11. Dance With It, Baby!

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.

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Hello, welcome again. It's Tuesday! Oh my gosh, another week. Look at you. Look at you in that last week. Look at the things that you moved through such grace. Look at the things that maybe didn't go quite as you hoped. Look at the times that you stumbled and fell down and got back up again. Wow! You have so much to be proud of and I'm so proud of you.

I want to talk today about dancing. I am a dancer! I love dancing, nothing professional. I am not so fantastic at coordination of steps. But I love to feel what is in my body and wants to be expressed. And when I think about dancing, it feels full and overflowing and abundant in my body. And it feels like a gift to myself to move in whatever way feels good at that time. Sometimes it looks pretty weird. Who looks totally bizarre arms flailing leg shaking. And who am I kidding? Yes, also boobs flying all over the place. But those times when it feels really wild and maybe a bit ugly.

I'm also allowing my body to do just what it feels like doing in that moment. With no cares in the world. And I don't know about you, but have you ever watched a child who's so into the music? And his dancing was wild abandon? Whoever watched that they could care less what anybody else thinks. They're not paying attention to how it looks, to paying attention to how it feels. And I want to invite you today when this podcast is done if you can just to pop on one song and to allow your body to move in whatever ways come up. At the beginning, perhaps you might feel stiff or you might feel uncomfortable. But maybe by the end of the song. You'll be craving more. You'll want more of this movement. More of this giving to yourself. As humans we're born in bodies for a reason. These bodies are our compass these bodies are our guides these bodies hold everything that it is that we have gone through and also everything it is that we want to be and moving in our bodies in a way that feels good and also in a way that feels just right. Maybe not so pleasurable. Maybe not so perfect, but Right. Maybe a shaking, maybe a groaning only you know in that specific moment what your body needs, and only you can give it and so in the movements that feel good and maybe odd we're allowing our body to feel emotions. Because where else do emotions come from? If not our bodies right we can think in our brains that we feel deeply in our bodies. And sometimes no amount of thinking can stop us from feeling a certain way. And so I want to share with you some different ways to shift and feel emotions through our bodies and to get out of that thinking brain because thinking and feeling are not the same. And so, where we need to feel is in fact in our bodies.

And let's think about the last time you felt very angry. You probably felt like lashing out or throwing something or punching something. And you didn't have to think it through. You felt the anger and you felt the immediate need to defuse that anger. Perhaps with a blow and maybe you gave that to yourself. Maybe you allowed yourself to punch a pillow. I have a perfect feather pillow that is the perfect punching pillow. Highly recommend or maybe you stopped yourself because it wasn't the right time or wasn't the right place. Or maybe you were afraid of those big feelings.

But in the stopping you have stopped that cycle of feeling in the cycle of emotion in its tracks. And there will come a time where that anger that you felt but didn't express it's gonna come knocking again and the next time it might knock a little louder because you didn't listen the first time and if you block it and push it down again. Well, next time it's gonna really have to bang on the door, isn't it? Our feelings need to be felt. And here's some ideas for anger. Perhaps you go for a drive and blare music and yell or stop in an abandoned parking lot and scream and wail and pound your hands on the driving on the steering wheel does it sound like I know this from experience? Absolutely.

Because I know that my anger must come out. And if I don't allow it, sometimes it shows up at a time that is even worse. Or it shows up with my family. So when I can give myself the gift of fully expressing any emotion, anger, grief, despair, joy, happiness, satisfaction, when I can give myself the gift of expressing those. Then it means that they don't have to pop up all over the place to try to get my attention because they know they're going to be valued and they know that I'm going to pay attention to them. And the thing about this is every time that you pay attention to your emotion and allow it to be felt to its completion, and only you can know when that is then the next time it's easier to do and the next time it's easier to do and the next time it's easier to do and you'll find that instead of days spent feeling off and odd. You can now move through the uncomfortable and challenging emotions rather quickly, sometimes in minutes because you're showing up for yourself in a way that that shows all your feelings that they matter to you're showing up in a way that allows your feelings to feel honored.

And gosh think about it. Think about it when you feel honored by another person. Do what you almost want to be on your best behavior 20 You almost want to show your best face, do what you want to make them believe in you and trust you and respect you almost even more so think about that for our emotions. Think about honoring and respecting your anger. And then the reciprocity of that. Your anger now wants to work with you and now wants to guide you and now wants to dance with you and now wants to work together with you so that it can be heard and you can be heard and you can carry on with your day everything that we feel matters challenging or not. And we all want to feel happy and joyful.

Being human means we're not always going to feel happy and joyful because life comes with challenges. And they're happening for us and every single one can be held out and investigated and looked at and every every challenge can have its silver lining, let's be cliche and every emotion as well. And perhaps maybe you need some space from your emotions when they're big. And can you imagine holding them in front of you and looking at them from every angle and every facet. And finding something that interests you about it and simply asking your anger. What do you need from me? We forget that we can communicate and have conversations with our emotions with our inner child with our inner wisdom with our bodies. And when we ask these questions, it is surprising the answers that we will get

Maybe it is dancing, maybe just punching a pillow maybe just driving in your van. Maybe it's some tre.

Maybe it's going for a walk or a run. Maybe it's lifting weights. Maybe it's jumping on your kids trampoline. Feeling your emotions through your body. All always be a gift. And the more you do it, the easier it becomes. And the easier it becomes, the more impactful each feeling becomes because you know that nothing is wrong. And it allows you to be so compassionate and loving to yourself in the times that are challenging. And it allows you to open up a communication to find out what kind of dance your body wants here to see what kind of vocalization needs to come. And you in this investigating

If you can maintain some curiosity as you begin to dance with your emotions, you will find that it's interesting, and it's intriguing and it's kind of fun to learn about the ways that you can work with yourself and you will find things that you have no idea for example, the Tre and that is engaging your muscles in such a way to trigger the muscle spasms to release emotions that are stuck in our bodies. Maybe you do tapping. There's so many different modalities that can help you to dig deeper. And also it's as simple sometimes as taking a walk taking a walk speaking to yourself with such love and kindness, asking your emotions what they want to tell you and making it fun dancing with it. I'll leave you here with again an invitation to pop out a song. Move your body in whichever way it wants to move.

Maybe there isn't things stuck in there that need to be investigated or needs to be released through your body. I can't know but I know somebody who does. And I know somebody who's a pretty good expert and it's you. And you are so, so so knowledgeable in who you are. And don't ever forget that because the world has told you that you are not the expert. But you are the one living in this body. You're the one feeling these feelings, thinking these thoughts living this life. And it's yours to dance with baby you've got this

About Alexis:

Some artists paint what they see. Alexis Christine Wild paints what she feels—and 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 closer—because 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 Alexis’s creativity doesn’t 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 lives—transforming her work into a living dialogue between courage, self-expression, and meaningful change.