Love wyldly, live wyldly
I’m Emily Forbes, wylde woman, mother of two, published author, certified coach, and founder of Wylde Wellbeing.
If you are living with chronic stress, burnout, fatigue or managing chronic illness, I can help you from my lived experience, as well as expert training, research and further education. I’ve been on a personal journey through chronic illness, surgeries, moving towards wellness and finding ways to improve my wellbeing over the last few years, and I want to share what I’ve learned with you.
I’ve really struggled (alone for much of it), and wished I had somewhere to go to for tailored support, someone who looked at me as a whole person with a body, mind, soul, and emotions, rather than carving me up into little bits or tick boxes or even medical pathways or clinical departments – something which you may be familiar with! I’ve realised that many of the answers and solutions are inside me and you, they just need teasing out, and that’s why I’ve created a Whole-Wellness ™ model using my own lessons from adversity to support you to find possibility and your own Wylde Wellbeing.
I coach and support women by taking a full circle, 360 degree look at all of you, in a complete integrative and holistic way, to help you along your journey and to make choices to enhance your life, wherever you’re at, whatever your capacity and how ever you want.
The term ‘wylde’ is old English for wild and untamed (it was also used to mean uncivilised or undisciplined!!). I like the thought that I’m a wylde woman: free and untethered to what is expected of me by others, but to what I choose for myself, and I know that I can do anything that I put my mind to.
I have some lovely memories of picking wild blackberries and elderflower in hedgerows when I was a child, making jam, and helping to bottle home produced honey, as well as getting tipsy from home brewed wine as a teenager! I especially loved ‘Brambly hedge’ and ‘Flower Fairies’ (oh the simplicity of innocence and youth!) and I still feel joy from all things natural – the sun on my face, and anything botanical and floral, so I just connected with this name, and hope you can too.
I’ve written a book all about my experiences which is about moving from illness to wellness and choosing to live well with a long term condition whilst managing symptoms of illness and disability. I can empathise with others as I’ve faced lots of loss, grief, and trauma in my own life; I’ve experienced birth and death, marriage and divorce, illness and wellness, debt and security, love and loss, and everything in between! The ebb and flow of life is a constant and part of this is about accepting that the lowest lows can actually help you to experience the highest highs; after all, you need both sun and rain to make a rainbow, and can’t have shadow without light.
One of the biggest impacting traumas for me has been dealing with a chronic condition with my oesophagus, ensuing surgery, procedures and illness, and ill health, crucially not being able to eat solid food for nearly four years, and managing the wylde and wonderful symptoms – something that I can’t control or change, but that I’m choosing to live as well as I can with.
My book ‘Too Hard to Swallow’ was released in April 2025 and is about the physical and psychological impact of suffering and how I’ve coped, what I’ve learned along the way and how I can help others. You can buy Too Hard to Swallow here: https://www.balboapress.com/en-gb/bookstore/bookdetails/863719-too-hard-to-swallow
My mission is to alchemise adversity into possibility and positivity to help others create their authentic self signature; to focus on wellness, not illness; to create a world where physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellness are in balance and viewed holistically; to look inside-out and outside-in; to coach from experience; to live life without limits despite disability, living and loving wyldly always.
