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What if you could re-inhabit your life, even as you move through loss and grief?

You can. Starting here, beginning now.

On this page you'll find a simple 3-minute practice to invite peace, even when emotions feel chaotic. You can also explore sample issues of the Wild Now—the ones my readers return to most—and more.

When you subscribe, joining others around the world, you’ll get near-weekly insights, stories, and practices in your inbox to help you feel more alive in daily life—one mindful moment at a time.

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What is the Wild Now?

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Hello there. I’m Kimberley. If you’ve found your way here, you may be moving through loss, caught in emotions and thoughts that leave you feeling stuck or lost, or wondering if you’ll ever find your way back to you—a you who feels lighthearted, optimistic, purposeful, and fully alive.

The world has many ways to break the heart … and yet, it also offers moments of beauty and possibility—if you learn how to notice and tap into them.

That’s what this space, The Wild Now, is about: living with loss and with joy—true inner joy—every day.

On this page, you’ll find an app I created as my gift to you. It guides you through a simple three-minute “Tiny Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Ritual” to invite peace, even when life feels chaotic.

You’ll also see a few reader-favorite issues of The Wild Now for inspiration, solace, and a sense of company.

And if you’d like to stay connected, I send a near-weekly letter with stories, reflections, and simple practices to soften grief and help you begin anew—one mindful moment at a time.

I’d love for you to join me—just click on one of the Subscribe buttons. In the meantime, take good care of you.

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Discover the power of what I call a
“Tiny-Come-Back-to-Your-Senses Ritual.”

It’s a short, sensory practice ( just 3 minutes to start) that helps you pause—not to bypass grief, but to step out of it for awhile, reset, and experience a pocket of peace.

You’ll find other free resources in the app, too, created to help you nurture yourself and begin anew.

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Who am I & why keep reading?

Kimberley Pittman-Schulz

I’m Kimberley Pittman-Schulz, and I’m an award-winning writer, author & poet who guides readers and personally coaches clients through the wild, luminous journey of grief and renewal.

My dance with loss started early. As a toddler, I survived a house fire that my sisters, sleeping in the same room, did not. Over time I weathered a series of deaths that come with living on the planet awhile. As sole caregiver for my husband, ‘walking him home’ over the last 7 years of his life opened up new wells of resilience and meaning.

Writing is how I got through it all, and went on to help others do the same. You can learn more about me and the Wild Now by clicking ‘About’ in the menu above.

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🌿 Why I write


🔆 I write to explore an unknowable mystery—what it means to live, with significance and serenity, even as we know that those we love and, yes, we ourselves, are temporary beings.

🔆 I write out of curiosity, grief, delight, and peristence.

🔆 I write to connect the physical, natural world ‘out there,’ with the untouchable, hidden world ‘in here,’ because we are both animal bodies and human minds—and it’s hard to be happy if you’re not whole.

🔆 I write to share what I unearth with others, because I know that now, even with largest human population ever on this planet and technology that allows for global communication, many of us feel alone.

🔆 I write because, let’s be honest, we are a wordy species, and I want to tip the balance from words that hurt to words that lift.

🔆 I write to make magic, the sound of lead on paper or fingers tapping keys, creating snippets of stories, images, ideas, voilà!, out of the white emptiness before my eyes.

🔆 I write the Wild Now as a kindred journey, so as we step forward in a world that often seems random and mean, it’s easier to find, then embrace, what is lovely and meaningful to each of us.

A glimpse inside the Wild Now

Four reader favorites to honor what hurts and embrace what's next

The issues here are among the most-read and returned-to by my readers—writing and resources they say offer new perspectives, self-care ideas, a sense of shared journey & sparks of possibility.
Take a peek to see what might speak to You.
Is grief always & forever?
Q & A | What human experience & science say
The Wild NowKimberley Pittman-Schulz
Three doves, a sleepy bee, and one ambitious spider
Practicing the habit of wonder
The Wild NowKimberley Pittman-Schulz
It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your solace is?
Unlikely ways a caregiver becomes a care-receiver
The Wild NowKimberley Pittman-Schulz
Do joy and grief really co-exist?
Q & A | What human experience & science say | June 8, 2023
The Wild NowKimberley Pittman-Schulz

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I have gained so much from reading your book (Grieving Us) and now your blog/emails (The Wild Now). I lost my husband, my soulmate, almost 2 years ago after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, I too am facing the same fight ... I just want you to know I have benefited greatly from your words. Thank you again so much..”

— Julia L.