Psychologies

Force of NATURE

It all started when my art psychotherapist suggested we go into the woods. Although her therapy space is situated in a cabin in said woods, and I’d taken myself for post-therapy walks among the trees each week since starting, we’d never ventured out together. I wasn’t sure what that would look like. It turns out it looked like me, an hour later, standing under an ancient oak, wearing a crown of foraged woodland objects on my head, holding my six-month baby bump as I welcomed in this new season of my life.

I was as resistant as I was intrigued. What if we encountered someone I knew? Or what if I suddenly found myself blubbing uncontrollably as a group

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