09/21/2025
Wild Sisters, Daughters, Mothers, Teachers, Healers, Makers, Fire Keepers, Water Maidens, Shooting Stars, Earth Dancers,
✨🕊🌈
I am writing to share life updates and news for future events with Women Rising Wild.
After a difficult spring and summer facing cancer screenings, biopsies, and surgeries I can report that I am cancer free and for this I am very grateful.
During these months, I did not share about this with anyone. Choosing instead to turn inwards and more intimately towards connection with nature I found a path and process to navigate, transform, endure, and be in the unfolding.
April through July I spent hours each day observing the wildflowers near my Boulder home with new curiosity and rejuvenating joy. I studied their ecologies and healing essence. I listened to their medicine, collected many, and found therapeutic abundance in their beauty, energy, and chemical properties evoked in myriad homemade tinctures.
Daily use of honey infused with lilac, wild rose, chicory, golden poppy, and Saint John’s wort kept my spirit sweetly lifted and resolved a three year long struggle with night terror induced sleep disruption.
Finally in mid July my doctor phoned to tell me that everything looks ok.
While connecting with the flowers over so many weeks I simultaneously connected deeply and shamanically with the shadows of cancer and innate healing potentials in my body to holistically elevate my well-being.
The plants, like the wolves I’ve been so blessed to know, have changed me. I am freer, dancing again with hope and optimism for my personal healing journey and for our collective quality of being and development.
Although I did decide to cancel our Labor Day retreat this year so that I could rest and center my health, we did have a lovely Summer Solstice event with Mission: Wolf and I am looking forward to some new Women Rising Wild events this fall and next summer.
Our 2026 Women and Wolves Colorado retreat dates have been posted on the website and the registration portal is open. Please note that the first five women who register will receive a BIG bonus discount. I anticipate these spaces to fill this week.
And, I’ll be hosting sister circles at my home in Boulder again on October 4 and December 6 from 3-6pm. Details are forthcoming but save the dates now.
To those who have joined us before, I miss you terribly. Please send me a text, email, phone call, or if you are in the area come by. I am eager to catch up. To those who have not yet joined us but want to learn more, reach out any time.
I hope to see you and hear from you soon.
In wild love,
Melissa Esha Lynn
xoxo 💋🐺🕊