Mexico changed me in many ways. Not just seeing a country where there is less prosperity than we’re used to. Where what we see as normal in the Czech Republic doesn’t exist at all. I liked the palm trees, the sea, the cenotes, and diving with turtles. But that probably doesn’t interest you much.

From many of you I know that you want to hear what was happening in the Mexican jungle, and how an UNTAMED woman is made.

So that you can take something from it too, I’ll give you a question for the body with each part. Maybe take them to a meeting with a friend and try having an Untamed coffee together by answering them side by side:

1. BODY

Which part of your body do you like the least? What can you do to accept it? Not to change the body—but the thoughts about it.

2. EMOTIONS

If you could imagine in front of you a man who would listen to any pain caused by another man. Maybe your father hurt you, a partner, or a guy from Tinder who ghosted you. If you could let anything out—anger, screaming, maybe even hitting him with permission. And he would hold it. He would receive your suffering without commentary, in a loving and supportive masculinity. You would feel seen and heard.

3. RESPONSIBILITY 

Where do you repeatedly complain about something that troubles you? It goes in circles and even you can’t listen to yourself anymore. Are you willing to leave this story? Just drop it and say enough. If not, what is stopping you? Often it’s the fear that we don’t know who we would be without that story. Can your friend support you in your step into the unknown?

4. CREATIVE FORCE

This is something I don’t really know how to describe. On the last day we gathered in a circle. Each of us had to dance to an unknown song (the whole thing!) in front of the eyes of the other women. But the dance had to come from the soul, from the body, from connection with the music. Not from performance or trying to follow rhythm or choreography. It was breathtaking.

I don’t quite know how to recreate this. Some things can only be experienced in a group of sisters. In a magical circle of safety. But still – by accepting your body (point no. 1), releasing anger and pain (point no. 2), and letting go of the victim story (point no. 3), you will feel that you begin to move differently. In a greater flow from which new ideas will arise.

Because life doesn’t like a vacuumand wherever we make space, it always sends something new.

You stand at the gate. And you decide what you let in.

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