REWILDING
by Yolanda McAdam
Reclaiming Your Magic, Sovereignty, and Wild Self After Forty
Part memoir and part guide, REWILDING weaves personal story with mythology, astrology, ritual and reflection to illuminate the passage back to your wild, authentic self.
REWILDING is for the woman who senses that midlife and menopause aren't simply endings, but invitations to retrieve the parts of herself she set aside to survive, succeed, and belong.
Out NOW on Kindle and paperback.
REWILDING Launch Giveaway
Win a Breaking the Pattern reading with Yolanda
To celebrate the arrival of REWILDING: Reclaiming Your Magic, Sovereignty, and Wild Self After Forty, I'm giving one reader a private Breaking the Pattern reading, valued at CAD $200.
REWILDING is about the self we lock away, and the inherited stories that keep the key hidden. In this 60-minute reading, we'll use your birth chart to trace the unconscious patterns, family dynamics and soul-level themes shaping your life, so you can see where the old pattern lives and how to begin living beyond it.
We'll draw the winner live at the REWILDING launch party in Vancouver, BC on 8 November 2026.
How to enter
Option 1: Buy the book
Buy REWILDING on Amazon (Kindle or paperback) between 17 October and 7 November 2026.
Email your receipt or a screenshot of your order confirmation with the subject line REWILDING Giveaway. Email me.
Include your full name and the country you live in.
Option 2: Enter for free (no purchase necessary)
Email me with the subject line REWILDING Giveaway.
Include your full name, the country you live in, and a few sentences (up to 50 words) on what rewilding means to you.
Entries close 7 November 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
A memoir and guide for women at midlife
The roles that once gave her a sense of belonging begin to feel restrictive. The qualities that made her dependable, acceptable or easy to love begin to cost more than she can continue paying. She may look at the life she has built and quietly wonder where, along the way, she disappeared from it.
REWILDING is for the woman standing at that threshold; for the woman who senses that midlife and menopause are not simply endings, but invitations to retrieve the parts of herself she set aside in order to survive, succeed and belong.
This Book Is for the Woman Who…
Feels that the life she created no longer reflects who she is becoming
Has spent years being responsible for everyone else and can no longer hear her own voice
Is grieving a version of herself she abandoned in order to be chosen, accepted or easy to love
Senses that menopause or midlife is an initiation rather than a decline
Is questioning inherited expectations about womanhood, family, success and belonging
Longs to recover her creativity, intuition, sensuality, sovereignty or spiritual life
Knows that something within her is ready to return even if she cannot yet name it
You do not need to blow up your life to reclaim it.
But you may need to stop abandoning yourself inside it.
A Return to Your Wild, Authentic Self
Rewilding is the gradual restoration of what became constrained, silenced or domesticated within you.
It is remembering what you knew before the world told you who to be.
It is learning to recognize the difference between the life that earns approval and the life that carries your own unmistakable frequency.
It is allowing the woman beneath the adaptations to speak again.
This book will not give you another ideal self to perform. It will help you listen for the self waiting beneath the roles, obligations, and inherited expectations.
Giveaway rules
1. Sponsor. The REWILDING Launch Giveaway (the "Giveaway") is run by Yolanda McAdam, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (the "Sponsor"). This Giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Amazon or AOS Publishing.
2. Eligibility. Open to anyone aged 18 or older (or the age of majority where they live) who lives where this Giveaway is legal. Residents of Quebec are not eligible. The Sponsor's immediate family and household members are not eligible. Void where prohibited.
3. Entry period. The Giveaway opens on 17 October 2026 at 9:56 am Pacific Time and closes on 7 November 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. Entries received after the close will not be counted.
4. How to enter. Enter by email using either method under "How to enter" above. A purchase is not required, and buying the book does not improve your chances of winning. Limit one entry per person, whichever method you use. Incomplete or duplicate entries may be disqualified.
5. Reviews are not part of entry. You do not need to review the book to enter, and reviews have no effect on the draw.
6. Prize. One (1) prize: a 60-minute Breaking the Pattern birth chart reading with Yolanda McAdam by video call, with a recording sent afterwards. Approximate retail value: CAD $200. The winner must provide their date, time and place of birth. The reading must be booked and held by 31 May 2027. The prize cannot be exchanged for cash, transferred or substituted, except that the Sponsor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if necessary.
7. Draw. One winner will be chosen in a random draw from all eligible entries on 8 November 2026 at the REWILDING launch party. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
8. Winner notification. The winner will be contacted by email within 3 days of the draw and must reply within 7 days to claim the prize. Before being confirmed, the winner must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question without assistance. If the winner does not reply in time, cannot be reached, or does not answer the question correctly, the prize will be forfeited and a new winner drawn.
9. Privacy. Entry details are used only to run this Giveaway and contact the winner. You will not be added to any mailing list unless you choose to subscribe separately. Receipts and entry emails will be deleted after the prize is awarded.
10. Publicity. With the winner's permission, the Sponsor may share their first name and country when announcing the result.
11. General. By entering, you agree to these rules. The Sponsor is not responsible for entries that are lost, delayed or misdirected. The Sponsor may cancel or change the Giveaway if it cannot run as planned. These rules are governed by the laws of British Columbia and of Canada.
Questions? Email me.