The Wild Return

006 - Summer Energy: Tending Your Inner Fire

In this episode, we’ll explore the energies of summer as peak vitality, abundance, pleasure, and presence, inviting us to receive, savor, and shine.  I talk about summer’s long days, sensory richness, and the paradox of bustling “doing” energy held by steady “being,” then explain why mothers often struggle to access summer medicine: carrying the mental load as the manager of it all, the cultural myth of the selfless/sexless mother, and “maternal numbing” from chronic sensory overload that dulls both overwhelm and joy.  I offer some simple practices to reconnect—sunlight, water as a sensory reset, play (especially with kids), and flowers as beauty cues. Then I introduces Radiant Mama Ritual, a one-time one-hour session to co-create a doable, customized daily sacred practice aligned with a mother’s season, needs, and sensory preferences.  You’ll will hear about: seasonal wisdom and summer energy; motherhood barriers to pleasure/aliveness; sensory-based practices with sun, water, and flowers; and details on Radiant Mama Ritual and how to sign up early. 🖤 Connect with me on Instagram @sarah.schott [https://www.instagram.com/sarah.schott/] & @thewildreturnpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thewildreturnpodcast] or email at rootandrise.life@gmail.com 🖤 Download your free Everyday Rituals guide [https://www.rootandrise.life/free-guide] to transform your daily life and bring the sacred into the everyday moments and alchemize your routines into acts of devotion to your one wild beautiful life.  🖤Visit my website [https://www.rootandrise.life] to explore the ways we might work together  PS -- about this gorgeous music: it's the song: “What My Heart is Looking For” by Bonner Black from Soundstripe.com

005 - In My "Re-Enchantment Era": A Life Update

I’m back after a longer-than-planned break, here to share a life update and some reflections as I embrace what I’m calling my “re-enchantment era” and choosing FUN as my foundational frequency. I also share about how my work is evolving toward more ritual and ceremony, including a new, limited time, summer offering called Radiant Mama Ritual coming next month!! 🖤 Connect with me on Instagram @sarah.schott [https://www.instagram.com/sarah.schott/] & @thewildreturnpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thewildreturnpodcast] or email at rootandrise.life@gmail.com 🖤 Download your free Everyday Rituals guide [https://www.rootandrise.life/free-guide] to transform your daily life and bring the sacred into the everyday moments and alchemize your routines into acts of devotion to your one wild beautiful life.  🖤Visit my website [https://www.rootandrise.life] to explore the ways we might work together  PS -- about this gorgeous music: it's the song: “What My Heart is Looking For” by Bonner Black from Soundstripe.com

004 - Awakening to Spring: Reflections and Practices for the Equinox

In this episode, we talk about the Spring Equinox (Ostara) and celebrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year, especially as a mother creating family traditions. The Equinox marks a threshold of balance (equal day and night), as well as the astrological new year. I see early spring as a slow unfolding, rather than a time to rush, encouraging the integration of winter lessons, releasing what no longer fits, listening to the body’s needs, and trusting in nature’s timing. I offer ideas for simple rituals to honor this sacred celebration, including witnessing the sunrise/sunset, spring cleaning for the home and cleansing baths/scrubs for the body, nature walks and seasonal watching, egg decorating, a gratitude practice, creating beauty, and a seed-planting ritual, plus journaling prompts on balance, joy, awakening, seeds, and growth. 🖤 Connect with me on Instagram @sarah.schott [https://www.instagram.com/sarah.schott/] & @thewildreturnpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thewildreturnpodcast] or email at rootandrise.life@gmail.com 🖤 Download your free Everyday Rituals guide [https://www.rootandrise.life/free-guide] to transform your daily life and bring the sacred into the everyday moments and alchemize your routines into acts of devotion to your one wild beautiful life.  🖤Visit my website [https://www.rootandrise.life] to explore the ways we might work together  PS -- about this gorgeous music: it's the song: “What My Heart is Looking For” by Bonner Black from Soundstripe.com

003 - The Spirals of Life: Embracing Discomfort and Growth

In this episode I share about what’s been coming for me in my own journey over the past weeks. We’ll explore growth as a cyclical “spiral” rather than linear progress, reframing recurring challenges and “darker” phases as portals for transformation instead of problems to fix. I discuss the cultural tendencies to medicate, pathologize, and monetize women’s rites of passage and why these thresholds matter for personal and collective change. 🖤 Connect with me on Instagram @sarah.schott [https://www.instagram.com/sarah.schott/] & @thewildreturnpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thewildreturnpodcast] or email at rootandrise.life@gmail.com 🖤 Download your free Everyday Rituals guide [https://www.rootandrise.life/free-guide] to transform your daily life and bring the sacred into the everyday moments and alchemize your routines into acts of devotion to your one wild beautiful life.  🖤Visit my website [https://www.rootandrise.life] to explore the ways we might work together  PS -- about this gorgeous music: it's the song: “What My Heart is Looking For” by Bonner Black from Soundstripe.com

002 - Late Winter Wisdom + Spring Equinox Circle Announcement

In this episode, we reflect on living in connection with seasonal rhythms as a framework for personal growth, noting how modern life can disconnect humans from nature and contribute to burnout, hormonal chaos, emotional overwhelm, and feeling untethered. Sarah also discusses women’s layered seasonality—yearly seasons, menstrual and lunar rhythms, and life phases (maiden, mother, maga, crone). The episode focuses on late winter and Imbolc as a transition marked by rest, introspection, the fertile void, and quiet creative potential, with “start/stop” energy that invites nourishment and capacity-building before spring.  She shares practical ways to align with this season—mindful rest, following curiosity and creativity, deep nourishment, spring cleaning/decluttering, and time in nature—plus journal prompts about aliveness, devotion, support, readiness for action, and what needs releasing.  Sarah announces a virtual Spring Equinox circle, “From the Wellspring,” on Sunday, March 22 at 2:00 PM Eastern, which will be interwoven with ritual, including a release practice, a guided journey into one’s inner wellspring, and creating a nature mandala. 🖤 Sign up for "From the Wellspring" here [https://rootrise.as.me/wellspring]! 🖤 Connect with me on Instagram @sarah.schott [https://www.instagram.com/sarah.schott/] & @thewildreturnpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/thewildreturnpodcast] or email at rootandrise.life@gmail.com 🖤 Download your free Everyday Rituals guide [https://www.rootandrise.life/free-guide] to transform your daily life and bring the sacred into the everyday moments and alchemize your routines into acts of devotion to your one wild beautiful life.  🖤Visit my website [https://www.rootandrise.life] to explore the ways we might work together  PS -- about this gorgeous music: it's the song: “What My Heart is Looking For” by Bonner Black from Soundstripe.com