In this tender episode of Wild Permission, Alexis reflects on mortality, presence, and the power of living fully in the moment. She gently challenges you to pause, reconnect, and choose what matters most—right now.
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Today I feel tender, and I thought, what an interesting time to hit record. Life is so beautiful—and part of life is life ending. I’m in the middle of a lot of brushes with mortality.
I don’t have a lot of direct experience with death, but I’ve held many people through these kinds of journeys—either their own or their loved ones’. Something we forget is that we are only alive right now, in this present moment. Right now, as you listen to my voice, you’re alive. And that is literally the only moment you know you have.
And goddamn, do we squander that. Even now. Even now, I really love you listening to this, but is this the highest, best thing for you to do right now? Or are you putting on my voice to avoid something else? Are you listening to me while your child is asking you to play? Or while you’re doing a billion other things, multitasking out the wazoo?
Right now, as my voice is going in your ears, is this the thing you most want to do?
And if it’s not—and I almost hope it’s not, because there’s so much more to your life than listening to me—I might just be a stranger on the internet. I might be a person you’ve met; I have a lot of friends who listen here. But I might literally be a stranger on the internet, pulling you away from something else in your life.
And if I can just give you one little nudge to go to that other thing—if there was something that popped in your head when I first said “is this the highest, best?”—whatever popped into your head, I grant you, with the magical fairy-wand glitter power of my voice through my recorder into your ears, the absolute permission to just stop listening to me and go to that thing.
Because the time you have to be alive is now. You actually might not have one hour from now. But you have right now. And wow, what a beautiful, infinite gift—just right now.
And maybe right now the highest, best thing for you is to go put your feet naked on the earth. Maybe it’s to call that friend you haven’t talked to in a long time. Maybe it’s to close your eyes and rest. Maybe it’s just to stop everything. Just stop everything and listen. Maybe you continue listening to me, or maybe you embrace silence for a moment.
Because I don’t think there’s a single person on Earth who would agree that we are here to scroll a screen—even though I’m sure you’re listening to me through a screen of some type. But we’re human beings. We don’t live inside a box, or inside bits and chips and coding and screens and lights and “fast.”
We live in those barefoot outdoor moments, in the in-betweens, in the hugs and the embraces and the eye contact. In the connection, the desire, and the loss. That is being human.
And right now—this moment—is it. And it’s so special and beautiful because being human means being mortal. It means dying. It means sometimes losing over and over again. All the beauty we get to experience also includes the beauty of loss. And the searing pain of grief is oh so beautiful, because all of it is human.
Maybe you’re some interesting robot trying to learn about humanity listening to me—but I highly doubt that. You’re another human person, just like me, wanting to feel connected, seen, and safe.
And the way we do that—the way we feel seen and connected and whole—is to actually remember that we’re alive right now, literally right now. How can we be living into being the most alive?
The most alive doesn’t mean going on the biggest explorations. It means simply looking around where you are right now and being fully here. Fully here. Fully sitting beside your child on the couch at the end of the day. Fully. Because you’re alive.
Fully sitting down and resting because you’re alive. Not bringing anything else in because the world has told you you can’t stop. Being connected, being seen, and being whole is fed by noticing that right now you’re here. Alive. Breathing. Maybe feeling great, maybe feeling horrible—but you’re here. And that’s it. That’s literally it. And that’s so beautiful.
I’m so glad you’re here. Thanks for spending a human moment with me.
If you feel like you want to share a story back with me today, I would love to hear it. Maybe my words touched you. Maybe something came to mind. Maybe you left and then came back and listened to the rest of this. You can reach me anytime at hello@alexiswild.com, or you can pop onto any of my social medias.
It’s always a really special honor and treat to sit and record these words for you, and I don’t take it lightly that you just spent 10 minutes with me.
If I can close with just a little reminder: the way my words help you to feel is also something you can do for other people, too. I’m not a special, different type of person. I’m just like you.
And I’ve learned to be here now, in all the things. I’ve built capacity to hold what those things are, for the most part. And I’m continuously shifting and moving through my CPTSD and the things that I still notice every once in a while. I live in my body. But I’m not on top of a pedestal, a higher-developed human. I’m just like you.
And the gifts you see in me—I think you have them, too. And I can’t wait to see how you use them.
I love you. Thank you.
