15/09/2025
Through writing my latest german book Wild&Wunderbar , two profound shifts awakened within me. First: I was reclaimed by the writer’s heart and the storyteller’s craft — by the deep narrative voice I had learned, perhaps early on, to silence. In giving space to story, metaphor and deeper memory than the everyday spaces of my brain, I began re-enlivening my capacity to see, to feel, to shape with words. And second: in remembering ritual, in weaving ancient practices back into my daily life, I activated parts of my brain that evolution and culture have long abandoned — the neural pathways for rhythm, belonging, ancestral memory. These two—story and ritual—together have changed my life fully and enormously.
What modern medicine is just beginning to understand, the wise women of old cultures have always known: that healing does not occur through control, but through connection. That a strengthened vagus nerve does not grow through performance, but through rituals, tenderness, through rediscovering a natural rhythm. And that pains lodged in tissue arise not only from trauma, but from the loss of meaning, of connection and memory.
https://parallax.substack.com/p/rewilding-the-nervous-system-through?r=4o6lsb
