A Seasonal Membership for Midlife Women
Enter a place where you’ll remember who you are beyond all roles.
Midlife Wilderness Basecamp is a sanctuary for your playful Self.
The parts of you who want need to be:
writing - just for the joy in verbs and vowels, or
drawing - just to keep our minds where our hands are for a while, or
knitting - just to explore colors and patterns with the leftovers in the basket, or
wandering around your backyard - only to touch every single plant and delight in nature’s infinite creativity
And not just when “time allows” (because left to her own devices, time only ever speeds up), or when “things are less crazy” (because things have a tendency to increase their level of crazy).
At Midlife Wilderness Basecamp, we are not ignoring what’s heavy in the world.
We use our creativity as an anti-anxiety supplement and turn our joy into a tool of resistance.
Basecamp opens on June 21.
If you’re “not vibing” with midlife, you’re not alone.
Many women aren’t, while believing that they should.
We worked so hard to check all the boxes. Shouldn’t we just be so grateful for our family (whatever that looks like for you), our safe, cozy home, our well-paying job, and all our other privileges?
Personally, I am a questioner of all “shoulds,” but I do believe it’s important to thank the parts that got us where we are. Resilience, ambition, selflessness, and the rest of the well-adjusted team.
While also listening to what wants to emerge next.
Noticing the itch that comes from the old skin that’s getting too tight.
Honoring the slightly (very?) weird, rebellious, mischievous, artistic person we used to be.
Our culture allows little time and space for women to simply follow our whims, but you’ve probably tried a few things:
Explored new hobbies, signed up for some classes, perhaps even went through all 12 weeks of The Artist’s Way, but then there’s just no time in the day or space in the house for that new side of you.
Maybe you invested in the yoga teacher training, but being in the front of the room takes the yoga out of the movement.
Maybe you went to your dream retreat, and when you got home, your co-habitants still complained about peas on the plate and screen limits on their phones.
And if you’re being honest, you’re secretly wondering if time has already run out for the wild parts deep inside of you.
Basecamp is for women who arrive in midlife, no longer able to tell the difference between intuition, obligation, and anxiety.
Imagine a Summer
filled with permission, inspiration, and motivation.
⚘ kitchen table artistry ⚘ backyard safaris ⚘ your own nature-ness
⚘ kitchen table artistry ⚘ backyard safaris ⚘ your own nature-ness
Midlife Wilderness Basecamp opens on June 21, the summer solstice.
Inside, you will make something uselessly silly and love it anyway.
You will notice joy arriving before anxiety does.
You will remember that your life belongs to you, too.
How?
Themes at Basecamp will change each season (since we are seasonal beings, even if we have been made to forget).
However, the structure stays the same. When you join, you’ll receive:
a set of simple nature-based nervous system regulation tools so that you find what works for you, even when the world feels too heavy for joy
monthly 90-minute restorative nature sessions on Zoom so that you can turn off your thinking brain and feel how freeing it is to come back to all your senses.
bi-weekly zines in your inbox, filled with micro-quests to create, play, and un-worry
an online space to connect with other women on the same trail, for cross-pollination and co-regulation
Summer is the season of lightness, play, and action. Not just for your family members, but you, too.
You can join now for the whole year ($333), or one season ($88).
The first 10 women to join will also get a private 1-hour guide session with me. Time to talk through what’s moving (or stagnating) for you as we go through the season.
Hi, I am Sylke
I am opening Midlife Wilderness Basecamp because I keep hearing the same things from clients and friends who have all the successes the culture expects of them and still feel discontent.
Sentences like:
I gave and gave, give and give, and then things keep popping up, and it's still not my time.
There is just no space for creativity in my life anymore.
The world is on fire, and I am supposed to prioritize joy?
Well, YES!
I believe that joy is neither selfish nor frivolous. It’s the compass that leads us back to our Self.
I believe that nature is not a place to visit, but our original, forever home. Trees, rocks, creeks - all waiting for our return, all allies on our quest for a good, meaningful life.
And I built Basecamp as my most accessible, sustainable, surprising way to live that philosophy.
At Basecamp, you don’t need to be or do better.
You definitely don’t need to do more.
If all you ever do is spend five minutes with one creative mini-quest, you’ll still be practicing something radical: remembering that your joy matters too.
All that Basecamp offers is a place and methods for being and feeling more YOU.
All it asks is for you to be messy, wild, and curious.
And to stop walking past yourself.
You’ve been looking for a new kind of aliveness.
And maybe you’ve been waiting for your time to come, your joy to matter, but somehow life keeps getting in the way.
So here’s a door, open. If this feels like the right step for you, I’d love to meet that wild, weird, silly version of you at Midlife Wilderness Basecamp this summer.
Will you give it a try? Or will you spend the summer prioritizing other people’s joy again?
The first Zine goes out on June 21.