Magical Mystical Goddess Voyage: Halfway
Hey there, awesomeness. How is your journey going? You’ve reached the halfway point. Okay, so I took some time off in posting. But it’s still halfway. I wrote most of the Magical Mystical Goddess Voyage in February 2012. Day by day I wrote about what was up for me. I am publishing the posts now in April and May. I am astounded — blown away, really — at how closely each day’s subject from over two months ago aligns with what is up for me again. Day by day. And I chose a seemingly arbitrary start date in April. Am...
read moreThe Time Breastfeeding Cover, Mommy Wars, and Mother’s Day
The Time Breastfeeding Cover, Mommy Wars, and Mother’s Day. Can the Mommy Wars please be over? And while we’re at it, how about we abolish breastfeeding-as-a-political-act. Oh, and Mother’s Day. Let’s do away with Mother’s Day. [OMG, I think I'm going to be drummed out of the Motherhood Club. Wait, I already have been.] Have you seen Time Magazine’s May 21, 2012 cover? It’s hard to miss. It’s the one showing a hot young mom with her three-year-old son, who’s standing on a chair with his...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Fifteen: Listen To Your Body
I need to back up here and give you a little background. Wild Goddess Life has been a work in progress — much like me — for months now. (Okay, years.) I connect my own journey to what appears on these pages. I endeavor to learn from my clients and from pretty much every interaction and experience I have. I make meaning of almost everything. I love how I grow and evolve and thrive on my process. Sometimes my process kicks me in the pants. Suddenly, I Got Super Tired. Not long before Wild Goddess Life launched in mid April 2012, I...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage: El Condor Pasa, A Pause To Reflect
Happy birthday to me. [Short break before we resume with Day 15 of the Magical Mystical Goddess Voyage. I promise it will resume soon. Very soon.] Every morning it’s the same thing. Soulmate wakes me, gently. Asks me if I want coffee (the answer is never no). I get out of bed and walk to the bathroom. I look at myself in the mirror. Every morning, the same. For the past four mornings, there is one difference. For the past four morning as I faced myself in the mirror, I found myself singing this song: I’d rather be a sparrow...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Fourteen: Wear Your Heart
Today Soulmate cleaned the cat dish. Well, cat fountain actually. The cat in our house gets to drink from a cat fountain. During the day when I sit on my butter yellow leather chair in the livingroom, I can hear the cat fountain bubbling. Fountains are good feng shui. Except this one is for cats. Hey, no judging! I told Soulmate at least a week ago that I would clean the cat fountain. But for various reasons that seemed good at the time — dishes in the sink preventing adequate cat fountain cleaning; Soulmate showering and would be...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Thirteen: Eat Your Passion
How Skeleton Woman Became A Goddess Once upon a time there was a girl. The girl forgot that she was a wild goddess. Because of this, she did not know how to eat. Because she did not know how to eat, she listened to different messages from many places, all telling her ways to do what she had forgotten she knew. The messages were wrong. The girl did not know this. She believed the messages she heard. The girl listened to messages telling her what to do. Some of the messages that the girl heard were directed at her. Clean your plate …...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Twelve: Show Your Stuff
The Wild Goddess is comfortable in her own skin. Literally. And she enjoys showing her skin when the showing is appreciated. Soulmate loves my body. When I’m around him, I love to switch my goddess charm to the “On” position. In return, Soulmate gives me multiple-times-daily positive feedback in the form of admiring glances, waggling eyebrows, and passionate hugs (and some other, non G-rated stuff…use your imagination). All that open and frank love for my body makes me feel more loved, more womanly, and way more...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Eleven: Find Your Voice
Today you remembered that you have forgotten your magic. How could this happen, you ask? Magic is your middle name. Well, when your Soulmate is the Wild Warrior Wizard, slayer of woo woo, you find yourself stepping away from the nag champa and the crystal bowls. Because he’s amazing and because you love him more than you have words for and because you need to embrace this part of you too, you join him over on the Dark Side and develop a slight addiction to Sci-fi. Robots and time travel and the red pill. Saving the human race. It’s...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Ten: Death and Rebirth
This post was going to be about happiness. In my mind I was cooking up a lament about Not Being Happy. Then I fell into a waking dream that had a clear message: Talyaa has to die and be reborn. OMG! Also: WTF. Talyaa has to die? So I am researching death/rebirth symbology. The mythos of death and subsequent rebirth. I so see where this is going. Talyaa has to die so Talyaa can fully live. That’s what happiness is. Fully living. Problem is, I don’t yet know how to go about dying. You do understand this is all symbolic, right? The...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Nine: FOA, aka Fear of Abandonment
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” — Orson Welles Fear of abandonment. Of being alone. Do you have this fear? If you do, you are not alone. Ha ha, did you see what I did there? I said “you are not alone.” When, of course, we all ARE alone, essentially. Ha ha. What? Not funny? Maybe not. FOA. Fear Of Abandonment. FOA reared its ugly head today. One minute Soulmate was telling me how much he loves...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Eight: Speak Your Anger
I took a leap off a cliff today. And survived to tell the tale. Okay, that’s a bald exaggeration, but whatevs. I did do something totally scary today. And it turned out in okaysville. In fact, it pretty much went to yaysville. Here’s what went down: More than almost anything, I hate to be awakened right after I’ve gone to sleep. Maybe it was years of sleep deprivation from being mama to four kids, or maybe it’s the first symptom of some dread disease that is going to eat my face, but whatever the cause I will do almost...
read moreMagical Mystical Goddess Voyage Day Seven: Sexy Sex Stuff
Okay, so I’ll be totally up front with you right now. One of my biggest reasons for embarking on MY Magical Mystical Goddess Voyage was to heal my wounds around my sexuality and to become a sex goddess. In 28 days, no less. Really. I want that. I adore my soulmate and I want to be an awesome woman who loves sex. Right now. Instantly healed. Instantly awesome. I was appalled a couple of months ago when I was listing things I love to do in order to help reframe the work I do in the world. Soulmate as helping me through the process. he...
read more Hi. I’m Talyaa.
Trailblazer.
Pioneer.
Wild Goddess.
Pioneer.
Wild Goddess.
In 2008, I did the unthinkable -- I left my children. That heartbreaking decision sparked within me a deep desire to take back my life, stop holding back, and to start living like I mean it. I sold everything I owned, moved 3000 miles away, and embarked on a deep healing journey.
Since then I faced cancer, healed my heart and body, found my soulmate, and trailblazed a worldwide conversation to remaster what it is to be a woman and a mother. I transformed my life forever.
What I know can change your life, too.