The dweebiest title to ever exist, yes… but it was the first thing that came to my mind when I was thinking about writing around nature, therapy, and mental health.
So, a little change of plan. After thinking I would wait a year before I continue my therapy training journey, I start a diploma on the 27th of September!
So so exciting. I have mentioned before my dream to become a wilderness therapist. There have been so many things that have influenced my passion for this. From my time living in Orkney in combination with previous therapy training to my MSc thesis around hiking as well as completing has all really inspired this way of thinking. To combine my passion for providing an open, safe, non-judgmental space to share with the expansive, open, outdoors-nature= dream.
My plan is to pursue Wilderness Therapy Training & Immersion alongside completing a counseling diploma. It is not easy to think about beginning another academic journey. I love to learn; I am a curious dweeb. I am really interested in human psychology, healing, and everything that surrounds counseling, so that makes it much more doable in my mind. Yet, limiting beliefs always weave their way in. Even after all my educational experiences, pushing way past where I thought I would ever be when I first left school, I still don’t feel “academic enough”.
I still get the niggling reminder that I have dyslexia and for some reason, this will hold me back or make. It doesn’t. I know deep down the unique perspectives that dyslexia brings can be really beneficial. I feel like it makes us connect things and see the world in a different way.
Presence and nature.
I think that the sense of presence we feel when we spend time in nature allows us to remove the potential “damaging effects" of the modern world that can sometimes highjack our thoughts and feelings or at least limit them. It also removes some of my self-doubts... I think hanging out in the woods or hiking up a hill gives us that true time and space to tap into peace, to listen to how we truly feel, good or bad or indifferent.
Part 2 coming soon
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