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Insight Articles

Reflections and science-informed guidance on forest therapy, somatic stress recovery, nature connection, creativity, digital wellbeing, and practices that help people come back to their senses.

🌙 Tapping into the Imaginal: Forest Therapy as a Portal to Insight and Meaning
Wendy FigoneCreativity, Insight & Imagination

🌙 Tapping into the Imaginal: Forest Therapy as a Portal to Insight and Meaning

I did a year of Jungian dream work and learned how to lean into my dreams for guidance. That practice taught me that our unconscious has so much to share if we pause long enough to listen. Recently, I read Rubin Naiman’s book Healing Night and found myself pondering the benefits of letting the left brain rest — giving our thinking mind space to breathe.
Finding Harmony in Liminal Spaces: My Journey with Awai and Forest Therapy
Wendy FigoneCreativity, Insight & Imagination

Finding Harmony in Liminal Spaces: My Journey with Awai and Forest Therapy

Over the past eight months, I’ve wandered through trails—some familiar, some hidden—between Pescadero and Pacifica. I have been led by my heart to places where I feel deeply at home, eventually guiding me to my favorite beach, a stretch of coast where I now spend hours journaling with watercolors and tending to the land as part of my journey as a nature journaling educator.