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Healing a Fractured Society Through Forest Therapy: Reconnecting People and Nature
In our fast-paced, screen-driven world, a deeper crisis has emerged—an epidemic of loneliness. Despite being more "connected" than ever...
Wendy Figone
Nov 24, 20244 min read
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Forest Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Path to Healing
The word trauma has been thrown around a lot lately in many contexts. While I’m not a psychotherapist, I am deeply trained and certified...
Wendy Figone
Nov 24, 20243 min read
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When It Just Won’t Fit: Lessons from an Airport Meltdown
I’ll never forget the man I saw at the Las Vegas airport, red-faced and desperate, wrestling with his bag at the carry-on sizer. It was...
Wendy Figone
Nov 17, 20243 min read
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"Embracing Solisorrow: Finding Healing Solitude in Nature"
Being in nature, I have found a beautiful, awe-inspiring sanctuary to sit with my own loneliness-melancholy—a deep, layered feeling that...
Wendy Figone
Nov 9, 20241 min read
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The Healing Power of Soil: How Nature’s Microbes Support Your Health
Have you ever felt a deeper sense of calm after a walk in the forest, a sense of grounding after breathing in that earthy scent? There’s...
Wendy Figone
Nov 8, 20241 min read
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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...
Wendy Figone
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Standing Firmly
Rooted in Nature: What We Can Learn from Eucalyptus and Redwoods Yesterday, I drove through a grove of the largest old-growth eucalyptus...
Wendy Figone
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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Wendy Figone
Apr 25, 20240 min read
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Hitting Mung and Attention Restoration
Overworking not only causes pain within our bodies (myofascial restrictions/fascial dehydration) but also impacts our ability to think...
Wendy Figone
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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Sleep Procrastination
I just was talking to a friend about sleep and he was sharing how since he is so busy with work and has a young family that he...
Wendy Figone
Mar 18, 20246 min read
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Appreciation and Happiness
Today I shared a beautiful moment with my son. I listed my extra (yes I had a second TV in my bedroom, which is a whole other story). A...
Wendy Figone
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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Things I learned about Forest Bathing (Shinrinyoku) while in Japan
I recently went to Japan to study where Shinrin-Yoku started. We took a long bus ride out to the Japanese Alps to meet with old Japanese...
Wendy Figone
Oct 21, 20231 min read
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Embracing Our Nature: A Journey of Self-Discovery
In the fast-paced modern world we inhabit, we often find ourselves caught in a whirlwind of responsibilities, obligations, and the...
Wendy Figone
Aug 27, 20233 min read
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Health Benefits of Forest Bathing
Try remembering when you spent an extended period of time in nature. Maybe it was a camping trip or a long hike. Do you remember how you...
Wendy Figone
Mar 14, 20227 min read
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The Ocean is a Perfect Place to Engage Your Senses!
This morning I went over to Mavericks in Half Moon Bay to practice mindfulness in nature AKA forest bathing. The ocean is a perfect place

Wendy Figone
Aug 17, 20212 min read
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Abundance Within Simplicity
This morning after sitting in my forest hammock, I received pure knowing which I believe was given to me through the sentience and...

Wendy Figone
Aug 17, 20212 min read
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