My WHY is You. Me. Our children. Our future.
My WHY is the future of all living beings that call this beautiful broken planet home.
My WHY is the plethora of pristine wild spaces I have explored and adventured in, and the imminent threat that our children may not share this same privilege.
Thirty years of partnering with people through deep transformation, healing, and radical change, has taught me that real change is the work of heroes.
The most vital task of now is to unleash our inner superhero for the health of our planet and all who call it home.
If we wait, it will be too late!
COVID jolted us out of complacency and generated the momentum needed for the most vital work of our time. Laying down vital tracks for others to follow will allow us to breathe more fully, sleep more peacefully, and inhabit our earth in a more harmonious way.
Powerful Climate Action is the single best insurance policy for our future. Our children and all living beings are counting on us!
Can they count on you?
My WHY is the future of all living beings that call this beautiful broken planet home.
My WHY is the plethora of pristine wild spaces I have explored and adventured in, and the imminent threat that our children may not share this same privilege.
Thirty years of partnering with people through deep transformation, healing, and radical change, has taught me that real change is the work of heroes.
The most vital task of now is to unleash our inner superhero for the health of our planet and all who call it home.
If we wait, it will be too late!
COVID jolted us out of complacency and generated the momentum needed for the most vital work of our time. Laying down vital tracks for others to follow will allow us to breathe more fully, sleep more peacefully, and inhabit our earth in a more harmonious way.
Powerful Climate Action is the single best insurance policy for our future. Our children and all living beings are counting on us!
Can they count on you?
Waking Up to the Climate Crisis
A 5 minute wait in a supermarket line in Brussels, Belgium changed my life trajectory.
It was the summer of 1990, two years following the birth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the same year it published its first report.
I was a sophomore in college.
A headline in the International Herald Tribune triggered an internal alarm and woke me up from my belief that all was well in the physical world. The article referenced newly released scientific data predicting severe climate instability and water wars resulting from global warming. It warned that human activity was setting us up for a course collision with disaster.
While occupational therapy was my chosen career path, an acute onset of undiagnosed eco-anxiety began a life journey in activism as a means of coping and moving forward.
From cycling through Argentina to raise environmental awareness, to becoming a priest in a Christian Mystical Order, to homesteading and rewilding a 5 acre plot of land with my family of four while serving as my workplace sustainability leader, 'action' has taken on many different forms. The unifying thread is that each resulted in realizing a greater sense of peace, purpose, and place in the world.
As this crisis grows and eco-anxiety spreads, I feel called to serve others through my own life experience. I have come to see the critical link between human occupation, how people occupy time and inhabit space, and the environmental crisis.
Collectively we have occupied our time and inhabited our spaces in ways that we now know are toxic to our environment and to ourselves. The desire for ‘bigger-better-faster-now’ in every domain of living has left us depleted, sick, and longing for meaning and purpose. Striving for a slower, simpler way of being and inhabiting the world has become the antidote.
Slowing down and simplifying makes room for passion and purpose to come on board. Being ignited by passion and fulfilled by purpose allows us to evolve as humans from a state of ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving’. This state of living and being is our birthright as humans and accessible to us all if we are willing to reach for it and get help along the way. We deprive ourselves of the opportunity to thrive when we remain trapped in desire and craving for things outside of ourselves or stuck in negative emotions.
The existential threat of the climate crisis can serve as an incredible catalyst for positive change in the world, beginning at home with ourselves. Indeed we must do what it takes to become the best possible version of ourselves because it’s our best possible way forward. It very well might be our only way forward.
What I know from making this journey myself is that once you learn to pry your fingers loose, letting go is a whole lot more fun than holding on. It is impossible to know what the journey ahead might look like and who you will become whenever you arrive at your next launching pad. But becoming your best self and a better keeper of the earth is sure to be one heck of an adventure!
If you want a catalyst to kick start your journey, I’m ready for you!
There is no 'away'. Climate Change is in our own backyard.
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In 2017, after living in California, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest, where wildfires and abnormal weather events were becoming the norm, my husband and I returned with our daughters to our roots in the Midwest to settle on a rural homestead in SE Wisconsin called The Nurturing Hearth.
For us, this return closer to our roots was about rewilding, regenerating, and revealing to our girls the laborious and wondrous path our food travels from farm to table. In 2018, after an unusually wet summer, an unprecedented storm front moved in. 65 tornadoes caused the kind of destruction I never imagined I would see in our neck of the woods. The land here is nurturing us and teaching us new things every day. It inspires me to be a better keeper of the earth and to go all in on climate action. It is my most fervent wish to inspire you to go all in too! |
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