Wild Woman’s Guide To Mindful Living - by Dr Candice Creasman Mowrey

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Wild Woman’s Guide To Mindful Living

With Dr Candice Creasman Mowrey

Every woman was handed a narrative when she came into the world, telling her how to be. "Be thin, be pretty, be quiet, be nice, be helpful." These ways of being have kept us trapped in small worlds, unhealthy relationships, and separate from the true power of our womanhood. In this 7-day course, we'll explore the ways we have been domesticated to be in our bodies, our relationships, and our spiritual lives and honor the call to wildness we have heard whispering from within. We'll explore our relationships with our bodies and our roles as leaders and creators, unlearn problematic relationship patterns, and commune with the divine feminine. We'll talk through specific experiences that impact women directly - trauma, pregnancy, motherhood, and perimenopause - identifying ways we can be present for ourselves and each other with greater tenderness and wisdom. Through mindful inquiry, journaling prompts, and gentle reflection, you'll get in touch with your personal narrative of pain and power, and will be invited to offer those spaces compassion and healing. As a therapist for over 15 years, I've seen first hand how women from diverse backgrounds have been coerced into seeing themselves as weak, less than, or too much in the service of disempowered notions of womanhood. To be wild is to demand a say in how we are defined, to lean into the warmth of our own compassion, and to be led by our own hearts first. If you identify as a woman and feel a familiar tingle of knowing that there is more than the limited story you were handed, I hope you'll join us on this journey. Let's get wild!


Meet your Teacher

Dr. Candice Creasman is a licensed clinical mental health counselor supervisor and has been providing mindfulness-based counseling to clients with trauma, substance use concerns, and mood disorders for over 15 years. As affiliate faculty with Northwestern University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, she teaches Master's level courses on mindfulness, counseling theory, and practical clinical skills. Additionally, Dr. Creasman teaches mindfulness in individual and group settings, and offers corporate training on anti-oppression mental health awareness.

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7 Days

3.8k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Body Image

English


Lesson 1

My Body, My Home

We'll begin our journey in the first and last place we will all call home: our bodies. Being in a woman's body brings unique challenges that vary depending on factors such as race, ability, size, and sexuality, but one thing all women have in common is that we've had to field someone else's opinion about how our bodies should look. Today's talk will focus on the ways we are conditioned to associate having the "right" body with worth, identifying the social factors that impact how we experience our physical bodies. We will use reflection, journaling, and mindfulness to encounter some of the pain we have accumulated through being objectified, marginalized, or otherwise harmed on the level of the body, and dip our toes into the healing waters of self-compassion. Rather than emphasizing the importance of self-love, which many of us may find to be far too aspirational to attain, we'll start where we are by offering ourselves awareness, followed by respect, and finally, compassion as it naturally arises.

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Lesson 2

Trauma & Womanhood

Trauma is a neurological, psychologial, emotional, and social phenomenon that will sadly touch the lives of most women in one way or another. Today's work is about naming the impact trauma can have on our experience of womanhood, unpacking the ways we have been taught to minimize, ignore, or alternatively identify with our pain in problematic ways. We'll discuss the basics of how trauma functions in the body, helping us to shine the light of awareness on processes that may be underlying some of our most problematic behavior patterns. We'll explore ways to teach our bodies how to feel safe, grounded, and empowered using reflective exercises and mindfulness prompts, and how we can share the safety of our regulated nervous systems with others.

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Lesson 3

Love & Connection

Love is a basic need as critical to our survival as oxygen and water, but maintaining healthy connections can be challenging. As women, we are often conditioned to connect love with notions of self-sacrifice, leaving little room for ourselves in our relationships. Today, we'll explore boundaries, which are at the heart of any sustaining and sustainable relationship. We'll discuss the phases of boundary setting that many women experience starting with no boundaries, followed by having walls instead of boundaries, and finally finding a middle path where we can set and hold boundaries with less effort and more love.

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Lesson 4

Motherhood Reimagined

While motherhood is not required to be a whole and fulfilled woman, it's a major life experience that many women will have. Today, we'll discuss the ways society distorts the mother role to maintain inequity for women. We'll highlight the beliefs we can internalize about selflessness that can make it difficult to feel the joy of motherhood. We'll discuss how inequities in emotional labor set many women up for burnout and resentment, and identify strategies for letting go of some of the conditioned narratives that keep us stuck in cycles of overgiving. We'll also dive into how emotions of guilt and shame shape our experience of motherhood and how to nurture ourselves more effectively through the ups and downs of caring for children.

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Lesson 5

Women's Health Across The Lifespan

Sexism is a built-in part of Western medicine. Ever since Hippocrates first coined the idea of the "wandering uterus" to describe most physical concerns for women, it's been an uphill battle for women's maladies to be taken seriously. Today we'll explore issues related to puberty, perinatal concerns, and perimenopause as they impact general functioning and mental health. We'll reflect on how body changes at puberty can contribute to shame in our female bodies, and identify risk factors and warning signs of perinatal mood disorders. We'll also discuss how to effectively advocate for ourselves with our doctors if we are experiencing mood and physical changes that might be associated with perimenopause.

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Lesson 6

Leading With Heart

Leadership as we understand it in the West is built on male-centered ideas of non-emotionality and aggression as evidence of strength. Many women can't even imagine themselves in leadership roles because they feel so disconnected from expectations of an ideal leader. Today we'll explore what it means to lead with heart, to embrace traditional feminine traits of compassion, empathy, and collective well-being as key to healthy leadership. We'll reflect on experiences you've had of being led, seen, and encouraged to be your best self, considering how those experiences may be invitations to your own personal brand of leadership. We'll also discuss self-leadership, a concept that helps us integrate aspects of ourselves that we would otherwise cut off or repress.

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Lesson 7

Divinely Feminine

On our last day, we'll explore paths to experiencing the divine by embodying those aspects of womanhood that we've been taught to reject as liabilities. We'll discuss how mindfulness practice that centers intuition, creativity, and compassion can bring us into communion with the divine femine, helping us form a lasting and nourishing connection with our higher powers. You'll learn practices to enhance your intuition by connecting to the body, how to expand your awareness through creative endeavors, and how to leverage the power of compassion through Buddhist practices of loving kindness.

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Recent Reviews

Dionne

December 17, 2024

I LOVED 🥰 this course!!! It was like a breath of fresh air.

Dani

December 1, 2023

Wonderful course! Thank you 🙏

Kimberly

September 30, 2023

The ending wrapped all the learning ifether into a oneness. This I can use moving forward on my freedom path. Thank you.

Heidi

August 14, 2023

Wonderful !

Wendy

July 17, 2023

Powerful. Eye Opening. It needs to be heard. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+⭐️

Eliza

June 28, 2023

The only flaw in this course is that it didn’t go on forever! I find Dr. Candice incredibly grounded and grounding and deeply appreciate her approach to melding mindfulness, culture, and psychology. This is a great course through which to dip your toes into several different components of conditioning and healing. A beautiful primer.

delphine

June 21, 2023

Brilliant! Eye opening, sound, well articulated, this course is an indispensable one if you seek clarity and inspiration

Linda

April 13, 2023

Insightful and empowering

Jules

April 8, 2023

Excellent

Amanda

April 4, 2023

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Asher

March 26, 2023

One of the best courses. Giving words to what reps ages deeply that was previously difficult to articulate.

Janet

March 4, 2023

Sophie

February 27, 2023

Insightful and empowering 🙏

Sumer

February 25, 2023

Thank you that was Insightful brave powerful and loving.

Devina

February 9, 2023

I love your thought process of acknowledgment first.

Tanya

November 27, 2022

A wonderful start to a new mode of thinking. Thank you ✨

Jilly

September 28, 2022

Wonderful. ♥️

Catherine

August 13, 2022

Thank you for creating this thoughtful and inspiring course. The message couldn’t be more timely. 🙏🏻❤️💫

Joslyn

February 23, 2022

Really empowering.

Natalie

February 7, 2022

Thank you so much for this! So insightful💛

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