The Medicine of Humming: What Humming Bees, Hummingbirds, and the Human Nervous System Can Teach Us About Wellbeing
What if healing begins with vibration? Explore how humming bees, hummingbirds, and the human nervous system reveal ancient lessons about regulation, connection, calm, and wellbeing through the simple medicine of humming.
Are We a Traumatised Society? How Accepted Parenting Practices Like Controlled Crying May Be Shaping Adult Mental Health and Relationships
Controlled crying has long been accepted as a way to teach babies independence. But what if early experiences of unanswered distress shape the nervous system in ways that carry into adulthood? This blog explores how attachment, regulation, and connection influence mental health and relationships across a lifetime.
What the Ocean Teaches Us About Emotional Regulation and Responding to Triggers
Emotional regulation through nature begins with awareness. Like the ocean, our nervous system moves in waves; rising with stress and returning to calm. By learning to observe rather than react, we can navigate triggers with greater ease and presence.
From Shame to Self-Compassion: A Student’s Reflection with the Nature Reflection Cards
A student reflection using the Nature Reflection Cards reveals how nature can mirror our healing journey. Through the metaphor of marcescence, this story explores releasing shame, embracing self-compassion, and recognising that growth often unfolds slowly, in its own time, just like the cycles found in nature.
Reconnecting with Growth: Reflections on the Tree Timeline Assessment
Growth doesn’t always happen by moving forward—sometimes it begins by pausing and looking back. The Tree Timeline Assessment invites a compassionate, nature-based reflection on who we are, where we’ve been, and what is ready to grow.
How Nature-Based Therapy Bridges Lifestyle Medicine and Clinical Practice
Lifestyle medicine, championed by organisations such as the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM), focuses on addressing the root causes of chronic disease through pillars such as nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and social connection. Nature-based therapy brings these principles into lived experience, supporting nervous system regulation, meaningful movement, relational connection, and a renewed sense of purpose. Together, they bridge the gap between health promotion and clinical practice, offering a more embodied and integrative pathway to wellbeing.
Sustainability and the Art of Working With What You Have
Sustainability and resilience are not just environmental ideals, they are lived practices. In downsizing to a smaller home as a single mother of four, I discovered that working with what you have can transform scarcity into creativity, struggle into strength, and survival into a deeply intentional way of living.
Returning Home: Finding Awe, Mystery and Beauty in Nature and in Ourselves
In a world that moves faster than ever, slowing down has become a radical act. When we pause long enough to notice the quiet miracles of nature, the sway of trees, the shimmer of light, and the rhythm of tides, we are invited into awe. In this stillness, the boundary between self and world softens, and we remember that we are not separate from nature but part of it. Through beauty, mystery, and presence, nature guides us home to our inner rhythm, our innate healing intelligence, and a deeper sense of belonging and wholeness.
Nature as Teacher: Remembering Our Biophilia and Healing Through Connection
Nature does not rush, yet everything is accomplished. In her rhythms, patterns, and presence, nature teaches us how to regulate, soften, and remember who we are. This reflection explores biophilia, nervous system healing, and what becomes possible when we return to right relationship with the living world.
Life Transitions: What Nature Teaches Us About Change
Life transitions invite us into seasons of letting go, uncertainty, and becoming. Through the lens of nature based therapy, we’re reminded that change is not something to resist but something to move with guided by the wisdom of natural cycles, stillness, and renewal.
