Hi Community I am so incredibly excited and honored to be one of the trainers, along with @Jessica Jurcak in New Hampshire with the Forest Therapy Hub in September. This is an amazing opportunity and I am thrilled to be back in New England to connect to the land and the international community that is growing a science based moevent! Check it out! https://foresttherapyhub.com/summer-school-2026-usa/ He @Kirk Ward promised I would share.

Ok school community I have been swamped and a lot out of touch! As I wait in the airport for my delayed flight I am reflecting on what is important. I am grateful to all of you and for the community we are building together. What are you doing this summer to reset! What micro practices are you leaning into?

I'm excited to share that I'll be joining the teammate the Evergreen Foundation @Brandon Decremer @Dinka Salvador tomorrow for a live discussion and I'd love for you to be there. We'll be diving into the Neuro-Somatic Integration Framework: → Rooted in science → Guided by nature → Embodied in practice This isn't theory for theory's sake. It's a framework for understanding how the nervous system, the body, and the natural world weave together — and what that actually means for how we live, heal, and grow. Come with your questions. Come with your curiosity. Come with whatever's been stirring in your own practice. Drop a 🌱 below if you'll be joining us — and feel free to share what you're hoping to explore. If you are not a member of Evergreen and you want to listen join here https://www.skool.com/foundations/about?ref=a3bfdcabb1224ddda298c11771774468

I just added this quote from Prentis Hemphill's book, What It Takes to Heal, to my website "For healing to take place, for it to be felt, for it to root, remake, and rearrange us, it has to happen not only in the realm of our thinking, but in the soil of our bodies. Healing has to be embodied." I have re-listened to several episodes more than once, and re-visted the book a few times as there is always so much to digest If you are not aware of their work, it really is a must-read/listen. If you have read this book or listened to their podcast, share your thoughts in the chat! The Podcast Becoming The People is full of wisdom and grace! https://prentishemphill.com

There's an old tree that I visit on my morning hike. Its roots run deeper than any of us can see, anchoring it through storms that have torn down newer, taller things. Its branches have grown broad and patient, offering shade to anyone who needs it — no questions, no conditions. That's what elder wisdom looks like to me. Not loud. Not insistent. Just present, the way deep roots are present: holding ground that the rest of us can stand on. I am striving to cultivate the elder's energy that listens, inviting the noise of urgency to quiet down. I can be quick to chase the new branches — the latest idea, the newest voice. But branches only reach that far because something below has spent decades drinking quietly from the dark. The wisdom of those who have lived longer than us is not a relic. It is the root system we forget we are standing on. Find your elders. Sit with them. Ask them the questions you don't think they'll know how to answer. You may be surprised which roots run deepest.