23. Lovers

In this episode, Alexis invites you to imagine your passion as a lover—something that deserves devotion, excitement, and intentional time. She shares a story of sneaking 10 minutes with her painting and explores how even small moments of creative connection can spark aliveness. Tune in for inspiration to weave your deepest desires into everyday life with love and playfulness.

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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.

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TRANSCRIPT

Hello, oh, I'm so excited to share this idea and concept with you today, and it feels really juicy and Alive. And, um, decadent and abundant when I feel this in my body and? I know for you, I know for you. That there is something. That feeds your soul that you want to bring out into the world.

And I don't know what it is, but I know you have a thing. Maybe it's music. Maybe it's making art like I do. Maybe it's creating something else. Maybe it's being a really great parent, um, maybe it's really putting everything into your work and whatever the thing is? I invite you today to consider what it would be like if you treated that as if it was your lover.

And what type of energy? Is a lover, a lovership relationship. To me when I think of a lover, I think of creation. I think of amplifying, I think of adorning myself in beautiful ways. When I meet them, I think of being my best. I think of exploring, I think of excitement.

I think of looking forward to. So, if we were to treat the things that we want to create and our passions as a lover, then would we not want to spend more time in those things? Would we not consider it more often? Would we not look for ways to honor that in our lives?

Look for ways to create more energy around it. Look for ways to talk about it. Look for ways to really. Allow that feeling of Desire towards our passion to just flow into as many parts of our life as possible. I don't know about you, but when I am leaning into a new relationship or exploring further.

With somebody current and like dipping my toes into more. I think about it a lot, right? We think about these energy growing relationships a lot. And so, then we think of the people when we're out and about of the store. And we see something that they might like, and we pick it up, or we make plans to spend more time with them.

Maybe the time that we're spending is even like, very, very short. Maybe we pop into their work for five minutes? Though we plan our life to be able to engage. With our lover. Right, and even the word lover carries with it. And energy. A creative, expansive feeling when I think about it.

And how this came to me today was I was dropping off my kids and then I was heading to meet a friend and I told them I would come right after I dropped off my kids. I said I'll be to like 9, 15, 9, 30. And then I realized this morning when I got up that I really wanted to do another layer on my painting lead follow.

And. This painting's nearing the end. But every time that I add paint, I have to wait for it to dry before I can add the next layer. If you've seen my art, you know, there's a lot happening. A lot of colors, a lot of energy. And so, what I decided to do was to drop off my kids a few minutes, early three minutes early, just a few.

And I had hopped back in the van and drove back home so that I could spend 10 minutes on the canvas before I left again. And I. My kid's driveway at 905. I ran home. I added some white, beautiful netting type patterns to the painting, and I got back in my car.

I got a 917, and I made it to see my friend before 9, 30. And I could look at this and be, like, oh my God, that was so frantic. Like, you did all this running around this morning. I spent 10 minutes with my lover this morning in my backyard.

I fit my passion. I fit my love into a spot this morning that I created so I could be in that energy. With this. And as I, if I think about this creation that I am making this lead, follow painting. It really is a lovership relationship. Because I have to put intention in intentional time energy, I have to be thinking about it a lot.

What does this painting want? How can I serve it? How can I create more here? And it feels really alive to consider this painting and my body of work and myself as an artist. As a relationship that is not. Not even a friendship, but is a lover? Because a lover is an energy that grows in a different type of way, right?

It's kind of sexy. It's kind of. More, and I'm certainly not saying friendships are not valuable or parenting relationships are not valuable. But if we think of the word lover, there's something a little bit more electric there. Then the word mother or friend? And the type of aliveness that I desire to have with my work with my passion.

Is that of lover because I want to keep the energy alive I want to stay in the flow of excitement? An aliveness. And so, as you consider the thing that I referenced at the beginning, what your passion is the thing you want to create, just want to invite you to lean into?

What would it feel like to treat that as a lover? Would you maybe want to sneak more minutes in with that? You wouldn't even believe how much I did in 10 minutes, and it felt so good. You definitely have 10 minutes. You have 10 minutes to write a bit more of your story.

You have 10 minutes to sit down and make some music. And it can fit in between the other parts of your life. You don't have to pretend it's a sneaky Affair. It can be a lover that you shout your love from the rooftops. It can be the best love affair that you have ever had, but not in secret.

Because if something lights you up this much, you can't even keep it a secret anyways. That's why I had to pop on this morning and talk to you about this. Because I couldn't keep this alive energy a secret. Because I know that you can feel this too. And maybe you decide not to use the word lover, then maybe there's something else that can really?

Give you the feeling of. Devotion and excitement and aliveness for the things that you're meant to create. Because whatever they are. I want to see them in the world. And I want you to be them in the world. Because the things that you're meant to create are there for you.

And if you don't make them, we don't get to experience them. But I really want to experience your work in the world, whatever it is. Please, please, if you feel John. Shoot me a quick message on one of my platforms, wild permission, or Alexis Christine Wilde, and let me know what that little passion is.

Give your love a name so I can celebrate it too. Thank you so much for popping on and listening to me today. I hope that you're able to feel alive and connected. I love you. And you're so worthy.