Nature Based Therapy

10/11/2025

🦋Mistaking Soul Connection for Trauma Bonding

🌿Sometimes what feels like a deep soul connection is actually a trauma bond. Both can feel magnetic, familiar, and emotionally intense — but the energy beneath them is very different.

🌿A soul connection expands us. It brings peace, safety, and growth. We feel seen for who we truly are, not for the wounds we carry. There’s space to breathe, to be curious, and to heal together.

🌿A trauma bond, on the other hand, feels urgent. It often stems from unmet childhood needs or patterns of survival. The highs are euphoric, but the lows are destabilizing. We confuse intensity with intimacy, chaos with chemistry.

🌿The key difference lies in how we feel within ourselves: soul connections ground us; trauma bonds drain us. When we slow down, regulate, and listen deeply, our body often knows the truth long before our mind does.

🦋True connection doesn’t hurt — it heals.

09/11/2025

Have you ever felt that nature has been quietly guiding you, reminding you to slow down, listen, and grow at your own pace? 🌿

If so, this might be your next step.

The Advanced Accreditation in Nature Based Therapy is a 12-month journey of self-discovery and professional growth, helping you weave nature, healing, and holistic health into your work and daily life.

This program is for practitioners, educators, and wellbeing professionals ready to integrate nature as a co-therapist, and for anyone called to reconnect deeply with the natural world.

✨ March 2026 Cohort
💫 Early Bird Enrolments now open — save 10% upfront before Jan 15, 2026
🌿 Limited to 12 students

Let 2026 be the year you grow alongside nature. Apply now:
https://www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/NBTAccreditation

08/11/2025

Returning Home: Seeing Awe, Mystery and Beauty in Nature

When we slow down and allow ourselves to truly be in nature, something shifts. The noise softens, our breath steadies, and we begin to notice the small wonders we usually rush past—the shimmer of light through leaves, the scent of damp soil, the sound of wind moving through trees.

In these moments of stillness, awe awakens. We begin to sense the mystery woven through all life, a quiet intelligence that moves through the rivers, the forests, and through us. This awareness reminds us that we are not separate from nature but part of its living web.

When we witness beauty in the world around us, we start to recognise it within ourselves.

Our own rhythms, emotions and stories begin to feel natural again. Through presence and slowing down, we access our inner healing intelligence—the part of us that knows how to restore balance, to mend, and to return home to wholeness.

In nature’s reflection, we remember who we truly are—wild, beautiful, and complete.

04/11/2025

| Just like trees, we are shaped by the environments we grow in.

Sunlight, wind, soil, and water all influence how a tree takes form, and in the same way, opportunity, adversity, support, and love shape who we become.

Some of us grow tall and straight; others twist, bend, or branch wide in search of light. Yet every path reflects resilience and adaptation.

Through the wisdom of nature, we’re reminded that we can keep growing, even after storms, and that every curve in our story holds beauty.

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Discover how trees and people grow through their environments. Explore how light, wind, soil, and life’s challenges shape our resilience and authenticity.

02/11/2025

It’s the final countdown!

This Friday, November 7th, we gather for the Introduction to Nature Based Therapy Workshop — a 4-hour interactive experience designed to help you reconnect, recharge, and bring new tools into your practice.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to join, this is it.

✨ Learn evidence-informed, nature-based tools
✨ Explore mindfulness and nervous system regulation
✨ Discover sustainable self-care for helping professionals

Let’s close the year grounded, calm, and inspired.

Final spots available:
https://www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/IntroNBT

29/10/2025

Just a gentle reminder…

The Introduction to Nature Based Therapy Workshop is happening next Friday, and registration closes soon.

If you’ve been meaning to join, this is your final week to secure a place.

In just 4 hours, you’ll experience:
🌿 Practical tools for emotional regulation
🌿 Nature-based mindfulness for yourself & clients
🌿 Simple self-care strategies to prevent burnout

November 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM AEDT | Online via Zoom

This is your invitation to pause before the year rushes to a close — and reconnect with what truly sustains you. 💚

Book your spot today:
https://www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/IntroNBT

28/10/2025

As the year winds down, many of us feel the pull to slow down — to reflect, recharge, and realign with what matters most. 🌱

The Introduction to Nature Based Therapy Workshop is your invitation to do just that.
In this 4-hour online experience, you’ll:
✔ Learn tools to regulate stress and emotions
✔ Reconnect with your sense of calm and purpose
✔ Explore how nature can guide healing — for yourself and your clients

November 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM AEDT | Online via Zoom

Spots are filling → https://www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/IntroNBT

Sometimes the best professional growth comes from remembering your why. 💚

23/10/2025

🌳 The Importance of Strong Roots 🌳

I came across this fallen tree today — a powerful reminder of how important strong roots are. On the surface, this tree looked tall and sturdy, but when the storm came, it couldn’t stand firm.

In life, our “roots” are the values, relationships, and inner grounding that hold us steady when the winds of change blow through. Without deep roots — connection to self, purpose, community, and spirit — we can easily be uprooted by life’s challenges.

Take time to nurture your roots: rest, reflect, stay connected, and keep growing below the surface. Strength isn’t about how tall we stand, but how deeply we’re anchored.

21/10/2025

| What if I told you that simply believing something works could actually make it work? That by convincing ourselves of a certain outcome, we aren’t just tricking the mind, we’re actively shaping our reality?

This is the power of the placebo effect. Often dismissed as a medical curiosity or psychological quirk, placebo reveals something profound: the mind can influence the body, our experiences, and perhaps even the fabric of reality itself.

When we pair this inner power with the grounding presence of nature, we remember that healing isn’t something outside of us, it’s something we can cultivate from within.

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Placebo effect and nature connection reveal how belief shapes healing. Discover how mind, body, and nature work together to restore balance and wellbeing.

19/10/2025

Ever wondered what the Introduction to Nature Based Therapy Workshop actually feels like?

It’s not your usual webinar. It’s a gentle, interactive 4-hour session where we slow down, reconnect, and remember why we do this work in the first place.

Here’s a little glimpse of what you can expect:
✨ Guided reflections that bring you back to yourself and the natural world
✨ Practical tools for regulating stress and emotions
✨ Real-life examples of how nature-based therapy can be used in practice
✨ A restorative space to pause and recharge

Whether you’re a therapist, educator, social worker, or wellbeing practitioner, this workshop offers tools and perspectives you can take into your work and life.

November 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM AEDT | Online via Zoom

Limited places available — join us here:
www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/IntroNBT

18/10/2025

✨Nourish, Don’t Diminish✨

In love, find someone who nourishes your spirit — not diminishes it.
Someone who walks beside you, not ahead or behind.
Someone who values your worth, mirrors your strength, and uplifts your soul.
True love complements the love you already have for yourself.
It’s like two trees growing side by side — rooted in their own strength, yet intertwined through shared sunlight and gentle winds. 🌳💫
Together, they thrive.

15/10/2025

That’s one of the reflections shared after a recent Nature Based Therapy session, and it speaks beautifully to what this work is all about.

In the Introduction to Nature Based Therapy Workshop, you’ll experience how nature-based approaches can create calm, connection, and wellbeing both personally and professionally.

November 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM AEDT | Online via Zoom

Spaces are limited, book your spot now:
www.naturebasedtherapyacademy.com.au/IntroNBT

Let nature teach you a new way to practice. 💚