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187 | The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation

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The Wild & Waking Journey: Reclamation is Part 3 of a four-part solo series exploring the Wild & Waking Framework—a cyclical, soul-deep map for identity evolution, embodied leadership, and aligned living. In this episode, Emily guides the listener into The Reclamation, the phase where everything begins to click. After Unraveling what no longer fits and Remembering your deeper truth, Reclamation is where you consciously choose to live differently, and begin embodying who you are becoming in real time.


The Reclamation is the sacred middle. It is the integration phase where clarity turns into courage and insight becomes action. Like earth, this stage is about rooting and rising. What once felt abstract now becomes tangible: boundaries spoken aloud, standards set, decisions made from self-trust rather than urgency or survival. Emily explores how this phase shows up across identity, work, relationships, spirituality, values, and leadership, and why Reclamation isn’t about throwing everything out, but intentionally choosing what truly fits and letting the rest fall away.


In this episode, Emily shares real-life examples of Reclamation in motion, from redefining success and worth, to releasing people-pleasing, to setting unapologetic standards around time, energy, and capacity. She unpacks why integration has a “lag period,” why embodiment takes practice, and how identity is one reclaimed, aligned choice at a time. This phase is not loud or flashy; it’s subtle, steady, and often uncomfortable, but it’s where self-trust is built and freedom begins to take shape from the inside out.


You’ll also hear how Reclamation invites you to expand your capacity to be seen, heard, and held, especially when your choices disrupt expectations or disappoint others. Emily reflects on the courage it takes to lead from vision rather than validation, to trust yourself before external proof appears, and to stop managing other people’s perceptions at the cost of self-abandonment. This is where identity stops being conceptual and starts becoming embodied.


To close, Emily offers grounding reflection questions to support your own Reclamation—inviting you to name the boundaries that would most protect your energy, the truths that need your voice, and the small aligned experiments that will stretch your capacity. If you’re in the phase of choosing differently, rebuilding your identity, and learning to walk as the woman you’ve remembered, this episode will meet you exactly where you are. Part 4 of the series, The Rise, continues next.


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: Reclamation, I cover:

  • What The Reclamation phase of the Wild & Waking Framework really is — the sacred middle where identity integration begins

  • How Reclamation follows Unraveling and Remembering, and why this is the phase where everything finally starts to click

  • The shift from insight to embodiment: turning clarity into courage and truth into aligned action

  • Redefining success, worth, power, and leadership on your own terms

  • Setting boundaries that protect your energy, peace, and capacity without guilt or over-explaining

  • Why Reclamation isn’t about burning everything down — but consciously choosing what fits and releasing what doesn’t

  • The role of grief, rage, and nuance in rebuilding identity after deconstruction or awakening

  • Why embodiment takes time — and how integration often has a “lag period” before it feels natural

  • How to stop seeking validation and begin leading from self-trust, even when others don’t understand

  • Expanding your capacity to be seen, heard, and held in your truth

  • Taking bold, aligned action from your new identity, not urgency or old survival patterns

  • How small, intentional choices compound into a reclaimed sense of self

  • Why Reclamation is subtle, steady, and often uncomfortable — but deeply liberating

  • The connection between identity, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and burnout

  • How community, mentorship, and shared spaces accelerate the reclamation process

  • Reflection questions to help you identify where you’re ready to choose differently and rise


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, share it with someone who’s choosing differently — or post it to your stories and tag me so I can see what landed.


And if a realization stirred as you listened, send me a DM. I’d love to hear where you’re reclaiming your life right now.


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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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