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Green Friday instead of Black Friday

This year, I’m inviting y’all to observe a Green Friday instead of Black Friday with 12 ideas for flora and fauna fun.

Our Sacred Nature Retreat 2024

After a wonderful first year of planning, hosting and enjoying Our Sacred Nature Retreat, we are...

A journey to share my wild love for the world

Ahead of me is a month of travel for the calling I’ve been been working so hard to manifest in the world. Now the seeds I’ve planted are blooming in spectacular color and I get to share my wild love for the world with a lot of curious and creative folx.

Embracing the Sacred Earth: A Guide to Observing the Liturgical Season of Creation

Explore the profound significance of the Liturgical Season of Creation and discover how it can rekindle your connection to the natural world and the divine presence within it.. Understand the season’s themes and learn how to bring its essence to your faith community, fostering spiritual awakening, ecological renewal, and a deepened appreciation for the sacredness of our natural world.

Our Sacred Nature Retreat

At the end of the 1960s, a willful child was born into a Southern Baptist family. This child was...

In the Reverie of the Forest: Guided Forest Bathing for Mental Health Month

Guided forest bathing is an invitation to slow down, to breathe deeply, and to surrender to the subtle rhythms of the forest. By doing so, we unlock a host of mental health benefits, nurturing our souls and finding solace in the serenity of nature.

5 Ways to Welcome Spring

In the northern hemisphere, the Earth is beginning to awaken from her winter slumber. As we approach the threshold of the spring equinox, we are reminded of the cyclical nature of life and the importance of honoring the changing seasons. Here are five invitations to honor this time of renewal and growth.

What is Wild Church?

Wildwood Wisdom gathers on the first Sunday of each month for Sacred Sundays, an expression of...

SEO for Forest Therapy Guides

Although it may feel antithetical to our calling as nature therapy guides, a calling often...

EcoSpiritual Leaders Course

We will engage our minds, bodies, and spirits in explorations of ideas and practices aligned with EcoSpirituality. We will move through four sections — Gratitude & Grief, Forest Bathing, EcoSpiritual Practices, and Creation Care.

All bodies are sacred

A generative critique of capitalism is an essential strand in my forthcoming book Wildwood Wisdom...

World Communion, St. Francis and Laudato Si’

Sunday, Oct. 2nd this year was World Communion Sunday. Today, Oct. 4th is the day marked by...

Fall Equinox – turn, turn, turn

I was shuffling around the garden shed looking for my crate of dormant tulip bulbs when images of...

Welcome to the pack, Butterbean

Some of y’all know that we lost our dear Louie this summer to cancer. Beautiful people, it is my...

A wildwood book deal!

Friends and kinfolx, I am excited to finally share that I’ve signed a book deal with...

Sit Spot – be still and know

“The first good thing is the goodness of nature." - Julian of Norwich How many seconds has it been...

Back to School and Back to Nature

Healthy teachers are the foundation for healthy classrooms. How can a walk in the woods increase faculty and staff well-being and resilience within an educational setting? How can forest and nature therapy help mitigate the stressful demands of the classroom?

Picking Blackberries & Taking Selfies

The day before we hitched Sugar Magnolia to the station wagon I logged out of Facebook and deleted...

A Guide’s Harvest

I began my journey as a nature therapy guide long before I found the Association of Nature and...

Urban Foraging in Amsterdam

Before I moved to Europe the only kind of tea that would pass these lips was iced and sweet. Tea...

Unplugging In, With and For Nature

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. When we experience and embody our interdependence with the more-than-human world, we recognize the opportunity to partner with creation to work toward environmental justice for all.

3 minutes of forest bathing

I wonder what it would be like for you to silence the distractions around you and sit still, noticing your breathing, while watching 3 minutes of nature time in the Veluwe…

Don’t Meditate

Meditation can be daunting. Perhaps, don't meditate. Just try being still and quiet for...

Letting go of someone you love – family edition

There seems to be no end of wise quotes and pithy memes out there for helping someone discern if it’s time to let go of a partner. There’s an abundance of solid advice to confirm what one’s gut is telling them is true – that it is time to move on from a relationship that is no longer healthy for you.

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