Wild Lessons

What wolves can teach us about reconnecting with our inner wisdom.

For nearly four years, psychologist Patricia Pasquín lived in the high desert of New Mexico caring for wolves in a wildlife sanctuary. Living alongside these animals — alert, wounded, relational and deeply attuned to their environment — reshaped her understanding of fear, trust, intuition and emotional bonds. This book grows out of those years.

Each chapter begins with a real encounter with a wolf and unfolds into a psychological reflection on human experience: how trust is built and broken, how intuition operates as a form of embodied intelligence, how grief asks to be witnessed rather than resolved, and how relationships are both the source of our deepest wounds and our most powerful healing.

In one chapter, Pasquín recalls Luna, a wolf injured by human violence who, after years of cautious distance, allowed herself to be touched for the first time. That quiet moment becomes a meditation on trust as a process — fragile, relational and never forced. In another, she reflects on Naz, an aging wolf nearing the end of his life, whose silent gaze confronted her with the cost of ignoring inner knowing. From that unresolved pain emerges a reflection on intuition as a form of wisdom that, when unattended, draws us away from what is essential.

Wild Lessons does not idealize nature nor romanticize animals. Instead, it offers a sober, intimate exploration of what sustained attention to another species can reveal about the way we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world we inhabit.

For readers of The Wisdom of Wolves. A book that invites necessary questions rather than easy answers, and proposes reconnection not as a technique, but as a practice shaped through presence, vulnerability and context.