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Wild Permission with Alexis WildPermission is yours for your wild, beautiful life! Author: Alexis Wild
Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Christine Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you areworthy, powerful, and enoughwhile inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com About Alexis:Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feelsand what she hopes you will feel too. Since 2014, her richly textured canvases have woven together bold colour, flowing movement, and hidden words of affirmation, poetry, and intention. Each piece is layered with meaning, as if the artwork itself is whispering, You have permission to be exactly who you are.From her light-filled home studio in London, Ontario, Alexis creates work that now lives in homes and collections around the world. She is also the host of the Wild Permission podcast and curator of The Space, a vibrant small business incubator where creativity and community meet.Working mainly with acrylics and plaster on canvas, Alexis invites viewers to come closerbecause the deeper you look, the more you find. Her art is both a visual experience and an emotional one, sparking connection to self and others alike.And Alexiss creativity doesnt stop at the canvas. By pairing her art practice with her passion for guiding others, she helps people make bold, aligned moves in their own livestransforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change. Language: en-us Genres: Arts, Education, Self-Improvement, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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29. All of the Human Experience
Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
Alexis shares a vulnerable story about an art competition, disappointment, and the importance of loving every version of ourselves — even the ones that feel lost or discouraged. A gentle reminder that all our experiences are worthy, and all our feelings belong.♥Wild Permission is your reminder that you already have everything it takes to live the life you want. Your dreams matter. You matter.Hosted by artist and permission-giver Alexis Wild, this podcast is your space for quick bursts of courage, truth, and joy. Alexis helps you remember who you are—worthy, powerful, and enough—while inviting you to step into your wildest, truest self.This is your permission slip to follow your desires, trust your heart, and create a beautiful life on your own terms.www.alexiswild.comwww.wildpermission.com ♥ Prefer to read? UNEDITTED TRANSCRIPT BELOW ♥Today, I have a bit of a story, a realization, and a reminder to share with you. And if you’ve been following along on my journey and you’re listening to this at the time that I post it, at the current time:I was in a really big art competition. There were a thousand submissions, and a hundred of us were accepted. And then there were four really big cash prizes, and I wanted to win one. I wanted to win one, and I did a lot of work to try to win one.And I didn’t win one. I did get in the top 10, but I didn’t win, and my inner child self had a lot of feelings about that. A lot of those feelings revolved around the perception of not being enough and the perception of always ending up back in this place of trying really hard and then not quite making the mark.It had me in a bit of a discombobulation for about a week and a half, which is a really long time for me right now, because I’m generally able to move through things within a couple of days or less.What I found myself saying during that week and a half was, “I’m not quite myself” or “I’m feeling really strange, and I’m not really sure what to do. I don’t really feel like this very often.”When I came through to the other side — and I did that by feeling my feelings, letting myself feel the disappointment of really giving something my best shot and just not quite meeting the mark — I thought, “Top 10 is amazing, but it’s not top four, right?”But I got a really cute little trophy, and I got to be a person who walked across the stage at an art competition. Those are really big things.When I came through the week and a half and settled back in, I then found myself saying, “I remembered who I am,” and “I got back to myself, and everything is great again.”What I want to remind us today — and what I want to caution us against, and remind myself as well — is that that week-and-a-half self who was a little bit confused and disoriented and disappointed and sad and struggling is equally as important and beautiful and valuable and good as the version of me leaving this podcast message to you now.In fact, during that week and a half, I spent so much time thinking about the fact that I was struggling, or I didn’t quite know how to get back on track, that I imagine it kept me off track for longer.And we can go even further and say, well, what even is “the track”? Because if I’m a human person having a human experience and I was just part of this art competition that I gave so much time and attention to and asked so many people for help and did so much promoting and so much time giving of myself, and then for it to be over — of course I’m going to have feelings, however it ended.And why does that then mean that I’m “off track” or “not quite myself”? Because in fact, I am so much myself that the self that I am at that time is discouraged and disappointed. And she’s so beautiful. That self is wonderful, and that self is having an equally important and valuable human experience as the self who goes for a hike and gets to experience the miracle of nature and trees and the dew on the grass. Those two parts are equal.If I find myself in that place of confusion or discombobulation or disappointment, and then I’m putting myself down because I’m there, or I’m saying to other people that I’m “not quite myself,” then I’m really reiterating the disconnection between that version of me and the version that I maybe prefer to embody.When I realized this, it was quite humbling, because I realized that I didn’t take the opportunity to extend as much love as I could have to myself after that competition and in the week that followed. I felt so tired and I felt so drained, and I felt like, “Here I am again, at the end of my rope, and this is how life is always going to be.”Of course, that is not true. But I didn’t take the time to just love myself in that feeling — to not make it bad, to not say anything about it, just to let it be. Let that feeling have some attention and care and love, and to feel it. To feel the shame of that type of emotion and the really deep pit in the stomach and the tightness in the chest and all the physical sensations that come along with that type of emotion.And I’m sure you’ve felt it too. Maybe you can remember how visceral it is, how much it really must be seen and felt in order to get to the other side.And it’s all okay. Every single experience that we get to have as a human is part of being human. However we believe that we came to be human here on Earth, we’re human here on Earth. There’s no way around that. You are a human person listening to me — unless you’re a weird robot training yourself on my voice — but anyway, you’re a human person listening to me. I’m a human person speaking into this device, and the speakers are going into your ears.We’re human people. So can’t we remember that? Can’t we allow the whole spectrum of feelings to be felt and to be okay? That’s what I want to remember.And then maybe next time, when I’m having a week and a half of strange feelings, I’ll be able to really allow love and care and devotion to sink into my bones. And you know what? It might not make the process any faster. Maybe I feel kind of funny for two weeks. But at least I feel kind of funny and I’m giving and receiving love. And that’s the magic.So I just want to remind you today that you can do that too — that whatever you’re feeling, maybe something that might feel sticky that you’ve been holding for a little bit — there’s nothing wrong. There’s nothing wrong at all. You’re so worthy of this human experience and of getting to have the human experience that you desire to have.It’s really deep and magical and abundant to accept all the experiences that we have.Thank you for listening. And thank you for contemplating and exploring these types of ideas with me. I hope your day is very blessed.I love you, and I’m proud of you.
