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Zoë Wild, CPCC, is a professionally trained and certified life, business & spiritual coach, workshop leader, public speaker, author and founder/executive director of One Light Global, an international nonprofit humanitarian organization.
Her education and employment span a wide array of interests and fields including selling a screenplay, working in Hollywood as a manager of development, online marketing and advertising, writing and editing, environmental activism, hospice care and business development.
Zoë is also an ordained Sufi Interfaith Minister, has spent extended time as a Buddhist nun in Burma, and is trained as a Chaplain. She is a beloved community leader known for her grounded, no BS approach, humor and unshakeable love. It is her great privilege to use the wisdom she has gained from these traditions, combined with her life & business expertise, to guide people on their unique paths to inner peace, strength, love, happiness, success and fulfillment.
Zoë dreams of a world where every single person knows their essential, liberated nature – where the truth of each unique soul is fully and freely expressed, so we can play and explore life in radiant compassion and electric freedom, together.
Her book The Little Book of Being is scheduled to be complete by fall 2017.
You are so much more than you know. Liberate yourself at www.zoewild.com
Her education and employment span a wide array of interests and fields including selling a screenplay, working in Hollywood as a manager of development, online marketing and advertising, writing and editing, environmental activism, hospice care and business development.
Zoë is also an ordained Sufi Interfaith Minister, has spent extended time as a Buddhist nun in Burma, and is trained as a Chaplain. She is a beloved community leader known for her grounded, no BS approach, humor and unshakeable love. It is her great privilege to use the wisdom she has gained from these traditions, combined with her life & business expertise, to guide people on their unique paths to inner peace, strength, love, happiness, success and fulfillment.
Zoë dreams of a world where every single person knows their essential, liberated nature – where the truth of each unique soul is fully and freely expressed, so we can play and explore life in radiant compassion and electric freedom, together.
Her book The Little Book of Being is scheduled to be complete by fall 2017.
You are so much more than you know. Liberate yourself at www.zoewild.com
The story of how meditation saved my life.
Almost a decade ago, while living in LA and working in the film industry, I experienced a complete emotional and physical breakdown. I couldn’t stop crying, couldn’t get out of bed, couldn’t sleep for weeks on end, couldn’t talk without pain. I couldn’t work, see my friends, or leave my tiny studio apartment. I was overwhelmed and exhausted from a lifetime of knowing there was more but not knowing what, seeking for true meaning, years of simultaneous high and low self worth, intermittent depression, anger and pain about the state of the world and the things I had witnessed and been through. I felt as if I had tried everything to quell the longing in my soul and overcome the trauma and nothing was working.
I gave myself a year to live. Therapy, career changes, worldly success, relationships, love, travel, self-help books, making myself beautiful-- all had done nothing to sustainably shift the misalignment I felt inside. I told myself I would try everything that I had always wanted to try and never made the time for and if, at the end of that year, nothing had changed, I would end my life.
One of the things on that list was meditation.
A friend of mine had grown up on an Ashram in Northern California so he hated meditation and yoga – and happily discarded a book on “Meditation” from his childhood into my desperate arms.
Every day, I would crawl to the end of my bed to sit and follow the book’s instructions. Some days I was so filled with pain and fear I would actually crawl UNDER my bed. I took to the practice like a fish to water. The techniques for using my own direct experience to explore the true nature of being alive were the first thing that ever really made sense to me. Finally, someone was starting at the foundation – asking me to look for myself, not telling me what to see.
Very quickly, I realized that I was not my mind, my emotions, or my body. What I am revealed itself to be something much more profound, and yet so ordinary, something that had always been there and yet I had missed it in the hustle of daily life. It was the source of the longing I had felt, it was calling me back from the insanity of the world, reminding me of what we are and how to live. By returning to it, the door I had been looking for in healing and in my life was opened.
I knew I had to do this full time. I made some inquiries, sold everything I could, and moved to Burma-- a country I didn’t even know existed beforehand.
I can still see the bright sun on the stone walls, the tall tropical trees out of an exotic adventure novel, and feel the impact on my heart of the smiling faces and openness of the villagers, full of a simple joy I had never before experienced.
I went to that monastery not to become enlightened, discover God, or learn supernatural abilities. I was there to find a reason to live. I wanted to know if there was any rhyme or reason in this universe, lasting peace to be found in my heart, a way out of the overwhelm, pressure, intrusive thoughts, painful memories, self-criticism, bad habits, relationship patterns and hopelessness about the state of the world that were so pervasive in my experience.
What I got was so much more. Within three months, everywhere I looked I saw only the miracle that is life. I had no desire to be anywhere other than this moment, open and curious about what was. Through practice, the layers of limiting perspective I had accumulated over the years dissolved, allowing a fresh experience of even the most minute details of life to emerge. Everything appeared the same on the outside, and yet I experienced it completely differently internally. The transformation from separation to unity was so complete that I didn’t even consciously notice it had happened for some time.
I discovered the true nature of my being – beyond my thoughts, emotions, body and perceptions. I discovered the way the mind works, and how to use it as a magnificent tool, rather than have it run me. I discovered the nature of emotions – how to experience them and allow that energy to transmute and express in helpful rather than destructive ways. I discovered a profound connection with all of creation. I discovered gifts and abilities I could share with the world. I discovered a wealth of joy and creativity I had no idea lived within me. I discovered an immovable place of peace in the center of my being. I discovered the beauty of the world. I discovered freedom from my inner state being tied to outer circumstance or idea of identity. I discovered the true meaning of Love. I healed my relationships with my family. I became so kind to myself. I was healed. I was whole - in all my perfection and imperfection.
Sharing these teachings is the way I say thank you to the universe for all the benefits I have received.
If I can do it, you can do it.
I gave myself a year to live. Therapy, career changes, worldly success, relationships, love, travel, self-help books, making myself beautiful-- all had done nothing to sustainably shift the misalignment I felt inside. I told myself I would try everything that I had always wanted to try and never made the time for and if, at the end of that year, nothing had changed, I would end my life.
One of the things on that list was meditation.
A friend of mine had grown up on an Ashram in Northern California so he hated meditation and yoga – and happily discarded a book on “Meditation” from his childhood into my desperate arms.
Every day, I would crawl to the end of my bed to sit and follow the book’s instructions. Some days I was so filled with pain and fear I would actually crawl UNDER my bed. I took to the practice like a fish to water. The techniques for using my own direct experience to explore the true nature of being alive were the first thing that ever really made sense to me. Finally, someone was starting at the foundation – asking me to look for myself, not telling me what to see.
Very quickly, I realized that I was not my mind, my emotions, or my body. What I am revealed itself to be something much more profound, and yet so ordinary, something that had always been there and yet I had missed it in the hustle of daily life. It was the source of the longing I had felt, it was calling me back from the insanity of the world, reminding me of what we are and how to live. By returning to it, the door I had been looking for in healing and in my life was opened.
I knew I had to do this full time. I made some inquiries, sold everything I could, and moved to Burma-- a country I didn’t even know existed beforehand.
I can still see the bright sun on the stone walls, the tall tropical trees out of an exotic adventure novel, and feel the impact on my heart of the smiling faces and openness of the villagers, full of a simple joy I had never before experienced.
I went to that monastery not to become enlightened, discover God, or learn supernatural abilities. I was there to find a reason to live. I wanted to know if there was any rhyme or reason in this universe, lasting peace to be found in my heart, a way out of the overwhelm, pressure, intrusive thoughts, painful memories, self-criticism, bad habits, relationship patterns and hopelessness about the state of the world that were so pervasive in my experience.
What I got was so much more. Within three months, everywhere I looked I saw only the miracle that is life. I had no desire to be anywhere other than this moment, open and curious about what was. Through practice, the layers of limiting perspective I had accumulated over the years dissolved, allowing a fresh experience of even the most minute details of life to emerge. Everything appeared the same on the outside, and yet I experienced it completely differently internally. The transformation from separation to unity was so complete that I didn’t even consciously notice it had happened for some time.
I discovered the true nature of my being – beyond my thoughts, emotions, body and perceptions. I discovered the way the mind works, and how to use it as a magnificent tool, rather than have it run me. I discovered the nature of emotions – how to experience them and allow that energy to transmute and express in helpful rather than destructive ways. I discovered a profound connection with all of creation. I discovered gifts and abilities I could share with the world. I discovered a wealth of joy and creativity I had no idea lived within me. I discovered an immovable place of peace in the center of my being. I discovered the beauty of the world. I discovered freedom from my inner state being tied to outer circumstance or idea of identity. I discovered the true meaning of Love. I healed my relationships with my family. I became so kind to myself. I was healed. I was whole - in all my perfection and imperfection.
Sharing these teachings is the way I say thank you to the universe for all the benefits I have received.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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