It has been a month ago that I wrote a blog. The last blog was about my grandmother’s death and how I found solace and inspiration through the willow in our garden: My grandmother was a […]
Tag: belonging
My first #Virtual Forest Therapy Walk was in San Diego, New York, Denver, Toronto and in Belgium – at the same time
In times of corona, I get to know the garden and forest surrounding my family homes better. I needed also time for myself to heal some inner wounds, but from the middle of April I […]
Ecofeminism in 2020 – or in the time of corona
Last year, in the same period, when I was doing a research internship in Mexico, I wrote an article called Ecofeminism in 2019. I wanted to post a blog ‘ecofeminism in 2020′, just before international […]
The Forest Awakens – or starting my journey to become a forest therapy guide
Earlier in September, two weeks before the autumn equinox, I started my 6 month long training to become a certified guide of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides (ANFT). I traveled to this […]
Forest Therapy Taking Root
Our hectic society gives us little or no rest, so we often get overworked and overtired. Since the 21st century, forest therapy has been prescribed as a medicine for city dwellers to deal with stress […]
Sacred “Garden” trees of Norway and Sweden
When I was doing research about trees in Norway I found this interesting paper by Douglas Forell Hulmes about “sacred trees of Norway and Sweden: a friliftsliv quest” and was of course immediately intrigued. His […]
