Prescribing Nature to a Health Professional
As a Nature Doctor, Ecopsychotherapist, and Forest Therapy Guide certified by ANFT, I was contacted in April 2021 by a […]
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How Forest Therapy Is Growing More Connected Workplaces
Forest therapy and work seem like strange bedfellows at first, but sometimes the very best relationships are formed by the
Traveling with a Mission to Make Nature Accessible for All
On April 16th, I embarked on a year-long cross-country tour in a 24-foot shuttle bus conversion that I named the
The Healing Potential of Nature Memories
“It was only after decades of meditation practice and experiencing new ways of being in nature, such as vision questing,
Navigating Our Edges: Partnership Guiding in Silence
“Silence alone is comfortable. Silence in a group is uncomfortable…at first.” —Madison Traviss, from partnership walk with Deaf guide, Summer
Do You Speak Squirrel? – A Lesson on Untaming
“The limits of your language are the limits of your world.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein Aren’t squirrels cute? With their fluffy tails
Being a Guide of Guides: Dispatches from a Trainer’s Path
I trained to become a nature and forest therapy guide in the summer of 2017 with Cohort 15. Since then,
Top Ten Reasons Why to Go on a Forest Therapy Walk in Winter
I love winter! I love it so much that my partner and I even got married in the snow in
Letters to an Unknown Guide – Letter 3: The Hollow Bone
“I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would
Finding a Connection to Nature in Urban Areas
In 1998, I moved to Querétaro in central Mexico in order to be with my now-husband, Alejandro. Querétaro (pronounced “keh
Can Children Enjoy Forest Bathing?
On a sunny summer day in 2021, I led a group of children beside the Animas river in Durango Colorado.
Silently Healing Through Nature
In an increasingly fabricated culture, being able to sit in silence and be one with Nature has become difficult. In