Yolanda McAdam wanted to be a writer when she was twelve years old. She also wanted to be an astrologer. She was told neither one would bring in money. She finished high school and followed the family tradition of working for a bank.
She spent half her life feeling misunderstood - surrounded by people who deemed her strange for her ability to read the sky, to talk to birds and plants, for the small ritual gifts she left in clearings in wooded places. So she locked her heart away and threw away the key. Years later, she went looking for it again, the way a selkie goes looking for the sealskin someone else hid from her. She found it. She put it back on. And she stopped method-acting someone else's life and started living her own.
REWILDING is Yolanda's account of that reckoning, and a guide for any woman living through her own. Each chapter is built around one of the five classical elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Spirit - and moves through Story, Wisdom, Practice, and Reflection: her own hard-won experience, more than twenty years of work as a certified astrologer and life coach, rituals to try, and questions to sit with.
This is a book for the woman who senses that menopause is not an ending but an initiation. For the one quietly grieving the version of herself she set aside to be chosen, or acceptable, or easy to love. For anyone standing at midlife's threshold, listening for what her own silence has been trying to tell her.
REWILDING does not ask you to become someone new. It asks you to come home to who you have always been.
For readers of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Glennon Doyle, and Sue Monk Kidd - and for every woman ready to find her way back to shore.
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Yolanda McAdam is a certified astrologer and life coach with more than twenty years of experience helping people navigate transformation and live more meaningful lives. Born in South Africa and raised in part by a Portuguese grandmother, a psychic medium, Yolanda grew up straddling two ways of understanding the world. This tension would eventually become the foundation of her work.
Her path to astrology and coaching was not direct. She spent years building a career across finance and marketing, work that took her across three continents and gave her a global vantage point long before she turned her attention inward. It was midlife itself, that brought her back to the practices she had set aside: astrology, ritual, and the kind of storytelling that holds both memoir and myth.
Yolanda now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she writes, teaches, and works with private clients through her practice. Her essays and astrology teaching appear across Substack, YouTube, and Instagram, where she explores midlife transformation at the intersection of depth astrology, Jungian psychology, mythology, and somatic awareness. REWILDING is her first book.
