Integral to the healing of oneself is the reconnection to what we’ve lost — and for many of us, that includes our inherent connection to the natural world.
As a nature-based coach and therapist, my work has taken many forms, from wilderness therapist to guiding clients on “sacred wanders” via a phone session.
For thousands of years, healing has taken place in sacred spaces outdoors — only in the past thousand or so years have we relegated the process of transformation to within four (often boring, white) walls.
Whether we’re city dwellers or suburbanites, making “home” in the thriving metropolis of New York or the suburbs of Atlanta, it’s a biological truism that the human nervous system simply isn’t adapted to city living.
Whether we’re consciously aware of it or not, the constant onslaught of noise, sights, smells — the cacophany of manmade chaos — creates inherent disregulation in the nervous system.
Nature-based therapy and coaching provides us with the opportunity — whether in an urban park or unadulterated wilderness — to ground, rejuvenate, and renew our inherent inner connection to the natural world, which is our birthright.
As we become reconnected to the Nature outside, we paradoxically reawaken our connection to the “nature” within, cultivating our primordial and intuitive connection to our inner guidance and truth.
