Holistic Ecotherapy Guidance

What is holistic ecotherapy guidance the Whispering Wilds way?

It's a path back to our wild roots and our ancestral community in nature. It's a way to maintain balance within ourselves, with others, and for the living world.

At its core, this guidance is based on mirroring or mimicking nature in our daily lives. There's so much we can learn from the brilliant designs nature creates to sustain life. We study, find insights, consider how we can apply them to our own experiences, and live like the wild.

A Holistic Approach

Ecotherapy is a broad umbrella term that includes many activities designed to improve well-being through nature. Forest bathing and rewilding are two common approaches. However, my approach is uniquely holistic.

In a holistic view, we have multiple bodies that must remain in balance to avoid becoming unwell. When one of our bodies suffers, they all suffer.

I embrace six holistic bodies that make up our whole person: physical, mental (also called emotional), spiritual, energetic, social, and environmental. Every single body is touched by my holistic ecotherapy guidance. The goal is to align and maintain alignment, working alongside nature and in relationship with the living world.

🌿Our physical body is the body we live in and all its anatomy.
🌿Our mental or emotional body is the body that holds our thoughts and feelings.
🌿Our spiritual body is the body that houses our soul and the seat of our relationship with other spirits and the cosmos.
🌿Our energetic or etheric body is the energy that helps all our bodies communicate, and is in constant contact with the energy around us.
🌿Our social body is the part of us that needs community and connection.
🌿Our environmental body is the body that's intertwined with the world around us; we depend on the world, and the world depends on us.

In nature, nothing works alone. A flourishing forest is made up of many different flora and fauna that, when in balance, thrive together. Since we are made up of many bodies, we function like walking ecosystems.

When you work with me, we examine nature to learn from its incredible intelligence. We find inspiration for our own whole-person well-being. We learn to combine the wild's lessons with practices like meditation, journaling, art, and play to grow a personal grove of tools that help us achieve holistic balance, untame ourselves, promote wellness, and care for others and our planet.

My method is deeply collaborative and built on freedom and flexibility. We aren't just teacher and student, guide and seeker, or provider and client. We walk together every step of the way. While our relationship is professional, it lives in kinship and respect, patience and support, encouragement and kind care.

What Holistic Ecotherapy Guidance Isn't...

The Whispering Wilds method of holistic ecotherapy guidance is not a substitute for modern medical treatment or mental health care. It works alongside them, and it's a way to learn how to achieve the balance we need to stay well.

One Method, Many Options

I'm multipassionate and multiskilled, so it makes sense that my method offers many approaches. My holistic ecotherapy guidance layers nature's intelligence, holistic principles, psychology, neuroscience, energy work, spirituality, eco-awareness, and eco-love on top of...

Traditional Wellness
Meditation and breathwork, including guided meditation, mindfulness, and box breathing.

Journaling
My original approach, called Rooted Reflection, as well as gratitude journaling and visual journaling.

Movement
My original approach, called Pathing Potential, as well as sound walking and earthing—also known as grounding.

Energy Work
Usui and Crystal Reiki with my own wild twist, and my original vocal-based energy work, Etheric Voice Technique.

Spiritual Work
Casting the bones—my deeply personal oracle of spirits that I tend and consult, and animist spirituality.

Creativity
My specialized approach to intuitive photography and meditative or channeled art, plus neuro-doodling and nature-based painting or sculpture.

Play
Completely custom roleplay campaigns (think Dungeons & Dragons but with stories set in the wild and no complicated rules), co-op video games, board games, and card games.

The activities we do in our time together will be based on your needs, goals, and interests, and what is appropriate for you.

What to Expect

Getting started is easy.

Once you've selected a service that calls to you, I'll email you to get you set up. We'll begin at a time that's convenient for you and work around your schedule for live or Reiki sessions as needed.

Async guidance, care packages, readings, and other options are sent directly to you.

This work lasts a lifetime, but the purpose isn't to make you dependent on my guidance or the method. It's to give you what you need to help yourself. If our work turns into a long-term relationship, I'll be thrilled to walk with you for as long as you wish. No pressure. No expectations. No guilt.

Because every single one of us is unique, and at different stages of untaming and different states of balance, it's impossible for me to predict an exact timeline or results.

What I can tell you is that I'll jump in with all my heart, take your hand, and we'll start where you are. That may be at the very beginning of your journey back to your wild self, or it may be that you've been doing this for quite some time. We'll figure it out, and we'll make and change plans as needed.

Nothing is set in stone. Everything in nature flows, and so should we.

You'll get training in my method, holistic ecotherapy guidance and education, and every opportunity to connect with the wild and draw on its wisdom to achieve the goals we set.

There are no quick fixes. This isn't hustle-based wellness. It's an invitation to change your mindset, lifestyle, and life in partnership with the wild.

Learn with me through online lessons. Study at your own pace, anywhere, anytime.

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Untame yourself with personal guidance to nature-inspired well-being.

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