Embracing Winter Part 2: Find the Cozy!
So, you’re all bundled up and ready to get outside (and if you’re not, check out Part 1). But it’s cold. How about I just stay inside? I fully agree that being indoors on a cold day feels good. There is good reason many creatures hibernate during the winter,...
Embracing Winter, Part 1: Logistics
It’s officially cold. And dark. (Although a little less dark every day, it is important to note.) Dark and cold can wear on our bodies and emotions at the best of times—which the winter of 2020/21 is most definitely not. I see increased fatigue,...
Touching Nature
I so miss the days of hugs, playful shoves, sitting closely together…the experience of touch is one of the most important and innate ways we connect and respond to each other. Physical distancing requires us to lose so much of this source of comfort. Consider...
Nature Walk for Connecting and Easing Stress
The pains of a pandemic spring and the new possibilities emerging Winter was long and spring was rainy. The stress connected to Covid-19 made those gloomy spring days nearly intolerable. Normally a rainy April is a time to enjoy the coziness of those last days of...
Nature Collage
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...
About Me
I’ve worked in both the social service and environmental education fields, and have learned that combining the two is a deeply powerful way to support people.