How women lost body time (and the remarkable way to reclaim it) - Christie Green

Lian and hunter and landscape architect, Christie Green, explore what sixteen years of hunting has taught Christie about body time, how women's bodies carry a different relationship to time and rhythm than ‘clock culture’ allows, and what gets restored when a woman stops measuring herself by external standards. Christie Green is the author of MOONIGHT ELK: One Woman’s Hunt for Food and Freedom published by The University of New Mexico Press (UNMP) in 2024. Her forthcoming book, SALMON DREAMING: Coming Home to Alaska will be released by UNMP in 2026 and her third, THE NEW MERIDIAN: Undamming the West will be released by UNMP in 2028. Christie Green resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Kenai, Alaska. Ms. Green’s platform as a land & water steward, landscape architect, local food activist, educator and hunter attracts passionate audiences. She represents a fundamental missing bridge between polarized audiences and cultural extremes. For Christies full bio see the show notes https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/podcast/552. In this episode, Lian and Christie explore what Christie calls body time, the way the animals she hunts have gradually rewired her relationship to rhythm, to her own flesh, and to what she actually trusts as real. Over sixteen years of hunting across New Mexico and Alaska, Christie has found herself orienting less and less by the clock and more by tide, moon, darkness, and what her body is asking for. The conversation moves through what that shift has cost, what it has returned, and the specific way the bodies of animals, elk, deer, turkey, salmon, have taught her things about her own body that nothing else reached. From there they look at what modern women have lost and what Christie has glimpsed on the other side of that loss, how the same culture that packages meat in sterile plastic also asks women to manage, minimise, and tidy themselves, and what becomes possible when a woman stops agreeing to that, even in small ways, a particular fabric against her skin, dreamy silk under work clothes, a candle at the end of the day. Listen if you've ever looked at the clock to decide whether you're hungry, or realised you've been running on someone else's rhythm for so long you're not sure you know what your own feels like. We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces. What you’ll learn from this episode: Why animal time and body time are the same thing, and what it takes for a woman to begin living there rather than just visiting How reaching inside the body of an elk changed Christie's relationship to her own body more than anything culture had offered her What happens when a woman stops treating clock time as the most real thing, and what she finds underneath it instead Resources and stuff that we spoke about: Visit Christie’s website https://www.christiegreen.net/. Christie’s book Moonlight Elk: One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom https://www.amazon.com/Moonlight-Elk-Womans-Hunt-Freedom/dp/0826368913/ Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth. Wild Sovereign Soul Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls : https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1694264587546957 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms, and video too on YouTube. Subscribe to get each new episode as soon as it’s released