There is a “wild daughter” inside us all, and the old stories are her greatest medicine. A folktale told centuries ago holds the power to gift us great comfort—to liberate us from the modern story we are living in isolation and allow us to be witnessed. In The Book of Wild Daughters, you will find original healing maps, blueprints that outline patterns of initiation, death, and rebirth. Each chapter holds “night lore for the femme untamed,” stories that mirror the darkness of the feminine experience—renewal, shapeshifting, and wholeness reflected across cultures like antique mirrors.
The Book of Wild Daughters invites you to consider the “story behind all stories” and to locate yourself within the feminine initiation myth: severance, liminality, and renewal. Through the “lore of the wild daughter,” you are invited to consider not only where you are now in this story but also where you have been and where you might be headed.
The book explores hungry women, wolves on the road, stolen skins, devil’s bargains, guardian spirits, hidden helpers, trees with faces, the grief sea, the dance at the threshold, healing in the borderlands, wedding the beast, and the original map woven from fate, destiny, and emergence. Follow the three stages of the initiation journey:
Find your path to transformation, loss, rebirth, and becoming in The Book of Wild Daughters.
Danielle Dulsky is a heathen visionary, Aquarian mischief-maker, and word-witch. She is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman. She teaches internationally and has facilitated embodiment trainings, wild circles, communal spell-work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She believes in the power of wild collectives and sudden circles of curious dreamers, cunning witches, and rebellious artists as well as the importance of ancestral healing, embodiment, and animism in fracturing the longstanding systems supporting environmental unconsciousness and social injustice. Mother of two wild sons and wife of a hairy potter, Danielle fills her world with nature, family, art-making, poetry, and intentional awe.