, deep compassion and love for yourself. Maybe it's money. Maybe it's relationships. Maybe it's work that fills you up.In realizing that the things that you are worried about and afraid of are not happening right now, can you fill that void with things that are good - with joy and gratitude and with love?Now, we might just take this on as a thought exercise just for this moment. But I ponder what would happen in your life if you went through your days, day after day, with this in mind? With realizing that the things you're afraid of are not happening right now?If you begin to think about and draw to you the things that you do want, instead of using any of your so valuable thoughts on the things that you don't? Then should a thing happen that you don't desire in your life…Could you perhaps invite the idea in that this is happening for you? This certainly doesn't mean to not feel and it certainly doesn't mean to not be hurt if it's hurtful or to not cry, or to not be angry, or to not be sad (very emotion has its place!).Feeling the uncomfortable things is part of being human. The sooner we feel them, the sooner they pass and the sooner we can move into more of what we truly desire.Now, we all have choices all day long, every single day —> What we want to do with our thoughts and our time.What we do with our thoughts and our time, very, very much impacts how we feel.Maybe you're not being conscious of how you're thinking every day, but you do realize that you have been feeling so great. Perhaps this is a nudge to pay attention to where your thoughts are taking you. I know for myself that the times when I dwell on my fear and my worry, it's very easy to go down that spiral, and it's very easy for me to find people who will go there with me! “Misery loves company.” Isn't that what they say?I also know that when I'm following that train of thought instead of allowing the emotions to be felt feeling them and carrying on when I create more of those thoughts.It's a distraction from what I desire, and it brings in more of what I don't because I'm looking for it. we've ever heard about the concept of when you are thinking about buying a red Toyota, now you see many red Toyota is driving all around us because what we think about, we notice and we attempt to create unconsciously in our lives. So there were not more red Toyotas all the sudden because you decided you were going to buy one. There are more red, Toyota's all the sudden because you were paying attention to them. They were catching you with a corner of your eye where before they wouldn't have we can do this with anything. Anything. We can do this with feeling strong in our bodies. We can look for times and things and places where we feel strong and we can create more of those. We can look for times and things and places that help us to feel safe and we can create more of that. And it all starts from inside. And the funny thing is, it sounds so simple. Doesn't it? It's all up to ask. But the reality is we live in a world that has taught us that other people make us angry. Other people make us sad.We're taught to give that power away for a very young age. And so then when we come to a time in our lives where we want to be more in tune or conscious more accepting and loving to ourselves, it feels so foreign because we've never been taught that we are the magic. We are the key to everything that we want. And the more that we seek it out and the more that we love ourselves, the easier it comes because if you were the most loving, the most compassionate to yourself. Would you choose to stay in the fear and worry? No. You would choose to give yourself a soft warm hug tell yourself that you are loved to be with yourself in the sadness. And then you would say Come on. Let's go. Let's go choose what we want. And let's have fun. Can you love yourself enough to allow yourself to choose the things that you want? Gosh, it's such a juicy, wonderful overflowing life when we do this I have come from my lowest of lows and spiraling downward and wondering why is this happening? Why can't I get through this? What is wrong with me to now here realizing that my life is everything I want it to be because I choose.I choose to show up and choose to love myself. I choose to see the things that are good. I choose to follow peace. I choose to embrace joy and dancing and movement. And in all of that I know that I am enough and I am loved. And I know that everything is happening for me, not to me. And I know that the things that I'm afraid of the things I may worry about deep down inside are not happening right now. And in refusing to give those things any power or any place at the table, I love room for everything that I truly want to come to me. Then you can do this. You are so worthy and so loved. And your table is big enough for everything that you want. Especially when fear and worry are kicked out of the dining room. There's room for joy and abundance and ease. There's room for play. There's room for magic and you have permission to choose all of thatYou're so worthy. Here so so so so sol, so loved. Thank you for popping in today. I really truly wish you the most blessed a blessed day. You’re enough!(Transcribed by https://otter.ai)About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comEPISODE TRANSCRIPTI'm here today to tell you that I have an addiction....And I ponder and wonder if perhaps we share this.I'm addicted to suffering. I'm addicted to being the victim. I'm addicted to being a martyr.Maybe you've cringed as I said that or maybe you recognize in yourself this struggle as well?Because… yes, a victim is persecuted.But gosh, does a victim ever hold a lot of power!In my addiction and my hold to martyrdom, it means I don't have to succeed. I don't have to thrive. I don't have to go for the things that I want. Because I can't! I just simply can't!Is it true that a victim is powerful? Yes! Holding on to victimhood means that I can blame everybody else for my lack of everything. And in being addicted to lack I can make excuses for why I haven't done the things that I've said I want to do → All those big, big, big huge dreams.I don't need to go get them because it's too hard.There's too much for me to go against.There's too many people telling me I can't do it. …And so it's easier and more scintillating, more attractive, for me to simply roll over and claim that my life is too hard to succeed. It's too hard for me to thrive when all these things have happened to me all my life. Did you feel that in yourself as well? The allure of martyrdom is such that it allows us to put the opinions and viewpoints and feelings of others above our own… and then when we feel like we've squeezed ourselves so tightly into the little box that they made for us, well then gosh, we can be so proud. ♦ Because we are finally exactly what everybody expected us to be. ♦Only this pride is just a sham, and you know it as well as I do. My addiction to martyrdom… to being less than… to being the victim… to being the one who has been hurt… it allows me to have access to tools that simply aren't accessible if I were thriving. Let's think about it. I can go and get free counseling. I could sign up for free government assistance. I could whine and cry to ANYBODY and they will listen to the victim. Do we love to listen to people brag about the things that they've achieved? Not usually, right? It feels uncomfortable, doesn't it? This is because we're all addicted to being small! To allowing the world around us and other people and circumstances to dictate what happens in our own lives. We're addicted to smallness. We're told that life has to be a struggle. So we sign up for it.I'm here to say, F no.So, sign me up for martyrdom anonymous.I will pledge allegiance to the God of my soul.I will take 12 steps all day long every single day of my life in order to shed the martyrdom and the fear and the victimhood that has held me back.I don't need this. You don't need thisWe don't have to be addicted to suffering!Our birthright is to grow and to thrive.Look at nature. She takes over a field if she can and she never stops. She grows and grows and grows and even where humans have tried to stop her. She still pushes through because nature and our nature is to grow to be abundant, to thrive, to multiply. Nature is not a martyr and neither are we. Neither am I.Neither are you. So, today, a big fat middle finger to our addiction to suffering. We're stepping up.Martyrs anonymous - a 12 Steps allegiance to ourselves because we're here to thrive. We have full unadulterated permission to thrive!About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comAbout Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closer—because the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexis’s creativity doesn’t stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Christine Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comEPISODE TRANSCRIPTYou're loved. You're enough. You're wonderful. You're brave, you're so brave. Look at everything that you have come through in your life and where you are now. Wow. Wow. I'm really, really proud of you. (This post was released as a podcast, if you’d prefer to listen just scroll down!♥) Today I want to talk about the power of having a compassionate witness and compassionate empathetic support, in your journey, wherever you are. For many of us as we grow older, we discover parts of ourselves that can sometimes be surprising. For me in my early 30s I was leaning into learning more about and loving more of my inner child. I had never even considered my inner child in my 20s - not even on the radar!  In this getting to know my inner child, I discovered and in fact, she had been there all along. I just wasn’t paying attention.I discovered that my inner child had been really wounded and really needed a lot of love… and still does. My inner child had a lot to show me and teach me about what it had been like for her.  Maybe it sounds kind of weird, doesn't it? Getting to know your inner child? They are a part of you. And they are you. Sometimes we can really be missing so many clear signs of trouble in our current life, but our inner child can give us indications and clues to where those things began and how we can heal. Healing does not have to be this giant struggle. It can really be choices that we take in caring for ourselves that can soothe and heal us quite quickly sometimes. That being said, we're all humans, so there's always going to be another little niggle or another little corner to explore. I don't think that there is ever a person or a way to be 100% completely healed. I mean, then we would be a spirit and right now, we are we're conscious beings in human form. But because we are in human form, that means it comes with some difficult challenges.  In my early 30s learning about my inner child and my wounding and discovering how much that impacts me in the present time, I realized that I needed support. I need support, if I was going to even survive, if I was even going to choose to continue living. I will be honest, there were times that I seriously considered not continuing on. That wasn't a place I wanted to be. I have four children; I do deep down want to be here. So I realized that I needed to bring into my life, people who could support me as I unraveled. I hired a massage therapist every other week, and I went to art therapy every other week. Then every quarter, I was seeing an amazing psychic medium. I was also doing dance regularly on my own. These four things helped me to make sure that my emotions were seen. An inner child needs to be seen! Children need to be seen. It helps them to feel supported, and it helps them to feel loved. So as I was navigating helping my inner child… I needed to be seen, and I can give that to myself.  But, the power of having other people witness the journey amplifies your own ability to move through the journey with as much grace and ease as possible. You could say it kind of speeds things along. If you're struggling please know there are people you can go to for support. The massage helped me to tune in to how my body was feeling and helped me to connect to my body. The art therapy helped me to dig into what was deep inside and play. I literally was making a doll in almost every session. She would say here's the supplies, do what you want… And there was another doll and another doll and another doll. Each of the dolls that I made turned out to be another aspect of my own inner self that sometimes I wasn't seeing. Then, when all the dolls were brought together, they were able to interact with each other in play. The baby doll that I had created was able to be seen and held and know that she didn't need to carry this on her own. It was really, really powerful the impact of art therapy in my journey and I still use these tools all the time. Now the psychic medium… felt like a soul massage! A nod to being on the correct path, even though it was difficult at that time. There was a lot going on in my life at the time that inner child was knocking at the door. She was really at the forefront screaming,”Hey, I need some help; pay attention to me!” The reason that the outward circumstances impacted me so much is because they touched on some of my core woundings. One of those is my need for things to feel fair. The things that were happening in my life were incredibly unfair, and a stranger looking at them would be able to see black and white. Yeah, this is unfair. Yet there was no way for me to change any of it and it hurt. Gosh, did my inner child have a bit of a tantrum! On the other side of things, there was only one way that I was able to get out of the downward spiral that I was allowing all of these challenging situations to take me on. I had to realize that it was my choice to radically accept what was happening. Accept that things are sometimes unfair. At the same time, I had to soothe my inner child and to let her know that even if it's unfair, she is seen. She is heard. I've got her and she's safe.  Because I was working so closely with a therapist, I was able to share that with her and we were able to make sure that my inner child felt safe to play. And we did! We scribbled. We put soap and bubbles on pages. I created dolls. I cried. I moved things in my body that needed to shift.  It would have definitely been harder on my own. I could have done it, but I think it would have taken longer and it would have been more challenging.  When somebody sees you, they see things sometimes that you're missing and they see things that have been hidden for a while in yourself. Some of those things are things you maybe need to get better at. Some of those are things that you can be really proud of. Maybe you didn't even realize that you have so much power until somebody says…Go look at YOU! Look at everything you're doing. You're rising up in a challenge that is astronomically difficult. It's unfair. You want to be chosen and you're not. But look at you, you're doing it. Again, we can give all of this to ourselves, but we're humans and we grow and we heal in connection with other humans.  Deep healing almost requires being witnessed in order to amplify our feeling safe. Our ego does not want us to change because change feels scary right now. We're alive. We're doing okay. Now ego says… Hang on a freaking second. I hear you want to change this. What if we die? What if everything goes to shit? That's not going to work for me.  Now we can decide at any time what we're going to do, but when there's somebody who can see from the outside that ego is starting to run things instead of your own soul’s desires. Sometimes they can see it before we even can, and they can give us that nudge to get back on track. All of this is challenging to accept the help and support because for many of us, we were told that we need to just get on with it. We need to carry on on our own. We need to be strong. We can do it on our own.  We've lost the gift of accepting, being witnessed, being seen, and being held so gently and tenderly by another person. The gift that comes in that when we allow it is that WE are then more likely to give it to ourselves. If you don't feel worthy to give yourself that love, I really want to encourage you to connect with a coach or a therapist or a massage practitioner… somebody who you know you can trust, or somebody who you're curious about, someone who you've kind of been on the sidelines of and really enjoying the things that they're sharing –  and allow them to love you. Allow them to love you! Allow them to see you. Allow them to echo back to you the things that they see in you. Allow them to soothe you. Allow them to be there for you.  Sometimes, it's the first step to feeling safe enough yourself to love yourself. I would love to hear your journey in this. I know today I've shared a little bit of mine and I’ve shared tidbits here and tidbits there. What is your experience been with support? Have you found that it has amplified your results? Have you found that when you are supported it helps you then to support yourself even more? I would love to hear from you. Anytime you can pop me an email or shoot me a message on my website, and I will always always respond back to you. Never forget that you are enough and you're doing a really good job.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Christine Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comEPISODE TRANSCRIPTToday I want to give you permission (if you feel you need it!) to make the thing that you are curious or interested or just simply just want to make for fun. I give you permission to make it.Now, there is no rule that says you MUST make this thing. And you MUST share it with everyone. And you MUST get 10,000 likes on the internet and everybody must like your thing.There's no rule about creating.We are born to create…look at a toddler!…Collecting all sorts of bits and pieces… putting them on paper… scribbling… making messes. It's not the product that matters.It's the creating.And you know what? You can throw it away afterwards for all I care! The courage comes in the making of it, not in the results. If you love the results, that's a bonus. That's the icing on the cake.The cake is the making - the creating! The trusting in the next move of your paintbrush, or your whisk or your footsteps or your words or your pen or your keyboard. Creating requires us to be in that moment only. It is very near impossible to make something while you are also reading a book at the same time. It is very near to impossible to make something when you are thinking about a trillion other things and trying to multitask and trying to be there for everybody. What I want to give you permission to do today is to listen to yourself and to allow yourself the time to make something. Iit might be a scribble on a page. It might be a two minute quick blurb; or maybe you have time to sink in and follow this inkling for as long as it takes and wherever it takes you. Maybe you're going to start and stop and start and stop again. Maybe you're going to start and realize this is enough and it's done. Even when it's only halfway done. Maybe this creativity only wants to take you as far as perhaps drawing half of a face. But you don't quit because it's getting hard – That's just all there was.You have permission to create in your life in any way you want. Whenever you want, wherever you want however you want. You don't have to show anybody. You don't need to tell anybody. You don't have to get anything for it.  The creating –  that's it. That's the end game. You don't have to be a professional artist. You don't have to be the top of the line baker. Your cakes don't have to be on TV shows. ALLl you need to do is listen to the inkling of being curious to do this thing. When it's finished, you could leave it in a cart at the grocery store… maybe somebody would pick it up and say oh my god, I cannot believe that somebody left this this is so exciting. This is a gift! This is amazing!Or you could even throw it away. You could!You have permission to do whatever you'd like with this because the end game, the finish line has already been met. You have taken the time to make it whatever it is. And that's that. There's no attachment needed here. There's no expectation needed. You don't have to think ahead to what you're going to do with this, how much money you're going to sell it for, who you're going to give it to. Sure, all of those things have their place. But today the permission is ONLY for you to make whatever you want with the little inkling in your heart. Perhaps you're going to pick up some of your kid’s clay and make what seems to be the silliest, strangest, weirdest creature of life. But did you have fun? Did you spark joy in yourself by giving yourself permission to just follow whatever happens?I'm going to show you some of the bizarro things that I have made when I follow this inkling. I look at them after and I think that it's just so strange! It's almost ugly, but also it's beautiful, because the process of making it was so beautiful. Because the process of making it helps me to reconnect to that inner child that wants to create! We forget as humans that one of the most ingrained things in us is to MAKE. We can talk about it in terms of evolution or of reproduction. We want to make more people! Inside us is simply an urge to make, to show something, to be more than just just a human body. We want to have something in front of us that we've created, and there's nothing wrong with that. Because creation is who we are. We could go even a little bit more esoteric and say if we are divine and if we are spirit in human form, then maybe we are all gods in our own way. And what does God do? He creates, she morphs, she creates, she brings life. You have that in you and so do I. Of course we want to create, and it looks different for all of us. Maybe you sing, maybe you dance, maybe you cook, maybe you write.I know there's something that has come to mind for you. Maybe it's something you used to really love to do when you were a kid; maybe it's something you always thought you just weren't good at? Maybe it's something that somebody discouraged you from, and said, “Oh, you're tone deaf! You can't sing.”But you love it.Maybe it's simply something that you saw somebody else do when you thought oh, I can't do THAT, but you've always been curious. Whatever the thing is that you're thinking of right now..You have full, full full permission to try it! To go for it! To enjoy it!And there's no expectation of anything more.That's the end game. All you’ve got to do is create.If you would like to see some of my creations, the images and the transcript for this podcast are always online at Alexiswild.com/podcast. You could have a giggle if you'd like, or perhaps in my sharing of my creations,  you feel even more inclined to make something silly because it does feel amazing!I wish this for you. Go go go go go create! You're meant for it. You're made for it.

Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Christine Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.comEPISODE TRANSCRIPTI have a couple of questions for you… a couple ways that you can think about things when it doesn't feel like it is going exactly how you hope it would go. We're human – this is going to happen! Life is sometimes simply not going to go smoothly, easily and shit is going to happen. When that happens we really have two choices.  1). Woe is me. I'm a martyr. This is so horrible. I'm never gonna survive this. This is the end of my life. 2). All right. This is challenging. I'm up for the challenge. This is happening for me not to me. How can I make this one of the best things that has ever happened in my life? We can reframe everything this way. Maybe you are running late. Now a train is coming and you have to wait for the longest train of your life. It's the 10 minute train. You're stuck at the tracks. Well, this could be the worst thing ever. You could have an anxiety attack, and you could go into a panic … or you can take some deep breaths. You can use this as an opportunity to connect with yourself for a moment. Perhaps you turn the radio to a station you really love. And gosh, you really could even just close your eyes while you wait there for a moment for this train. You could meditate and you could be grateful and think about all the things in your life that are amazing. And when that arm reaches up again, and you're able to cross the tracks, and the lights stop blinking red, you could continue on in a better place than you were before.  That train was the best thing that's happened to yet that day. It gave you 10 extra minutes to be settled into who you are. I mean, you were already running late anyways. Do you see that we have the power in any circumstance to either sink down and carry this super heavy burden along with us all day long or look at that burden and decide that we're simply not going to pick it up? Now this doesn't mean that burdens don't come. It doesn't mean that life is beautiful all the time. People pass away. Accidents happen. Jobs are lost. But we don't have to pick those burdens up and carry them with us the rest of our lives. We can choose and in the choosing, we also do get to allow ourselves to feel all the feelings.  So when the arm has come down at the train track, and we are stopped…. Stink. Now I'm going to be more late for work. All right. Let’s have our moment of frustration, perhaps even a bit of anger. And now we are done. We're not going to pick up the burden of anger and carry it with us all day. Because we're going to choose. Sure, it sounds kind of lofty for me to say, while sitting here in my cozy office where nothing wrong is happening right now. For me to say… you can choose this, even in the worst of times. And there's proof all around you– there are families who have gone through unimaginable hardship. And on the other end, if you didn't know what they had gone through it… you would never know because they're okay. And so are you. We have this beautiful, messy human experience. And we can choose to load ourselves down with everything wrong that happens. Piling it up, piling it up, piling it up.  You're late – put a load on.The trains is here – put a load on.You got to work and you were wearing a pair of high heels and the heel broke…. (Wait a second… Now you get to go barefoot out of the office! That’s kind of fun!) OR put a load on? Then by the end of the day you have noticed it’s all so heavy that you can't take another second of it. I don't know about you but that is not a life I want to live. Yes, don't forget you're human. Sometimes we accidentally pick up the load. BUT you're allowed to change your mind at any time. You're allowed to redirect, you're allowed to change your mind. In fact, you can even do this in the middle of being angry. Perhaps you could even do this in the middle of having a fight. And here's how it would sound. “Oh, just one second. Shoot! That's not really how I want to be with you. Give me a second here to regroup. I'm going to take a breath and let's restart.” You put down the load.  You can be so proud. We've kind of been taught that we're supposed to pick this stuff up, right? We're supposed to be angry and sad, but we're also not allowed to show it.  Don't pick it up. You don't have to and you can choose to look at it as: this is happening for me. I'm going to find a lesson. I'm going to make this the absolute best thing that happens today.  It could even just be the best thing because it gave you another opportunity to listen to yourself and to choose yourself first. You've got this….beautiful, messy and all.