A book of spiritual nonfiction by Rachel Strivelli is out and ready to read. Talk to trees: Wake up to Wisdom, Wonder, and Calm.  This book is a journey for healing and inner peace. What if I told you that the trees themselves are waiting to guide you to feel …

Here is a selection of nature meditations and reflections to use to meditate or have on in the background while you daydream and doodle. Enjoy.  The tree wood slice that says Hi.  Grounding meditation, 5 minutes Survival skills from a tree.  Benefits of Grounding Youtube short.  Start out with Grounding …

How can you think like a mushroom and improve your life? Mushrooms take deadwood and create life and sustenance from it.The end of the month is a wonderful divine time to clear out the dead wood and let it be used elsewhere. Do you have the numbers of ex-lovers, disappointing …

Sometimes we have shame and embarrassment about saying no. Shame is such a powerful emotion, we even have a plant named after it. Mimosa pudica, the shameplant. Let’s pause and consider Mimosa pudica. This plant receives a lovely chapter in Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book World of Wonders. She shares how in …

If you falter, if you lose your creative spark, if you lack in confidence, there is one place you can awaken these feelings again. There is one place you are always home, always belong. Go to the forest, the mountains, the lake’s shore or ocean’s edge. Go out into the …

If you feel concern for the planet, worry about climate change and think we are overfishing and polluting the earth, I want to help you get back to the essentials. I understand the existential ache that you feel. It seems daunting. And yet we can start addressing your pain and …