Creative on the rise!
The Amazing Rebecca!
Rebecca Wildblood is an exceptionally talented and gifted poet, with remarkable passion and determination to make impactful strides in the world through her craft and this is very obvious in her zeal and consistency in the world of Literature, specifically poetry which speaks for itself. Her relatable and brilliant style of writing is exactly why Rebecca is now here on the most prestigious writers platform in the world.
Rebecca is also an official member of the Collab Tour and an Amazon Bestselling Author.
Today, we take a foray into the world of Rebecca Wildblood with excerpts below detailing her amazing story.
My happiest childhood memories were spent wandering alone in the woods. Beneath towering pines, surrounded by birdsong and the quiet presence of animals, I felt understood in a way I rarely did elsewhere. Long before I wrote a poem, nature was already my first language.
I have always been deeply intuitive and sensitive, experiencing the world intensely and noticing emotions others often overlooked. Raised by a single mother, I learned early to navigate life independently. While I longed for belonging, I found it by the ocean, beneath the forest canopy, and among animals. Looking back, I realize nature quietly became my first teacher.
As a teenager, I started writing poetry and lyrics to express myself. Around that time, I discovered Rumi. His reflections on beauty, the Beloved, and our relationship with God resonated deeply. He gave words to what I had always sensed: beneath the surface of daily life is a quieter, sacred reality.
Life took me in many directions, but poetry remained. For over thirty years, I quietly filled journals whenever inspiration came.
Curiosity about the mind led me to study psychology. I wanted to know why I felt life so deeply and what shaped our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. I was drawn to Positive Psychology, which explores how people flourish. It shifted my focus from suffering to cultivating resilience, gratitude, purpose, and well-being. Life, however, became my greatest teacher.
One of my greatest surprises was joining the military. For someone so sensitive, it seemed unlikely. Yet after a childhood of uncertainty, I found comfort in the structure and stability military life offered. There was purpose in serving something greater than myself. The military taught me discipline, resilience, responsibility, and leadership. It challenged me to lead under pressure, trust others, and discover hidden strengths. Looking back, I see both parts of me were always present: the sensitive child who found peace in nature and the soldier who found strength in structure. Each prepared me for the next chapter.
When my military service ended, I entered a quiet season of healing. I spent nearly three years turning inward, searching for steadiness and a renewed sense of wonder. Then I made one decision that gently opened the door to restoration:
I learned to scuba dive.
Descending beneath the surface, the noise of the world dissolved. Among coral reefs and schools of fish, I rediscovered a peace that had been waiting for me.
I was returning to life with a fuller heart.
The ocean became both my classroom and my healer.
Around that same time, I learned TM (Transcendental Meditation). I read it helped with PTSD. Through the simple repetition of a mantra, I discovered another kind of stillness within myself. The teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced me to the understanding that beneath the mind's activity lies a deeper awareness that is naturally peaceful, creative, and whole.
Scuba diving invited me into the beauty of the outer world. Meditation invited me into the landscape of my inner world. Together, they awakened a curiosity that would shape the rest of my life.
My love for the ocean led me to pursue a master’s in Sustainability. At first, I wanted to understand how we could protect coral reefs and preserve Earth’s extraordinary diversity.
As my studies deepened, so did my questions.
How do we sustain life?
How do we sustain happiness?
The answers gradually revealed themselves. Human flourishing and environmental flourishing are inseparable. Nature is not something outside of us; we are an expression of it.
The forests and oceans that brought me peace as a child were quietly teaching lessons that science would later help me understand.
Looking back, I realized my happiest memories had never been about achievement.
They were moments spent in nature, feeling connected to something much larger than myself.
The peace I had been searching for was already within reach.
It was something I was learning to remember.
Then life invited me into another season of transformation.
My service dog, my faithful companion who had walked beside me through some of my most tender years, passed away. Her love had shaped me deeply, and her absence opened a sacred space for reflection. Grief has a way of revealing what matters most, and once again I found myself asking a simple question:
What is life inviting me to become?
What qualities do I want to grow within myself?
I wanted to cultivate the virtues I most admired.
Around that time, I began studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which deepened my understanding that language shapes identity. I became increasingly aware of the words we speak to ourselves, especially two simple words:
"I am” Every word that follows becomes a declaration of identity.
From that reflection, I began writing affirmations centered on the virtues I wanted to embody. Over time, those affirmations naturally evolved into poems.
The first poem was I AM Courage. Instead of writing about courage from a distance, I asked myself: if Courage could speak, what would it say? From there came I AM Patience, then I AM Wisdom. Each poem became a conversation with a virtue rather than a description of it.
Eventually, my curiosity expanded beyond the human experience. I began to wonder: what would the ocean say if it could speak? The poems felt less like something I was creating and more like something I was remembering.
Looking back, I realize I AM became more than a book. It became the natural expression of a lifetime spent listening to nature, to the human spirit, and to God. Every chapter of my life found its way into those pages.
Perhaps the greatest surprise was that the poems transformed me as much as I hope they transform others.
Today, poetry has become more than something I write. It is a way of seeing. It reminds me to slow down, notice the sacred within ordinary moments, and remember that we are deeply connected to ourselves, to one another, to the living Earth, and to God.
Sometimes I think about that little girl wandering beneath the trees, listening to birdsong and watching sunlight dance through the leaves. She believed she was simply spending time in the forest. In truth, she was learning, listening, and remembering.
She could have joyfully discovered that those quiet walks would one day become poems and that those poems would become invitations for others to rediscover the quiet wisdom already living within them.
If my work leaves a legacy, I hope it encourages people to pause, listen, and remember: to remember their relationship with themselves, with nature, and with God; and to discover that the qualities they seek: courage, gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, joy, and love have always been waiting within them.
I have come to believe that we flourish when we uncover the light, wisdom, and love that have always been within us.
Every act of compassion becomes a poem.
Every moment of forgiveness becomes a poem.
Every choice rooted in love becomes a poem.
And perhaps the most beautiful poem we will ever write
is the life we choose to live...
awake, grateful, and open to the wonder all around us.
Flora Cybil
(Editor at large)
