Words in the Wilderness

For the scared souls, the never-dared souls, the lost and double-crossed souls — the ones sitting in the wilderness of change, wondering if anyone else feels this way.

Words in the Wilderness is a podcast for people in the messy middle of becoming who they really are.
Hosted by therapist and poet Jacky Power, this is the space where we stop performing and start witnessing. 
Where your feelings aren't problems to solve - they're wisdom to decode.
Through poetry, honest storytelling and real conversations, Jacky accompanies the changemakers and cycle-breakers who are walking away from what doesn't serve them, toward something that finally feels true.
Each episode uses original poetry as a starting point  -  to bypass our defences and reach the feelings we haven't found words for yet.

This is not a podcast about having it figured out. It's a companion for the brave work of figuring it out - one poem at a time.

This podcast is for you if:
• You've made a big life change and feel more lost than you expected
• You're exhausted from performing 'fine' while something truer waits underneath
• You've never thought poetry was 'for you' - but you're open to being surprised
• You want to feel less alone in the wilderness of becoming

"Please receive my words as gifts. Each poem a billet-doux, each line a delicate heart string to see the tough times through. All I'm ever trying to say — all I want to do — is encourage you to be who you are. To be the you-est you."

Creators and Guests

Host
Jacky Power

What is Words in the Wilderness?

The Words in the Wilderness podcast is for those who have the conviction to make changes in their life as they drag their feet through the messy middle, crying into the void "it ends with me."

Led by Jacky Power - The Therapeutic Poet - these are conversations that look underneath the label, the diagnosis, the tidy explanation, at what's actually going on.

If you've made a decision to change your life and now you're in that wobbly, lonely bit where nobody quite gets what you're going through, I made this for you. Because I've been there. Many times.

Each episode starts with one of my own poems, using therapeutic poetry to set the scene. Sometimes it's just me, unpacking human tricky things. Sometimes it's a guest - a therapist, a coach, someone whose lived experience has taught them something worth passing on.

We talk about leaving what doesn't fit anymore, about breaking the patterns you inherited and don't want to leave as your legacy, about all your human tricky things that you've maybe been taught to hide.

I'm Jacky Power and I'm on a mission to rehumanise, one poem at a time. Reminding you that you have permission to feel and use those feelings as data to decode, not symptoms to squash.

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To the scared souls, the never dared souls, the lost souls, the double-crossed souls, the betrayed souls, the dismayed souls, the broken souls, the unspoken souls. You can be the brave souls, be everything you gave souls, be adventurous souls and generous souls. Be scrape the mistakes off your soul souls. It's never too late to start!

Hello, I'm Jacky Power, host of Words in the Wilderness. Now, you might have found your way here from my previous podcast, The Therapeutic Poet. And if you have, welcome back and thank you for following me into this next chapter. But I want to shift the focus of the podcast slightly to help you if you are in the phase of transformation and change in a way that lives more aligned with your truth. that can be a scary business. You may be sitting in the emotional loneliness of it all.

Writing has been my refuge and something that I want to share with you. When I was a child, I had a diary. And in that diary, I made up a special code to help protect my truth. Poetry has become my grown-up code, but...

Rather than using it to hide from our truth, we can use it to connect with it, whilst protecting ourselves from feeling too exposed. The blank page doesn't judge, it just mirrors back to you what your reality is like for you. This is Words in the Wilderness, where we use poetry to witness the messy middle of becoming who we really are.

Are you exhausted from dialing up the part of you that feels acceptable while hiding the parts that feel true. Through poetry and honest storytelling, this is where we stop performing and start witnessing, where your feelings aren't problems to solve, but wisdom to decode.

So, please receive my words as gifts. Each poem, a billet due. Each line, a delicate heartstring to see the tough times. Please feel the feelings of these words as small squeezes of your hand, a gesture of solidarity, not too fancy, nor too grand. But all I'm ever trying to say, all I want to do is encourage you to be who you are, to be the you-est you.