The Living Wilder Foundation was born from lived experience.
When our founder, Tristan Forester, became a mother through adoption, she stepped into a journey filled with deep love and unexpected challenges. Her son, Wilder Jace, would later be diagnosed as neurodivergent—an awakening that reshaped her understanding of parenting, mental health, and what support really looks like.
Like many parents raising neurodivergent children, Tristan found herself overwhelmed, isolated, and searching for resources that truly met her needs—not just for her child, but for herself. What she discovered was a gap in support: a lack of spaces where caregivers could feel seen, held, and understood without judgment.
So, she created what she couldn’t find.
The Living Wilder Foundation exists to support the parents behind the diagnosis—the ones advocating, learning, stretching, and often forgetting to care for themselves along the way. We are here to walk alongside families, offering community, practical tools, and emotional nourishment so they don’t have to walk this path alone.
This is more than a foundation. It’s a movement rooted in love, lived truth, and the belief that when we nurture the caregiver, we strengthen the entire family.