[Jen Medrick]

I’m coming back to this very belatedly, here at the end of our program. Other than the discussion for Foundations 2, this has been a spot I have felt most resistant. Prior to EBI, every time I looked at how to start a coaching practice, the talk has been about niche, client avatar, very specific demographics, and so on. This has stirred up several different responses in me, including:: “Oh, no, I can’t promote myself because I don’t know who my clients are…” and “Screw that! I don’t fit in that marketing box!” and “How does that serve my Vision?”

A year later, I feel much more grounded in myself as a coach – I feel confident in my skill set and in my capacity to be of service to my clients. I also feel like I know myself much more fully (and have whole new toolsets to continue that exploration). From the dozens and dozens of sessions I’ve done, both with practice clients and with my own long-term paying clients, I do have a sense of who my ideal client is and a slowly growing peace with how that might look.

And, I want to feel into what I’m for again here.

My Evolving Vision:

My deeper Vision (as I see it in this moment) is to be part of weaving humans back into belonging with and to Nature, developing their connection to Soul, and living from a sense of the Sacred (ceremony, ritual, mystery, mythic and metaphoric language, story…), where purpose, resilience, and aliveness emerge from this interwoven connection.

My personal Mission is to bring all my skills, perspectives, and training to support people in this endeavor through:
Emotional, relational, and restorative practices for places of wounding that stand in the way of our ability to connect, know ourselves, and find connection.
Invitation to explore their bigness, their longings, visions, and intentions.
Effective coaching for making meaningful and sustainable change.
Mentoring, facilitation, and teaching in connecting to the natural world.
Facilitation, coaching, and teaching around creating personal ways to nurture a sense of the Sacred.

Why is this work important to me?

I believe that inspired, connected people who deeply experience themselves as part of something beyond themselves will be able to participate in envisioning and creating a more beautiful, resilient, and sustainable world in which all life thrives.

What do I get from this?

I am lit up and fed by witnessing and supporting people in coming alive. It permissions me to be and express my own aliveness and purpose. I / they / we become the transmission of what that can be like. I get to engage my heart and Soul in the work that I do.

I get to be out in the natural world consistently, which feeds my soul (and body). I get to live as, and be, an example of how this can look. I get to make my core values and experiences explicit in my life – how I am in love with the world, my access to joy and wonder, my capacity to be with and hold intensity for myself and others, my experience of a life well-lived. And, I get to do all the practices and have all the experiences that I invite others into as part of my own life – indeed, I’m obligated to put into practice this work, to walk my talk and fully permission myself, not just others.

What I know about who I want to work with:

I want to be able to work with anyone, in any context, who wants to orient their life, purpose, and impact within larger circles of meaning and belonging and for whom I am a good match. I want to work with people who bring their heart and soul to their lives and who want to transform how they are in the world with that in mind.

Most likely, my clients are people over 30, who are able to meet their basic survival needs (or have been able to do so in the past), who are experiencing a new awareness or shift in how they understand their lives. They are likely at a turning point where they are ready for something more – deeper meaning and purpose, a way to both continue to meet their basic needs but to also be of service to others or to something beyond themselves, a desire to infuse their lives with new aliveness and joy. They may just be waking up, getting curious, questioning the ways that they or their community or our larger culture have been doing things.

Traits: curiosity, willingness to explore outside their comfort zone, enough ground in themselves that they can begin exploring beyond themselves…

I want to work with my clients on multiple levels. Sessions on the land, in the emergent and exploratory space, wandering in threshold. Healing sessions – where it is safe to feel deeply, where old ways of being can be moved through to make way for new. More practical sessions about measurable goals, action toward their intentions and vision. Larger imaginings, radical daydreaming. Parts work as part of awareness and choice and the integration of more of themselves as allies. Ceremony – as ways to inspire, invoke / evoke, and infuse intention and vision with passion and aliveness. Group practice – not sure what this looks like, but something that includes cultivating relational connection, witnessing, invitation, and celebration in community.

I also want to find, support, create, participate in, ongoing community with people at all levels of this exploration. What does it look like to create engaged, ongoing, integration in these arenas? To gather with others who are oriented to the deep Soul connection that is embedded in belonging to the living world? To not only have this be in a professional paid capacity or in the role of client, but to be an emergent collaboration of tribe, of fellow journeyers?

Reflections on how this work shows up elsewhere (other organizations and practitioners):

I have been involved with many organizations over the years. Outdoor education and adventure experience. Mindfulness and meditation work in relational space. Ceremonial sisterhood. Women’s groups. Transformational and awakening trainings. Nature (in the broadest sense – embodiment and nervous system, relational connection, the outside world, cycles and seasons, metaphors and more) and Soul have been present in all of them. Amazing threshold or peak experiences of growth and connection, of healing and catharsis, of imagining and being in contact with new ways of being self, community, and Spirit. All of these are phenomenal at this.

And almost every single context I’ve been involved in lacks a follow through that supports true integration and the co-creation of new ways of being and living and connecting. Once the program or experience is done, the money has been paid, that’s it. I want more. I want to help envision and create collective ways of carrying all gifts of transformational, nature and Soul connected experience into larger communal and cultural territories. I don’t want to do it alone. I want peers and kin. I want community that orients to Soul, to transformation, to belonging to Life, to work with to envision something bigger, that I can just begin to imagine.

[Jen Medrick]

I forgot to put this at the end of my post!

A nature and soul connected guide that seems very aligned with what I want to explore is SoulSkin Journeys (https://www.soulskinjourneys.com/offerings). I particularly like the range of offerings they have: shorter circles, one on one sessions, a 9-month deep dive, and support for those who are parenting adolescents.

Beautiful soul and nature connected language describes what they do:

• “remember our innate reciprocity with the Earth and our ecological kin”
• “connect with the wild world + soul, so you may re-member and weave your intimate belonging into the world”

There is a raw, revealed, and honest feel to the way and the why of what they do. Purpose centered, oriented within the framework of Ecopsychology, an invitation and challenge to drop in, show up, claim our wild essence in service to all. And strangely humble too – not all flashy and high-end, but natural and deep.

While some of the framing is a little stronger than I might use, the general approach not only feels deeply aligned but inspires me to find my unique way of naming what I’m for, what I’m inviting, and how I support others in soulful and life affirming ways. The approach of SoulSkin Journeys has me imagine more is possible than I thought. I want to do some journeying and wandering, some radical daydreaming and visioning, about what my version of this might be!

[Jen Medrick]

Summary:
I want to consider what it would be like to be as beautifully explicit as Cynthia in my work with clients. I want to ask them to explore Soul-centered practices (like 360 awareness, sit spot, gratitudes, journaling, wandering, vision council, pendulation, radical daydreaming, altars, parts work, ceremony, and so on) and choose one or two to commit to. I want local clients to agree to at least some sessions on the land. I want remote clients to spend time in their locale regularly. I want to be able to name Soul and nature connection as explicit aspects of the work my client and I will do together. And, I may need to move into this at an easy pace, the way I’ve been integrating parts work into sessions as it emerges naturally, and trust that as I live into all these things myself I will find the evolving way for them to become central.

I want my coaching and guiding to be a path to right livelihood and service, to being an invitation to others by coming from my own Soul directed and nature connected way of being and belonging, but also an opening to a collective threshold for as many people as I can touch or be touched by, that leads to transformative change rooted in Life, and serves us all.

[Jen Medrick]

The core of threshold for me is experiential. It is the direct contact with what is and what might be. It is embodied, felt, congruent. It is contact with self, Soul, world, Spirit, that has the capacity to transform us, at least in the moment, or to invite us into new territory. In threshold, something becomes possible that might not have existed before or that we need to nurture and return to again and again to allow and create change.

I’m remembering the quote from Daniel: “To do what you’ve never done before, you have to be who you have never been before.” In threshold, we are exploring this self we have never been or rehearsing the new self we now have glimpses of from previous thresholds.

In coaching, the safe space to actually step into this unknown and emergent space is core to entering threshold. And there is an incredible power to being seen, witnessed, and received in this moment of becoming. So often, who we have been has been held in relationship to others. This new self also needs that feedback and context to see, explore, find, and step more into itself.

The most potent experiences of threshold I have had all revolve around deep contact with Soul and a sense of contact with my vision and with strong glimpses, felt-sense experiences, of who and how I am when I am aligned to Soul. And to do this while in contact with other beings (the world, a tree, the wind, a coyote, a coach…) helps me validate and welcome my emergent self in this exploration.

The way that I was, have been, in the past relegated Soul to something not to be named too directly, to be hidden. Soul and soul-centered living or being (a reverent and embodied is-ness in the world) was something only religious people do or new age folk who talk the talk without actually embodying the walk. Being soul-centered might mean I would be rejected. Others might demand I justify or defend or quantify what Soul is for it to have validity. It might not be safe, practical, allowed, seen, or otherwise permissible to come from a place of Soul. I might get hurt; my Soul might get hurt (or destroyed).

And yet, this deeper sense of me, of my purpose, vision, calling, longing, arises from this contact with Soul. Everything I most desire, the world I most want to inhabit, the need I most want to meet, arises from Soul connection. And Soul for me is about being actively embedded in and belonging to the living world. It’s about creating community, ways of being, ceremony, expression, that emerges from deep Soul-belonging in and to the world.

Throughout EBI and in other areas of my life in the last year or two, I have been following my longing to be Soul-directed, and to be this overtly and explicitly in the broader world, not just in my internal private spaces. I feel like I am in the process of “coming out” and it has been exhilarating and terrifying.

Some examples include:

• A session during Foundations with Amanda, where I got to take the first step of naming my intent to commit to devotion, reverence, gratitude, and communion, and speaking from the intensity of my love for the world.
• A session with Lilia in the Council Grove at the Starhouse, where I got to claim how deep-rooted, ongoing-over-time connection to place is essential, natural, and necessary for me, and how claiming a sense of the sacred, of an earthly, immanent, embodied expression and exploration of the holy is my spiritual territory. In contact with Lilia (and witnesses), with land I’ve loved and been welcomed by for 16+ years, I felt seen, received, open, while actively revealing and sharing this core aspect of who I am, of my Soul.

The relational nature of the exploration – the living world, the sacred land, the Soul centered sharing, the being seen, the invitation to reveal more – was essential. Something becomes possible through this immersion. My longing to be and feel ecstatic and embodied and the way that continues to emerge through practice in the threshold brings me back again to John Davis stating: “The natural world mirrors, evokes, and develops those inner qualities usually assigned to the realm of religion and spirituality – unconditional love, joy, power, peace, support, grace, and guidance.”

The power of my own experience of being and revealing myself in threshold totally informs my awareness of the power of this as a coach and guide. I’m aware from the larger cultural model of coaching how it’s easy to skip this sort of experiential depth in the more mainstream, transactional coaching module. Threshold offers the invitation to actually step into the deeper need, whatever that is. To be one who stands in Soul, to express what has never been safe or known previously, to find voice, or feel something new.

Threshold is the radical daydreaming that makes change possible, that inspires and informs who we want to become, especially when evoked from intention and awareness in severance, and supported with effective integration and incorporation.

And it depends on the coach using many of the core competencies: creating trust and safety; letting the client lead and determine direction; maintaining presence especially through capacity to be with the unknown; deep listening to effectively mirror the client’s experience; and facilitating client growth.

Threshold is one of the most potent tools in our toolbox and the experiential, embodied, in contact with the world quality of being in threshold is transformative for me and something I will tend with and for my clients.

[Jen Medrick]

I feel like I actually wrote most of my summary and take away questions in my initial long post.

After reviewing what we’ve all written here, I continue to walk away with a desire to explore how broadly we can hold the ecopsychological perspectives, in our lives and in our coaching. We have these amazing tools through the NCC program and our own engagement and experience to help ourselves and our clients become aware of ourselves, orient to our relational natures – self to self, self to other, self to world, and inhabit the world from a realization that we are inseparably a part of nature, of all that is. I want to see how many ways this orientation can show up – from body and senses, to mind and intent, to relationship and culture, to a turning myself over to something beyond knowing: Source / Spirit / Life. I want to carry that experience into my vision and my way of being an invitation to others.

[Jen Medrick]

This has been the hardest aspect of the whole NCC course for me to engage with and speak to. The enormity of this territory originally left me feeling utterly overwhelmed, struck with grief and love, wanting to speak eloquently to the essentialness of this question and not leave anything out, and afraid to touch the raw core of my own experience.

Tonight, almost a year later, sitting in my home in Boulder, Colorado, after days of wild hurricane level winds, raging grass fires that took out around 1000 structures, mostly homes, and the loss of beloved animal companions, landscapes, and a sense of place, and then a winter storm and frigid temperatures, this territory feels deeply relevant. The extremity of the last few days likely arises in part from human separation from the world. I’m feeling the ripples of fear, loss, grief, hope, love, community outpouring, and awareness of the larger context in which the last few days have occurred. My community is reeling and seeking to respond with resilience to immediate crises. And I, and likely others, are recognizing that this is also the local face of the larger climate change reality.

I’m recognizing my own empathic awareness, that biophilia – “the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms” that E.O Wilson (who just died this week) hypothesized. I’m safe, my home stands, my family and beloved animals are well. And, I’m finding myself surging with grief and gratitude, determination and despair, and such a deep and abiding love for the world, for Life itself, that my heart breaks open. This connectedness, this love, and a desire to support, evoke, and invite it in others, is actually the heart of the work I want to do in the world – as coach, guide, and simply member of the community of life on Earth.

When I think about how ecopsychology and coaching come together, I’m struck with Roszak sharing John Seed’s assertion that we need a “profound revolution in human consciousness… a change in the human heart and mind” if we are to save the beings and living systems with whom, to whom, we belong.

Ecology is the study of connectedness, perhaps spirituality is too? Connectedness to Source, to something bigger than ourselves. Psychology is the study of the individual psyche, the individual human experience of existence, a connection to Self. Bringing them together links our Selves with our larger embedness in the world and life. Perhaps we are an emergent locus of awareness, a current within the larger body of Life, a line or note in the veritable symphony of all that is? As part of this “music,” we shape and are shaped by it.

Coaching seems to be at its heart a path of supporting clients in finding their fullest potential, in helping them thrive, develop new awareness, orient to the deeper need and desire for meaning in their lives, and effectively weave all of this into how they actually live and act in the world. As nature-connected coaches, part of what we might hold for our clients is the invitation to orient their own thriving within the larger thriving of the world. To recognize that their own wholeness is inextricably linked to the wholeness of the world.

This orients us (me) as doing a particular type of activism in service of nature and Life as a coach and guide. I genuinely believe that our real thriving emerges from a sense of deep belonging – and that our belonging to the larger community of life is both undeniable and an essential awareness for us to return to and cultivate. Working with people in collaboration with nature is a way to nurture this awareness and cultivate this belonging while also tending directly to their own intentions, deeper needs, healing, and transformation.

As John Davis states in Wilderness Rites of Passage, “The natural world mirrors, evokes, and develops those inner qualities usually assigned to the realm of religion and spirituality – unconditional love, joy, power, peace, support, grace, and guidance.” Even if we don’t make it explicit, by choosing to work in the natural world, to bring in the embodied experience, to welcome what actually is, and to support our clients in the direct threshold experience of being who they need to be to inhabit the world they most want to live in, we are modeling and inviting their deeper connection to the world and to Nature / Life / Source in the largest sense and helping them find the resource and resilience that this connection brings.

Ecopsychology is a continually evolving field that recognizes, tracks, and affirms the link between individual and collective, between Self and Source. It asserts that the well-being of each is inextricably linked to the well-being of all. Many of the writers and thinkers we have read in this arena inquire what it would be like to nurture love and loyalty rather than guilt and fear to begin to create that shift in consciousness, in heart and mind, that changes how we perceive and show up in the world. It’s this same shift in consciousness, this orientation to what we want (versus what we don’t want), that we actively seek to engage with our clients to support change.

I believe that what we most need right now are people who are embodied, connected, and fully engaged, who know their own hearts and mind, who know what they love, who can tolerate ambiguity and discomfort, who can search deeply, and who can creatively explore new answers to both personal and collective questions and recognize themselves as part of life on Earth. Supporting this in myself and my clients and in the world at large is the heart of my Soul calling.

I’m left with questions:

• Do we as nature-connected coaches have an ethical responsibility to seek to foster our clients ecopsychological selves along with everything else? To orient our clients’ exploration within this larger framework?
• And if so, how might we do this and how is this held along with the essential tenet of coaching being client-led?
• How do we mix larger contexts (ecology, culture, and more) with individual want, desire, need, and intention?
• And thinking about how clients can come to coaching at the behest of a “sponsor” (from Coaching Skills), could we / should we consider Nature or ecosystem or Being (as the ever emergent expression of all that is) as the sponsor for our work with clients? Where we are holding the client with deep respect but also holding the needs and expectations of the sponsor as well?

I feel like this is the tip of the iceberg of this inquiry. I still feel overwhelmed by the enormity of this territory and I also feel a new capacity and renewed commitment to owning for myself that inviting others into this deeper belonging and awareness, in service to each person and the larger collective, is my Vision and purpose. I’m also sitting gently with myself as I struggle with this particular exploration, holding my heart tenderly and honoring the depth of my longing, love, and desire to help us collectively shift into new ways of being.

[Jen Medrick]

Wow, Cynthia! This is such a beautiful vision. I feel that, like Suez, you speak so clearly here because you know this territory intimately. Your expertise in the field, as a professional woman in male dominated arenas, and as someone with such a deep relationship to nature, will be an incredible gift within the coaching container.

Reading how explicit you are being with the practices like 7 stairs, 360 awareness, and wandering, as well as saying one session will be on the land and expecting daily commitment to nature and ritual – this is so direct! I’m inspired and a bit intimidated imagining that much direction… and I want to explore what this might look like for me.

I talked about a sense of “coming out” around my commitment to Soul, to Life, to a sense of the Sacred. This has been and continues to be edgy on a personal front. How you create expectations of and for your clients based on how you want to coach and your larger vision has me begin to imagine for myself what that might look like in my vision. What might I ask directly of my clients?

I come back again to how Michael requires Parts work from his clients… How does my sense of the clients I most want to work with shift if I get this direct and explicit?!

Deep gratitude for the inspiration!

[Jen Medrick]

Suez, once again the depth and clarity of your vision, and how developed your sense of what you are up to, inspires me. I agree with the others that your personal experience with these topics brings such richness and integrity to your vision.

I also came at this from places of resistance on multiple fronts. Thanks for modeling how it can be done anyway, lol.

I also love this: “Approaching the client with the perspective of exposing the inner ember that just needs the tending, the nurturing to catch and then BLAZE…” thus reminding the client HOW to see who they are and getting the privilege of being with them to tend this fire. Yes! Yes!

[Jen Medrick]

I love the inclusiveness of your exploration here – with your own experience, with how you are in threshold, with the way you reflect each of us with such clear seeing, with how nature came through even in this virtual context.

Your Cloak of Coaching! I want to know more – what color is it, what texture, what is in the inner pockets? How do you feel and what qualities do you embody when you wear it? How has it evolved over time?

You write: “In these sessions, around this ceremonial fire, the client is in a place where they are honored and respected, given permission to be WHO they are, WHERE they are at any given moment, that they are SEEN , HEARD and HELD within the Sacred Space that we have created together.” This same sort of intentionality to include the entirety of a person is in your Ecopsychology post too. This feels like the heart of how you create safety and bring your unique coaching presence, your unique presence overall, with such fierce heart! I love it!

[Jen Medrick]

Two lines stand out to me in the overall richness of your post, Rachel.

Juniper saying “you treat nature the way that you treat yourself.” And the question you ask:
“I wonder how many people may be turned off to the idea of connecting with nature.”

I’m coming back to the experience and concept that WE are nature. If we are treating nature the way we treat ourselves, and then turned off by the idea of connecting to nature, are we also turned off by the idea of connecting to ourselves? There is something that happens when we find ways to engage with outer nature where we also find ourselves engaging with inner nature. And then, this whole exploration becomes a path to Soul.

I love how personal this inquiry becomes for you… it invites me into more personal exploration myself. I have so much access to the natural world here in Boulder, CO and yet sometimes am resistant to making contact with what’s right here even when it is so deeply resourcing. I’m applying the questions to myself now: what am I struggling to connect to internally that is cutting me off from connecting to the world? And this is such an important question with our clients too.

[Jen Medrick]

Whew, I’m really feeling your framing of the Great Disconnect. My child (he/they) is totally absorbed with their phone. It runs in the background even when they are doing other things. And the need for a phone and computer arose during Covid and the necessity of having ways to contact friends or participate in school during lockdown. I feel this wave of sadness at the impact… while also seeking to meet my kiddo where they are.

Seeing first hand how this unfolds, I notice this great curiosity about how to utilize the overwhelming technology to expand connection to body, life, world, Soul – in my life, my child’s life, my client’s life. We’re doing it right here, in these conversations. We do it when see client’s on Zoom.

How does virtual space also become part of place, of Sacred Ground, of webs of interconnection? How do we expand our sense of inner and outer Wilderness in these new digital territories while also orienting to the physical body, the radiant community of life, the landscapes and rhythms of the natural world?

I don’t know why this is what comes to mind reading your post, but I’m curious how we, as nature-connected coaches and just as humans, widen and deepen how we listen, how we notice and honor where people are, and how we see and find “nature” throughout all the realms available in ways that serve the Earth, ourselves, and Life… I’m gonna have to keep exploring this.

[Jen Medrick]

Amanda,

I love your statement about nature-connection itself being the practice of your spirituality, from the ideas in books and studies, to the experiential aspect of being outside. And the modified Trinity – Humans / Source / Nature – what a way to reinvigorate those concepts.

I’m curious, all this time later, how you are committing to the physical part of your spiritual practice? How are you making the time amidst it all? What does it look like now?

I’m remembering the session you facilitated for me where I was yearning toward cultivating a sense of devotion in my own spiritual practice. It was so powerful to be able to talk about concepts that often arise in a religious context but, as you say, are too big to stay in the frame of traditional religion. The impulse toward a direct experience of the Sacred feels so core to how we orient, that anchor you name. Your awareness of how that looks within Catholicism provided an invitation and language for me to explore how these anchors and spiritual practices might come through me, without religion. I love how you can still participate with your family and go to church, recognizing what is of value there yet still holding your own bigger and more nature-connected view.

[Jen Medrick]

Hi Amanda,
I’m belatedly going back and completing Foundation homework. Your post here was so rich and brought me right back into the fullness of this work (both personally and as a coach).

I love the range of your experiences in the threshold: haven, the threshold of the whole intensive (that left you grateful and charged, yet tired and exhausted) that was like last breath and brand new life, and the impact of Soul Routines and the Neverending Story in exploring strengths, hope and power. Wow!

I too am sitting with your question about what threshold means. I think the core of threshold for me is an experience of deep contact with self, Soul, world, Spirit that leaves us transformed or invites us into new territory that we wouldn’t have found without crossing some boundary. I think at its best, threshold creates an “ah-ha!” moment or a new intimacy or even a new question or identity to wander with.

Threshold can absolutely be facilitated for yourself and / or by life itself! I even think some thresholds arise organically or biologically – birth, giving birth, death, puberty… and culturally – marriage, divorce, the rites of passage that still linger in certain religious traditions.

How are you continuing to engage with threshold at this point?

[Jen Medrick]

Cynthia, I love the personal nature of your post and getting a sense of how the practices are living in you and inviting you into a deeper experience of your connection to nature. And, having a “script for cultivating this belonging” – YES! I’m excited to see how living from this place continues to expand how you speak to what you are doing, be the reverent and attuned person you already are, and invite exactly the people who most need what you bring to work with you! This post feels like a celebration!

[Jen Medrick]

Wow, Amanda, what an impactful time. I am really feeling that question: How do people move positively to the other side of trauma and grief? I have been close to someone suffering a variety of complex PTSD and traumatic impacts. I care about this question as well. And your inquiry on how your boss has survived in the face of the intensity of his experience feels profound. When you quote Way of the Wilderness – ”Uninterrupted and undisturbed nature takes care of itself.” – I find myself pondering that the whole situation with PTSD and trauma arises because “nature” has been interrupted and disturbed and we haven’t culturally or systemically provided ways to feel, express, integrate, and re-orient from those experiences.

We need that relational connection to heal and make sense of or give meaning to what caused the trauma. It makes me think of Soulcraft and other books by Bill Plotkin, who tells the story of the “Loyal Soldier.” After the World War II was over, for years, Japanese soldiers were found on remote islands or other obscure places where their planes had gone down. They had survived but literally been out of contact and had no way of knowing that the war was over. They were primed and ready to continue serving their country to the best of their ability. Unlike what has happened in the US (particularly after Vietnam and beyond), where soldiers have been spit upon, cast off, left to their own devices, and so on, the Japanese brought these soldiers home to genuine gratitude, celebration, and welcome and helped them find ways to bring that same devoted service to new arenas, to new purpose. I think most of us long for our actions to serve something bigger than ourselves. And these loyal soldiers (both literal and the parts within us) need to be woven back into connection in intentional and attuned ways.

I am very curious to see where this exploration will take you and what insights you may bring to support people in these arenas…