Wild to Wise: An Indigenous Woman’s Guide to Wild Grace, Soft Strength & Your Sacred Self

Published: October 1, 2026, V13 Press
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-0692381-3-9, CAD 24.99 / USD 19.99
Ebook: ISBN 978-1-0692381-2-2, CAD 12.99 / USD 9.99

Wild to Wise is a memoir and a guide, written by a Cree woman from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, for Indigenous women ready to lead their own lives.

Geraldine Carriere was taken from her family as a child and placed in foster care. She grew up with racism, with loss, and with the long work of finding her way back to her culture. She became a singer, a speaker, a coach and an entrepreneur. This book is what she learned on the way, told plainly and offered to every woman walking a similar road.

Ten chapters move from pride and presence through influence, image, initiative, resourcefulness, productivity and entrepreneurship, to women’s bodies and legacy. Each one pairs a piece of Geraldine’s story with teachings on identity, leadership and self-development. Cree spirituality, the Medicine Wheel and matriarchal teachings sit alongside contemporary psychology and business thinking. Reflection questions, poems and a guided meditation give the reader somewhere to put what she has read.

This is not a book about surviving. It is a book about what comes after: reclaiming your voice, your body, your money, your time and your place at the table, and then holding the door for the women behind you.

For readers of Indigenous memoir, for women building a business or a life on their own terms, and for anyone who has been told they are too much or not enough, Wild to Wise is a map from where you were to who you are becoming.