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journey
to self
wellness and joy
through Nature
by j. christina brittain, PhD
I am an ecopsychologist, but I have chosen not to practice clinical psychotherapy. My practice is guided by a deep interest in helping well people become even better.
And I accomplish this by showing them ways to enhance wellness and joy in all aspects of their lives through the inspiration and guidance inherent in direct contact with Nature that arouses sensory wisdom within.
Tucker's Landing on the Columbia River Gorge in the early years of homesteading near the Cape Horn Bluffs.
River boats stopped at the landing to pick up fuel, and to load or unload goods, and river travelers.
I love my work and cannot think of anything that rewards me more than helping people find safe, supportive places in Nature to discover exciting, positive new truths about themselves. It is in the trustable security of wild places that people's hearts and minds reveal new aspects of self without fear, guilt, or shame.
Sound simple? It is.
Open up to your full potential by setting aside false disconnecting/dominating stories. You will begin to see how mutual support and reciprocity enlivens and fulfills your passions and creativity.
People who go to Nature to explore who they really are embark on an adventure filled with fresh curiosity about what learning trustable new stories of self.
In Nature, they begin to hear unspoken truths, reconnect to repressed feelings, and gain new understandings of the world, others, and self.
Go to Nature. Let it help you evolve and prosper. Let its wisdom fuel your journey. Let its power both antagonize and nurture you. Go to Nature…you will find yourself there.~jcb'04
In Nature, people slowly relax and let their inborn wisdom come back to life. And they are often surprised when their innate slumbering wisdom awakens within. It happens because they depart from their usual left-brain analytic skills of language and logic to intuitive ways of knowing the world.
Learn to drive
your emotions
rather than being driven by them.
In Nature, people begin to feel truly alive as they connect to the present moment. And feel deeply grateful to be in the world.
People often report an experience akin to quiet elation and glorious revelation as new avenues of knowledge enter their conscious minds, as their hearts and spirits expand, and as they make deep connections to mind, body, and spirit, often for the very first time.
Christopher Wynter, says,
"What you are looking for is what you are looking out of, which is what
is looking for you."
and, “The true teacher cannot teach you anything. He can only remind you of what, on some level, you already know."
In Nature, people are bathed them in loving support felt as exhilaration, and a willingness to gain deep insights into what they genuinely need to enhance wellness and joy.
Nature may ignite a hidden passion…awaken a long ago silenced longing, reveal what’s been there all along…your own sensory wisdom... the real “YOU.”
In Nature, they find the courage and energy to welcome positive change into their lives.
What is it REALLY?
Explorations of self through Nature might best be described as a deliberate, purposeful, aware, wakeful state of receptivity to new knowledge about self.
Nature creates conditions that stimulate imagination and produce a desire to transform unmet needs and subtle longings into clear conscious action.
Wellness Goods will continue to evolve, expand and prosper, offering worthy words and merchandise for both you and Earth from many of your fellow planetary adventurers. Use all of this as fuel for your own journey, whether it antagonizes or resonates with what you have come to believe. What you will find may ignite your forgotten passions, and strike long ago silenced chords, revealing what has always been there, a deeply buried treasure, the pearls of your own knowledge and wisdom, awaiting you, as " YOU."
Nature's wisdom efficiently, effectively carries people beyond the restrictions of their self-imposed and acculturated bounds so they can, at last, discover ways to fulfill the nagging feeling of missing-ness, long felt, but never before understood.