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185 | The Wild & Waking Journey: Remembering

  • Emily Reuschel
  • 18 minutes ago
  • 6 min read

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The Remembering is the second chapter in a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework — a cyclical, soul-deep map for personal growth, identity evolution, and embodied leadership. Unlike linear self-help models or rigid step-by-step systems, the Wild & Waking journey is a living spiral. It’s a rhythm you move through again and again, learning to recognize where you are right now and honor that place as sacred. Across this series, Emily guides you through the four phases of this framework — The Unraveling, The Remembering, The Reclamation, and The Rise — offering language, reflection, and deep context for the kind of transformation that can’t be rushed or forced.


In this episode, Emily dives into The Remembering — the phase defined by the question, “Who was I before the world told me who to be?” This is the water phase of the journey: fluid, deep, intuitive, and quietly powerful. The Remembering is not about becoming someone new; it’s about coming home. Beneath the layers of obligation, conditioning, expectations, and survival strategies, there is a deeper knowing that has always been there — waiting to be heard. This phase invites you to soften, turn inward, and begin listening to the whispers that have been trying to find you all along.


Emily weaves personal stories from her own journey of remembering — rediscovering her truth beneath roles like wife, mother, coach, and achiever — alongside what she witnesses again and again in clients and community spaces. She speaks to the grief, rage, and tenderness that often arise here: the ache of realizing how long you lived disconnected from your body, your intuition, your desires, and your inner compass. From cycle awareness and nervous system regulation to intuition, identity tools, embodiment, and self-trust, this episode explores how remembering often begins in subtle ways before reshaping everything.


The Remembering is a practice of curiosity and presence. It’s learning to notice what lights you up and what drains you. It’s reclaiming your body, emotions, and intuition as sacred data instead of something to override or explain away. Emily invites you to consider how much of your life may have been curated around safety, approval, or fitting in — and how fulfillment, joy, and belonging begin to return when you give yourself permission to know, love, and trust who you actually are.


This episode offers space to slow down and reflect, with guiding questions woven throughout: What whispers keep returning when you get quiet? What does your body say yes or no to — and are you listening? What parts of yourself have you silenced to stay safe, and what would it feel like to give them voice? If you’re in a season of rediscovering your desires, reclaiming your intuition, or gently peeling back the layers of who you thought you had to be, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are — and remind you that you were never lost. You were always remembering.


Meet Emily Reuschel:

Emily Reuschel is a Soul Expansion Coach for Wild & Waking Women, guiding leaders, dreamers, and changemakers—particularly in rural communities—through the powerful journey of reclaiming their truest selves. Known for challenging the status quo, Emily empowers women to break free from inherited limitations, embody their truth, and create lasting impact in their lives and communities.


As the host of the Wild and Waking podcast and the facilitator of transformative retreats, workshops, and virtual communities, Emily curates sacred spaces for connection, healing, and expansion. She inspires women to shed societal expectations, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and transform from the inside out.


Emily’s work is anchored in her signature Wild & Waking Framework—a soul reclamation process that moves women from performative survival to embodied leadership. Her approach honors the unraveling of old narratives, the remembering of true essence, and the reclamation of personal power—all leading to a rise marked by unapologetic expression and aligned action.


Through her work, Emily guides women home to themselves, helping them live with alignment, purpose, and intention. Whether speaking on stage, leading mastermind groups, or facilitating retreats, her warmth and authenticity create a ripple effect that inspires lasting change. Emily’s mission is clear: to help guide women in reclaiming their truth, step into their power, and rise boldly as forces of lasting change.


In this episode, The Wild & Waking Journey: Remembering, I cover:

  • What it means to remember yourself after years of conditioning, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment

  • The Remembering as the water phase of the Wild & Waking journey — intuition, embodiment, emotional depth, and inner wisdom

  • How identity evolution often begins after burnout, dissatisfaction, or the sense that your life no longer fits

  • Why remembering can bring grief, anger, or rage alongside relief

  • Reclaiming intuition and body awareness as sacred data rather than something to override, fix, or explain away

  • How nervous system regulation, cycle awareness, and somatic curiosity support self-trust and emotional healing

  • The ways women are systemically disconnected from their bodies, power, and inner authority — and how remembering begins to restore that connection

  • Untangling your sense of worth and identity from productivity, roles, motherhood, leadership, and external validation

  • The subtle ways we curate our lives around safety, approval, and survival instead of truth and desire

  • Practical, grounded practices that support remembering, including journaling, walking, reflection, and intuition-led inquiry

  • Why fulfillment, joy, and embodied confidence begin to emerge when you learn to know, love, and trust yourself

  • Reflective questions to help you identify the whispers, glimmers, and inner nudges guiding your own remembering phase


This episode is part of a four-part solo series on the Wild & Waking Framework, exploring identity evolution, intuition, embodiment, self-trust, and aligned leadership for women.


If this episode resonated, take a moment to share it to your stories or send it to a friend who’s navigating their own remembering.


Be sure to follow Wild & Waking so you don’t miss the next phase of the journey — The Reclamation.


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About Wild & Waking: 

Wild & Waking is more than a podcast—it’s a sacred return to who you’ve always been.


This space is for the woman standing at the edge of everything she’s outgrown. The one who’s checked all the boxes, followed all the rules, and still feels the quiet ache for something more honest. More alive. More hers.


She’s begun the unraveling—of roles, expectations, identities that no longer fit. She’s remembering the voice beneath the noise, the rhythm beneath the hustle, the truth beneath the performance. She’s reclaiming her joy, her intuition, her fire. And she’s rising—not as a version of who she was told to be, but as the truest expression of who she already is.


Hosted by soul expansion coach Emily Reuschel, Wild & Waking is for the spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, rural changemakers, and conscious leaders dismantling old paradigms and creating new ways of living, leading, and becoming. Through raw conversations, deep reflections, and embodied wisdom, we explore what it means to awaken a life of abundance, authenticity, and purpose.


This is for the woman who holds both sacred rage and radical joy. Who moves with reverence for the seasons of her life. Who isn’t afraid to break cycles, speak truth, and dismantle what no longer serves—not to destroy, but to create. To rebuild a world rooted in the celebration of difference, the beauty of nuance, and the power of sovereign, embodied leadership.


If you’re ready to come home to yourself—fully, fiercely, and without apology—welcome.


We’ve been waiting for you.


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