by Corie Washow | May 7, 2020 | Nature Based Healing Practices, Nature Connection Practices
To Learn from Animal Being by John O’Donohue, in “To Bless the Space Between us: A Book of Blessings”. Nearer to the earth’s heart, Deeper within its silence: Animals know this world In a way we never will. We who are ever Distanced and...
by Corie Washow | May 5, 2020 | Nature Based Healing Practices, Pandemic Coping
Consider an activity that deepens both your nature connection and your understanding of your current internal experience. Creating a nature collage can help sort out some of the complicated feelings and layers we are all currently experiencing, and connect you more...
by Corie Washow | Apr 27, 2020 | Nature Based Healing Practices, Pandemic Coping
Let me say right up front–if lists of things you could do to feel better/differently in this crazy time are driving you nuts because it all sounds good but you just don’t have the energy and you can’t stop reading the lists even though they make you...
by Corie Washow | Apr 24, 2020 | Elemental Counseling, Nature Based Healing Practices
I have a friend who lives a few states away. When the impacts of the pandemic started being felt strongly in the US, we decided to text each other an image of beauty each day. Because of who we are and what we love, it is almost always beauty in the more than human...
by Corie Washow | Apr 24, 2020 | Elemental Counseling, Nature Based Healing Practices, Pandemic Coping
Why do I care about moving my body when I can’t go anywhere anyway?!? It is so tempting, when we’re overwhelmed, tired, scared, worried, sad, and all the other things we all are these days, to just hunker down. Binge some mindless shows, scroll endlessly...
by Corie Washow | Feb 18, 2020 | Elemental Counseling, How Does Ecotherapy Work?, Nature Based Healing Practices
Last week, a friend sent me a lovely Mary Oliver poem: How I Go to the Woods Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or...