Hello my loves ,

On the way home from a wellbeing fair which unfortunately had a poor turn out, I noticed this feeling sitting in my chest . I’d say it was sadness .
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why? I enquired ….

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It was a brilliant day , I meet new practitioners, we networked,I got to share my work with them. We had lots of lovely conversations, connection were made . A positive day all in all.
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So why do I have this feeling thats somethings off.

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Is it because what I can offer to others isn’t fully understood ?

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Some times I find it hard to explain this work. From the out side it looks like foraging for natures gifts, and making something pretty.
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But it’s not that.

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Yes it’s simple but the work I do can’t be copied . This important work has a depth that you won’t believe to be possible until tried . Our training was incredible thorough a bit like doing a 3 year degree ! But then again what does that even mean? Ive tuned in to this practice as a way of life , it runs through my blood , Im connected to the land , Ive become a part of something much bigger!

Nature!

Perhaps even I hadn’t realised that until today . Hence this feeling.

Im starting to realise theres much more to this that I can offer. That it’s like fermenting food, making wine or planting a seed , It takes time for it to grow, to alter your soul✨
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Workshops are joyful and a lovely way to start on this journey but I know I want to offer you more!.

So back to beavering away, working out how this can be done .

Creating more opportunities .
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What would like to see in my offerings?
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A course online? Offline?

1-1 training

particular guidance around a certain subject (i.e grief,illness,self love)

What make you reach out to nature?
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Would you like to learn ways to connect with the land?
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The list goes on…

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I’d love to know your thoughts?
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Here are a few pics of the land, skys around me .

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So this sadness that perhaps I was feeling may not be my own sadness, may be it’s for the land. Or in-fact is the lands.

May be the land itself wants us to be and interact with her more !

I’d love to tell you a story about my tree maple that relates to this.

Im not sure if Ive told you about Maple? Im pretty sure when I first wrote she was in my first newsletter.
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I’d often walk past her And be wowed by the size of her. There was something about her canopy that struck me with ore . Years later I started reading Glennie Kindred books. There is one called Earth wisdom that Im fond of. ​
​she speaks in this book about noticing trees when we walk. Which ones are you drawn to? When you tune in some times you even notice a pattern, that it’s the same type of tree or that theres these 3 trees that stand for example.
I tend to find myself with a rowan, a silver birch ,a lime, an oak and a horse chestnut.
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Any way , I was visiting my tree maple. I talk to her before I approach her, ask if it’s ok to sit with her then get comfortable often sitting in a little nook thats naturally formed at the base of her trunk, my back to hers.
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I sit….

I wait……

Time slows down , so much so I physically feel it in my body. I look up at her , the leave glistening like the seas breathing on a gentle day. I take some deep breaths , I check in with myself, noticing the subtle changes by just being here with her.
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Then I start to chat. Sometimes it’s telepathic, other times aloud.
what strikes me is theres never a pre thought out conversation. I never really arrive thinking I must ask Maple this.
This helps me to believe that the relationship I have here isn’t made up.
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I asked her on this particular day if she was ok and I was truely astounded by her response.

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No , I miss humans! It’s lonely sometimes, you don’t really see many people these days.
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My heart just weeped for her. ( this often happen’s, she used to me crying ) theres an insta video about this if you’re intrigued.

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never did I expect to be on the receiving end of this.

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so the sadness i talk about in all three separate occasions, sad syndrome, the work Im doing and maple , just maybe it’s a collective understanding, frustration maybe that we are living in a world thats just not that tuned in.
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I want to help change this.
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I’d love for you to be a part of this too .
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Please go hug a tree after reading this, let them know you see them.

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all my love

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Lija 🌳

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