DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOONSealskin, Soulskin
From severance to return.
A six-week live online psychological and mythic rite through instinct, grief, truth, vitality and return.
From severance to return.
There is a severance many women know.
She can be capable, needed, working, caring and loved.
From the outside, the life may look intact.
Within it, she may feel that something of her own life has been postponed so that everything else could continue.
Instinct dimmed.
Truth delayed.
Desire made negotiable.
The life underneath, still waiting.
And yet something remains.
A pulse beneath the accommodation.
A knowing beneath the endurance.
Something in the body that has never entirely agreed to disappear.
At times, she feels it clearly:
a cleaner no
a sharper instinct
a grief asking to move
the sudden recognition that she has been the one left out of her own life
Then the familiar arrangements close around her again.
Work. Relationships. Family. Emotional labour. Old loyalties. The management of other people’s comfort.
She may understand a great deal.
Her life has not yet changed shape around what she knows.
Sealskin, Soulskin begins there.
WHAT IS SEALSKIN, SOULSKIN?
Sealskin, Soulskin is a six-week live online rite for women who sense that they have been living at a distance from themselves.
Some arrive after years of therapy or inner work.
Others arrive because the body, the grief or the longing has begun saying what they cannot yet fully name.
No previous experience of myth, ritual or imaginal work is needed.
Across six doors, we work with feminist depth psychology, myth and fairy tale, imaginal journeying, ritual, symbolic practice and lived experience.
This is myth as method.
It gives image, form and movement to what explanation alone cannot always reach.
The work asks what it might mean for a woman to stop standing beside her own life and begin inhabiting it more fully.
To recognise what has survived.
To grieve what has been lost.
To end what can no longer accompany her.
To bring what returns into the life she is actually living.
WHERE THE WORK LANDS
The rite does not end in the chamber.
It enters ordinary life:
the relationship in which she hears herself sooner
the boundary that no longer requires a long defence
the moment she catches the old self-betrayal before completing it
the grief she allows to move
the desire she stops dismissing
the hour, room or choice she begins to keep for herself
the truth she can no longer smooth away
Many women have become practised at postponing themselves until everything feels manageable again.
Anger can wait.
Desire can wait.
Rest can wait.
Truth can wait.
Their own life can wait.
Sealskin, Soulskin interrupts that postponement.
It stays close to the places where a woman overrides what she knows, makes herself easier to receive, or remains loyal to an arrangement her body has already begun to leave.
Return here is lived through choices, speech, relationships, time, desire and the ordinary shape of a day.
WHAT BEGINS TO RETURN
Return often begins quietly.
A woman hears her body sooner.
A no arrives before the apology.
Grief begins to move.
Desire becomes easier to recognise.
She notices what belongs to her and what she has been carrying for others.
She trusts what she knows before explaining it away.
She abandons herself less quickly.
The life she has postponed begins to require a place.
Over time, the woman who returned in the chamber becomes more present in the life outside it.
We meet the places where women lose contact with themselves through adaptation, silence, over-loyalty, emotional management and relational self-abandonment.
Throughout the six doors, we listen for what has remained:
instinct
vitality
desire
grief
truth
self-trust
the life underneath
THE EXPERIENCE
Sealskin, Soulskin is held as a small and intimate live online group.
Before we begin, a ritual parcel is sent to your door.
Across six weeks, we meet live in chamber, one door at a time.
Each 90-minute chamber includes imaginal journeying, ritual work and space for witnessing what is opening.
There are no recordings because this is not content to catch up on. It is a live chamber to enter.
Between chambers, the work continues.
Each week, you receive a chamber letter containing a reading, ritual and keeping practice to carry into the days between our meetings.
After the sixth door, a 40-day keeping practice helps the work root in daily life. You will also receive one private one-to-one integration session.
The rite unfolds slowly enough for the work to land psychologically, symbolically and in the body.
It is something to live with, cross through and carry forward.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Sealskin, Soulskin is for women no longer convinced by “fine.”
Women who sense that instinct, vitality or deeper knowing has become difficult to hear.
Women who are tired of keeping life moving at the cost of their own presence within it.
Women who understand a great deal and are ready for what they know to reach the life they are living.
You may be done with overriding yourself to keep everything manageable.
Done with postponing what matters.
Done with calling absence peace.
Or you may have no finished language for what is happening yet.
Only the feeling that something within you is ready to stop living so far from its own life.
You do not need to arrive certain, healed or perfectly articulate.
You need to be willing to enter the chambers live, stay close to what opens and carry the work into the ordinary days between them.
THE Investment
.£555
Payment plans are available.
Your place includes:
Six live 90-minute chambers including imaginal journeys
A ritual parcel sent to your door
Six weekly chamber letters
Readings, rituals and keeping practices
A 40-day integration practice
One private one-to-one integration session
Dates
TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Six live online chambers.
Thursdays: 7-8.30pm UK time
There are no recordings.
WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY:“The ritual box felt exquisite. Before I had even opened it, I felt tears and goosebumps. It felt like stepping over a huge threshold - an initiation of sorts. Even touching each object, I could feel that the work was already alive.”
- DAWN HARDING - COUNSELLOR AND ENERGY HEALER
About LAVINIA WILDE
PSYCHOTHERAPIST | WRITER | MYTHIC GUIDE
MA | BA (HONS) | PG DIP | PG CERTI am a feminist Jungian psychotherapist, writer and mythic guide.
My work asks how a woman recovers the authority to define and inhabit her own life.
For more than two decades, I have accompanied women through the places where inherited loyalties, old adaptations and unlived truths begin to press against the life they have known.
Raised during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, my practice is grounded in professional training and lived understanding. I bring depth psychology, feminist thought, myth, language and the body into conversation, creating spaces where nothing has to be performed and where women can question inherited laws, recognise the authority of their own knowing, and allow life to change around what becomes true.