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Thrive! performed and written by Daniel Wagner & Paulina Bolek has become the theme song of New Eden, a retreat center for personal transformation in North Holland.

I'd love to share with you this video even though I run a lot of insecurity about it because it is far from "perfect". But... this is exactly the reason why I am sharing it - it is a lived experience and evidence of everything that Wild Mama is about.. Here's a bit of a backstory. I'm working on a secret project at the moment and I needed a theme song for it, so I'd been playing around with some chords. So it happened that Kenneth Berentzen visited us at New Eden - Center for Personal Transformation, and so I got the extra motivation to maybe finish the song and collaborate with him on a video. And so this song was written in a couple of hours on a meadow, guitar strapped over my shoulder, following my son as he was having his morning playtime. What you see in the video is maybe 3rd or 4th time I play the full song in one take. Does it need work? Yes. And that will come. But I love the rawness of it and I'm super grateful to Ken for awesome footage. "Wild Mama Way" is a way of "good enough", it's a way of doing things that light me up whenever and however I can, in the little spaces in between "daily life" and taking care of my son. It's a way that actively breaks my addiction to perfectionism and it challenges my fear of showing myself exactly as I am in the moment. It's a way of courage, vulnerability, desire and truth. It's a way of the Heart. It's a way of Love. Visit: wildmama.nl

With heartfelt wishes of love, joy and peace to all of you! Music & Text: Paulina Bolek

Well, it doesn't get any more authentic than this: after yoga, no makeup, bed-hair, and my original song recorded in a spur of the moment with a phone ;) Couple of years ago I had a good writing streak but I was keeping the songs private thinking that they soon would have been recorded on my debut album that I thought I was then recording. In the end the project fell through but the songs stayed. Maybe it's time to bring them back to life and share them with you ;) Music & Text: Paulina Bolek

Studio demo of an original song recorded at the beginning of 2012. Music & Text: Paulina Bolek

Studio demo of an original song recorded at the beginning of 2012. Music & Text: Paulina Bolek

Studio demo of an original song recorded at the beginning of 2012. Music & Text: Paulina Bolek