You are an absolute gift of a human and you've shared your vast experience, wisdom and knowledge with such ease, authenticity and generosity

Hello, and thankyou for wandering your way here.

I'm Beth, founder of The Wild Path School, mother, fox woman, and mucky footed heathen. Here you will find a little of my story and experience.

Ive spent twenty five years working in the mental health system, designing and offering non clinical, holistic services with and to people whose stories have been made symptoms by a system intent on fixing those it deems broken. 

Over this time I Iearned that one of the greatest gifts we can offer each other is presence. So, for the last twenty years Ive been attuning to the human and other than human through authentic presence and deep listening, honing an intuitive ability to guide with fierce tenderness, warmth and wisdom.  

As an experienced ecopsychological and eco/somatic practitioner Ive walked beside hundreds of women, guiding them into a reclamation of their wild nature and remembering of what it means to be fully, wholly human. 

Much of my personal journey has been untangling from the conditioning  of a grammar school education and healing the wounds of fractured parental relationships. The last ten years have been an excavation of my true self, buried under layers of masks and shields carrying stories of being simultaneously too much and not enough.

In 2018 the walls came tumbling down and I went to the only place I felt ok. I went to nature, and I walked. I found a sense of peace and clarity  through hours and hours of wandering in the flat landscapes and vast skies of my Suffolk homeland. 

Over time, something ancient stirred, and I began to come into a new/old conversation with the meadows and woodlands, birds, beasts and beings. 

As I walked those paths, in swirling winds and tumbling rains, so did I begin walking the path back home to myself. 

My curiousity and passion for exploring the dynamic relationship between all life then led me into three years of study with the Natural Academy, completing  a Level 4 Advanced Ecopsychology and Nature Based Practice and further training in Eco Somatics, Somatic Parts work and Integral Somatic Psychology.  (You'll find more details of my training and qualifications below). My vast experience and knowledge guiding women back to their wild and natural self,  and my own personal journey, led me to create the Embodied Reclamation ℠ Framework, which underpins all the passages and offerings you will find here.

After a profound experience with land and fire in 2021, whilst on a solo fasted Vision Quest in the wilderness of West Wales, Ive been guiding individuals and groups through unique and transformative experiences in nature.

My own journey of self healing and wholing has led me deep into a courtship with mystery, eros and soul, opening up the channels of Self to embody Earths dreaming, guided by my mentor and trusted elders.

 I don't believe our journey back to our true self is ever finished, there is no end definitive end point. My journey so far has been transformative, I live from a truly authentic, soul centric place and I feel whole. That said, there are still parts of me that feel difficult to know and love, and that's ok. Its important that we don't mistake wholeness with 'perfection'. 

The path is a winding one, full of beauty, wonder, relief, pain, discomfort, elation and everything in between. Now when I look in the mirror I see the woman looking back at me, I really see her. I know her and I trust her.  I continue to walk my wild path back to wholeness, and have found belonging, fulfilment and purpose in remembering myself as nature and nurturing a deep, reciprocal and animate relationship to the more than human.

It has been said that my superpower is creating authentic, nurturing, transformative spaces for women to come into relationship with all of who they are. The imperfect, messy, mucky, chaotic deliciousness of what it means to be fully human. You can read what some of our previous path travellers have to say about their time with me here

I hope to meet your wild heart, and walk the Wild Path with you soon,

Love, Beth

Woman of Earth

 Rescued from the streets of Romania, Ralph is a truly wise, beautiful being. If you join us for in person group programmes then its likely you will find yourself in circle with Ralph at your feet.

 Intuitive and affectionate, Ralph has a way of bringing joy and play into this work, knowing just when its the right time to zoomie around the meadow or rest his head on a lap.  

With eyes that speak the wisdom of his soul, Ralph brings an energy that is difficult to capture in words. When you meet him, you'll know what we mean!