Moon & Fire is a podcast for women ready to remember their sacred cycles, reclaim their radiant fire, and unleash their intuitive magic. Join Emily Bailey, founder of Whole & Wild, as she guides you through conversations about cyclical living, ritual medicine, and the transformative power of honoring your natural rhythms. Through intimate teachings and sacred conversations with wise women, discover how living in harmony with your cycles can awaken dormant wisdom and ignite your fullest expression. This is more than a podcast - it's an invitation to remember who you truly are.
The Hidden Cost of 'I'm Fine': Why Performing Wholeness Keeps You Stuck
You smile and say "I'm fine" even when you're exhausted, foggy, and barely holding it together. You show up like everything's under control even when you feel completely untethered. This is what I call "performing wholeness," and research shows it comes with real costs: lower emotional well-being, diminished self-esteem, and reduced connection in relationships.
In this episode, I explore why we perform wholeness, what it actually costs us, and why this pattern might be keeping you stuck in transformation that could happen much faster. I share the research on emotional suppression and authenticity, and reveal what becomes possible when you stop performing and start being.
Plus, I'm sharing a special limited-time invitation to experience this work in a powerful 3-session immersion. If you're ready to stop the performance and step into your authentic becoming, this episode is for you.
24 Nov 2025
The Sacred Already Here: Bread, Wine, and the Magic of the Ordinary
Check Out & Support the Bread + Wine deck at www.wholeandwild.com/bread-and-wine-deck (www.wholeandwild.com/bread-and-wine-deck)
We've been told to "re-enchant" the world —to add magic back, create extraordinary experiences, seek the sacred elsewhere. But what if that's backwards?
In this episode, I share the story behind my new project, the bread + wine deck, and explore a truth I've carried my whole life: the world was never disenchanted. We simply stopped seeing the enchantment that was always here.
I'll share about living at the intersection of the mundane and the holy, and how this 64-card deck invites us back to recognizing grace in everyday moments. Plus, I'll offer a simple practice you can begin today to develop eyes for the sacred ordinary.
This isn't about adding more to your spiritual practice—it's about recognizing what's been here all along.
14 Nov 2025
Sacred Descent: The Power of Being With, Not In Control with Raphaëlle Normandin
Episode Show Notes Can be found at: www.wholeandwild.com/blog/2025/11/14/feeling-medicine (www.wholeandwild.com/blog/2025/11/14/feeling-medicine)
In this powerful conversation, Emily sits down with Raphaëlle Normandin to explore what it means to initiate back into our bodies—not through performance or perfection, but through sensation, slowness, and shadow. Raphaëlle shares her journey of being cracked wide open at her son's birth, describing it as a sacred descent and unraveling from who she had been into who she was becoming.
You'll discover why everything we're feeling is not too much but our medicine, how to shift from being in control to being with what arises, and why even our rage can be devotional. Raphaëlle guides us through her simple floor practice—laying down, breathing, letting the body tremble, and asking "what wants to be felt right now?"—revealing why allowing the trembling rather than calming it is sacred work. She opens up about releasing her armor and discovering that true strength doesn't hustle but trusts.
This conversation offers permission for women ready to feel what they've been taught to suppress—rage, grief, pleasure—and meet themselves there with reverence. Perfect for anyone who's tired of treating their body as a project and ready to discover it as the portal it truly is.
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