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Nurturing nature connection & rewilding

09/26/2025

Summer➡️Fall 2025
My online presence has dramatically changed over the past years - no wonder! Moving and parenthood is extremely time consuming. My offerings have significantly reduced as well. And I am finally OK with it; I've finally landed into a certain truth and its reality.
On ☀️ summer solstice ☀️ I quite my job. I worked in that field for over 8 years. To a degree, it was who I had become. That career shaped me, but didn't serve me anymore. And I didn't realize it until it was over. I didn't realize how much it took me away from things that truly matter: spending quality time with my family, ideally in natue... I was absolutely stuck in a state of 'functional freeze', like a burntout zombie. I wish I had spent more time consulting the trees during this time. You learn and grow.

What followed though was a summer of adventure!!! I took on a summer position at a different workplace with much better hours (and pay) and this process liberated me. We spent so much time outside: discoved new beaches, paddled a lot, went on hikes... Our home was overall cleaner as well. Slowly, but surely: I felt an end to this massive burnout. I have returned to a more playful self and enjoy my parent role much more again. I even feel more connected to my partner (bye-bye roommate phase?). My mental state and soul seem to be improving. I dearly hope my body gets to experience this sooner than later, too.

Meanwhile, the land here was and still is experiencing a massive drought and several forest fires. That resulted is a temporary ban to enter the forest. That had a very 'Covid 19 Pandemic Lockdown' feel to it. My unpopular opinion: there were valid points on both 'sides'; There were Pros and Cons of this government's decision and the public's response to it. Politics...

I will be returning to the world of guiding this fall with 3 different offerings. That's plenty to be honest - for me and after this extreme summer, perhaps also for the natural world!

As we continue to navigate our place and impact on this Earth 🌎 ... continue to explore how you can connect, love and show up.
Connect with, love and show up for yourself, nature and all its beings. It truly matters!

06/07/2025

Another walk with the lovely crew!

Our time together: agendas left on the desk, our hardworking brains given a break, focus shifted onto slowing down, being present... in nature amongst all the birds and plant life bursting with life.
Sounds easy, but it certainly required some intention and effort. After a while, everyone seemed to have settled in nicely into this guided forest bathing experience ♡

This time spent together brought up childhood memories, vulnerability and a whole lot of laughter. A morning well spent if you ask me!

Thank you to everyone who chose to spend their day off experiencing therapeutic time in nature. And thank you dear earth for guiding these individuals into their depths and experiencing what you so generously offer!
🌎 ❤

05/28/2025

What a treat to guide the lovely staff from on this hot spring (summer) day!
We all agreed on the importance of slowing down, even and perhaps especially when everything around us is buzzing, blooming and growing. It takes practice and intention to pause, slow down and notice your surroundings. The results of doing so were very much felt today!
In between squirrels, crows, blueberry blossoms, dogs (so many dogs 🐕), catfish, babbling brooks and so much more... it felt truly wonderful to return to the world of guiding.

First walk of 2025; feels like the deepening of a taproot 🌱

03/10/2025

Creating community ♡
.. through a first gathering at our home:

》Maple Sap Social 2025《

In the past, I had been invited to other nature lovers' homes. With so much enthusiasm, pride and aliveness they would show and share their passions with me: inoculated logs full of edible mushrooms, hobby farms, wild edibles, skill sharing, bee keeping... I was so inspired. It was so incredibly contagious to be around these people. I knew I wanted to do the same one day, share so vividly what I care about. Today I finally did ♡

We hosted a first community building and skill sharing event of hopefully many to come. Key principles:
• Free
• A safe place
• Connected to nature
• Accessibility

The trees... the red maples we live by now; they were the gift bearers with their everflowing, sweet sap. They gave us reason to gather, learn, share and savour.

Thank you Red Maples.

And thank you to everyone who came to our home to bear witness to the generosity of these trees.

Snow falling from the sky, fire warmig our bodies, drinking the tree's sap; together in community, sip by sip, we full-body experienced the slow but steady arrival of spring, reminding us that we too are natural beings guided by the seasons.

🍁

01/15/2025

Hello 2025!
The depth of winter is here, inviting me to slow down, tune in and go on this inward discovery.
When I have a few moments to myself, I realize how burnt out I am. I am so exhausted! And while I have felt similar in the past, this parenthood exhaustion is a whole other level. On days where it's truly bad, I notice a reoccurring thought and dream that continues to show up: a vivid vegetable garden, lots of bright and colourful flowers, native plants and tons of space for wildlife to make this place their permanent home. I feel EXCITED and a zest of life flowing through me. Something I haven't felt so vividly in a long time...

We've begun tending to the land: clean up. SO MUCH TRASH left behind by previous tenants/owners. Honestly, it's SHAMEFUL and absolutely DISGUSTING. It's disappointing and strenuous work, but a very necessary job. We feel deeply obligated to see this land for its worth and support it best we know how to.
While we're outside, cleaning up, planning the garden, playing with our child... every now and then I get this 'sensation', 'feeling', 'hint', 'intuition' ... as if someone is tapping my shoulder: it's the trees. I just know it. They see us as we see them. We've started conversations with them, have introduced ourselves and are getting to know each other ♡

We've planted our first seeds, including some native species. And while I have no idea if they will take and if the soil our home was constructed on will even be suitable habitat for these native species, I have to at least try. Currently, these seeds are 'stratifying' (enduring cold to be able to germinate). This process of 'stratification' has been occupying my being a lot too. Maybe I am currently stratifying as well: enduring a prolonged period of hardship in order to come (back) to life.

I absolutely love plant themes and how we can utilize what we observe and merely understand to bring about peace and healing into our own lives.

The trees, plant life and seeds around my home might be less active or even dormant and hibernating... but they are CALLING me.
And I have to listen!

Excited to see what this year continues to offer!

10/29/2024

Next year's mulch 🍂🍁

I so want to do right by this land where we now have the privilege of making our new home. I feel a deep dedication, respect and obligation towards it.

The trees have lost most of their leave by now and I collected a lot of them. In the future, they will provide shade and nutrients for my garden beds. Right now, they provide overwintering quarters for insects and maybe even mammals. Yes, probably also for ticks.... But what the collection of this leaf pile also offers is reflection: as I raked the leaves, I moved my body. Exercise without exercising. A bonus if you ask me. Plus, being outdoors. Extra plus points. I thought about how we had been here since these leaves existed: we witnessed their coming to life as they witnessed us moving in. They provided us shade on hot summer days and we looked up to the crowns they formed and began to love and befriend the trees. As their colours changed, they created such incredible beauty and our hearts filled with awe. And then the leaves dropped, their tree going dormant.
We will soon have experienced every season on this quaint little property that is now our home. And we learn to understand how we begin to be a part of this cycle.

My job and duty as the new resident here: to honour this delicate cycle and tend to its vitality; contribute to its diversity, maintain and support it.

So these leaves, raked and collected, they hold a lot of meaning. And they tick off so many boxes, too:
✅ beneficial 🕷🪰🦋🐛🐌🪱🐁
✅ free 🚫💰
✅ local 🏡
✅ minimal impact
✅ organic
✅ natural

I am noticing: as I provide the land, so it too provides for me 💚
Thank you 🙏🏻

10/27/2024

1st guided walk on Mi'kma'ki 🌿

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to guide students of Dalhousie University, thx to . What an extraordinary way to foster students health and well-being, ensuring students have access to different offerings, activities and gear that bring them into the great outdoors. Thanks for letting me be a part!

After a solid break from guiding (~1.5 yearsish), returning to this practice and offering felt like stepping back into a knowing, a calling. Mother nature gifted us with a sunny, warm and comfortable walk, which was truly appreciated given the season of cold and darkness looms. One more invitation to truly feel the sun on our bear skins, dip our feet into the warm(ish) ocean and simply be.

Thanks to everyone who participated and mother nature for all her offerings on that day ♡

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