FirReal Nature Connections

FirReal Nature Connections Nature Connected Life Coach and Shamanic Practitioner. Helping heal the Earth one person at a time. My love for trees and nature has no end.

I invite you to join me in nature as we walk with intention, purpose and mindfulness. Bring your troubles and your worries, but also your wishes and powerful requests of healing in nature. Experience a connection with nature and it’s healing abilities as you take the time to stop and listen to your infinite self, and as you listen to nature you realize you are one. Enjoy exploring nature uninhibit

ed and from a new perspective, and yes, there will most definitely be some tree hugging involved. I have a Forestry and Wildlife Conservation course certificate, a Horticulture Crop Production and Protection Certificate, am a Horticulture Production Journey Person, and have completed an Intro to Nature Connected Coaching course. I am currently enrolled in a Transformational Coaching course, a Wildcrafting Basics, and Wild Forest Bathing (Yasei Shinrin-yoku )Teacher Training.

A simple practice for this weekend that takes five minutes and costs nothing:Go outside first thing. Before your phone. ...
05/09/2026

A simple practice for this weekend that takes five minutes and costs nothing:
Go outside first thing. Before your phone. Before coffee if you can manage it.
Stand somewhere natural — even your backyard, even a patch of grass. Look up before you look down.
Take three slow breaths and just notice what the morning is doing. Temperature. Light. Sound. Smell.
Don't try to make it meaningful. Don't set an intention. Just be a creature outside in the morning for five minutes.
Your nervous system will know what to do with it even if your brain thinks it's too simple to matter.
Try it this weekend and tell me what you notice. 🌿

Self-sabotage is one of the most misunderstood things I see come up in this work.We treat it like a character flaw — lik...
05/08/2026

Self-sabotage is one of the most misunderstood things I see come up in this work.
We treat it like a character flaw — like some part of us is just committed to failure.
But in Partswork, it looks different. It looks like a part of you that learned — at some point, for good reasons — that getting what you want is dangerous. That visibility leads to criticism. That success means more pressure. That hope is riskier than staying small.
So it intervenes. Every time you get close. Not to hurt you — to protect you. From something that once felt like a real threat, even if it isn't anymore.
The question that changes things isn't "why do I keep doing this?" It's "what is this part of me trying to prevent?"
Does this land for you? 👇

Slowing down has a reputation for being passive — like it's something you do when you've run out of momentum.In practice...
05/07/2026

Slowing down has a reputation for being passive — like it's something you do when you've run out of momentum.
In practice it's almost the opposite.
When you actually slow down, you start making decisions from a clearer place. You stop reacting and start responding. You notice things you'd been moving too fast to see. You spend less energy undoing things you did in a hurry.
Slow isn't the absence of momentum. It's a different relationship with it.
What would slowing down look like in your life this week — even in one small area?

A few things that actually help when you're sitting in uncertainty and your nervous system is not happy about it:Name wh...
05/06/2026

A few things that actually help when you're sitting in uncertainty and your nervous system is not happy about it:
Name what you actually know. Not what you're afraid of — what you actually know right now. Fear shrinks when it has to get specific.
Notice where you're safe in this moment. Uncertainty usually lives in the future. Your body is almost always okay right now.
Stop trying to resolve it ahead of schedule. Some things need more information before they can be decided. Forcing a decision before that arrives usually just creates a different problem.
Get outside. Not to think about it — to give your nervous system a break from thinking about it.
Uncertainty isn't the problem. Our relationship with not-knowing is.
Which of these do you find hardest? 👇

A tree survives wind not by being rigid — but by being rooted.The branches move. Sometimes dramatically. But the root sy...
05/06/2026

A tree survives wind not by being rigid — but by being rooted.
The branches move. Sometimes dramatically. But the root system underneath is what makes that movement safe rather than catastrophic.
Resilience in people works the same way. It's not about being unmoved by hard things. It's about having something deep enough that movement doesn't mean being swept away.
Roots take time to develop. That's not a flaw in the process — that's the process.
What helps you feel rooted when things get hard?

Not everyone who comes to this work is in crisis.Some people just have a persistent feeling of being slightly out of ste...
05/04/2026

Not everyone who comes to this work is in crisis.
Some people just have a persistent feeling of being slightly out of step with themselves. Functioning fine on the outside, but something underneath quietly off.
That feeling is disconnection — from your body, from what you actually want, from a sense of what's true for you underneath everything you're supposed to want.
The work isn't always about fixing something broken. Sometimes it's just about coming back to a version of yourself that feels like home.
Does that resonate with anyone? I'd love to hear what that's looked like for you.

Nature doesn't produce without resting.The soil needs fallow time. Trees pull inward in winter. Even the most productive...
05/03/2026

Nature doesn't produce without resting.
The soil needs fallow time. Trees pull inward in winter. Even the most productive growing season is followed by a dying back.
We understand this completely when we see it outside. We have a much harder time applying it to ourselves.
Rest isn't the reward you get after enough productivity. It's part of the cycle — the thing that makes the next productive period actually possible. Skipping it doesn't make you more efficient. It just means you're drawing on reserves you haven't had time to rebuild.
If you're tired today, that's worth taking seriously. Not pushing through as a point of pride — actually resting.
The wheel keeps turning whether you force it or not.
🌿 How do you actually rest — what works for you?

Something I notice pretty consistently in the women I work with:The way they talk to themselves when something goes wron...
05/02/2026

Something I notice pretty consistently in the women I work with:
The way they talk to themselves when something goes wrong is a way they would never talk to someone they loved.
Not even close.
There's a version of inner criticism that feels like accountability — like staying hard on yourself keeps you from getting lazy or complacent. But that's not actually how it works. Chronic self-criticism doesn't improve performance or outcomes. It mostly just creates a background hum of not-enough that follows you everywhere.
Compassion isn't the opposite of accountability. It's actually what makes genuine accountability possible — because you can look honestly at something without needing to escape the discomfort of seeing it.
How you talk to yourself matters. Not as a feel-good concept. As a practical reality.

Today is May 1st — Beltane in the old Celtic calendar, and the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer s...
05/01/2026

Today is May 1st — Beltane in the old Celtic calendar, and the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.
If the spring equinox was about tender beginnings — things just starting, still uncertain, still gathering — Beltane is where that energy starts to have some confidence behind it.
The seeds that went in the ground in spring are visibly growing now. There's warmth with some weight to it. Things are moving with momentum rather than just possibility.
In earth-based traditions this was considered one of the most alive times of the year. Not the quiet aliveness of early spring — something fuller than that. More committed.
It's a good day to ask yourself what's actually growing in your life right now. Not what you hoped might grow — what's genuinely, visibly moving.
That's worth putting your attention on. 🌿

Tomorrow is the last day of April.I find these small thresholds worth pausing at — not in a big ceremonial way, just a q...
04/29/2026

Tomorrow is the last day of April.
I find these small thresholds worth pausing at — not in a big ceremonial way, just a quiet check-in. A month is long enough for something to have shifted, even subtly.
What did April bring you that you weren't expecting? What started that you want to keep going? What are you ready to leave at the end of this month rather than carry into the next one?
Spring has been doing its thing out there regardless of what was happening in your life. The light kept coming back. Things kept growing. That steadiness is worth borrowing when your own feels thin.
May tends to have a different energy than April — fuller, warmer, more momentum. Worth knowing what you're bringing into it.

Something worth noticing in yourself this week:When something happens that bothers you — a comment, a situation, a perso...
04/28/2026

Something worth noticing in yourself this week:
When something happens that bothers you — a comment, a situation, a person — how much time passes between the thing happening and you responding to it?

Reacting and responding are different things. Reacting is immediate, automatic, driven by whatever pattern or protection has been running longest.

Responding is what happens when there's even a small pause in between.

That pause is where most of the real work lives. You don't need to meditate for an hour or process it for days. Even a breath. Even walking away for five minutes. Enough space to let the first wave pass before you decide what to do with it.

The goal isn't to stop having reactions. It's to stop letting them make all your decisions.

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