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02/07/2026

Research on compassion and kindness shows us that acts of kindness are contagious.

“Other people’s kindness makes us kinder” In fact, kindness and compassion lead to a sense of “moral elevation,” with research showing that “witnessing kindness makes us feel more compassionate, and compassion predicts helping behavior” Thupten Jinpa, PhD.

So, when was the last time you extended a random act of kindness to a stranger? How did it feel to do so? When was the last time you received or witnessed an act of kindness from someone familiar or unfamiliar? How did your body instinctively react?

(Research and quote from “A Fearless Heart” by Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., Tibetan Scholar and Principle English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985.)

This post is an except from our February Newsletter! Navigate to our website to sign up for our newsletter (bottom of the page) for fresh ideas, therapy content and updates from the Evolve in Nature team straight to your email inbox. Link in Bio👆🏼

02/04/2026

Journal promt: How do you feel about rest? What were you taught about rest in childhood? Was rest earned, avoided, or allowed?

There’s physical rest for the body, emotional rest for the nervous system, and spiritual rest that reconnects us to our life's meaning and presence.

When we explore our personal and cultural stories about rest, they begin to loosen their grip on us. Our propensity toward burnout is lessened and we can soften the guilt that often surrounds slowing down 🥱

01/31/2026

🧠 Meditation challenge! Can you find compassion for your schemas by first labeling them and bringing awareness to them? A few more schemas are listed below. Which of the below schemas (or vulnerable, adaptive personality structures) do you relate to?

💬Abandonment/Instability: My close relationships will end because people are unstable and unpredictable.
🗣️Mistrust/Abuse: I expect to get hurt or be taken advantage of by others.
💭Dependence/Incompetence: I'm not capable of taking care of myself without help on simple tasks and decisions.
🤔Entitlement/Self-Centeredness: I deserve whatever | can get, even if it bothers others.
🌱Self-Sacrifice: I'm very sensitive to others' pain and tend to hide my own needs so that I'm not a bother.
👋🏼Approval-Seeking/Recognition-Seeking: Getting attention and admiration are often more important than what is truly satisfying

Recognizing our schemas is a form of mindfulness, and being kind to ourselves in the midst of an active schema is self-compassion in action!

When we understand exactly how a schema shows up in our lives, we're more likely to catch it. Can we say to ourselves, "Oh yeah, there I go again, self-sacrificing!" or
"There's my dependency schema again..." And then move on from the story it tells us?

There are 18 identified Schemas from Tara Bennett-Goleman book, Emotional Alchemy, about working mindfully and compassionately with our schemas. If you want to take an inventory of your schemas, go to www.schematherapy.com and read more about the 18 schemas or take the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ).

01/29/2026

We're bringing back our Meet The Team series with Charry ("pronounced like sorry, but with a soft sh").

Charry Morris, MA, LPCC is an incredible human and therapist here with us at EIN. She is from Colorado and loves her coffee, especially during these cold winter days ☕️❄️ You can catch her enjoying Mexican food, hiking and playing tennis.

A fun fact about Charry is that she's a PhD student 📚 who loves to pull and read tarot cards! Charry enjoys her family, especially her two adult children, her older brother and her dog. In and out of the therapy room, Charry loves delving into the dream world and works with dreams through various analysis modalities.

We love that our team is dynamic and human, just like you. We’re grateful to have Charry as part of our EIN community. If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, now is a beautiful time to connect with one of our therapists—we’re here to walk alongside you. 💙 Link in Bio to connect 👆🏼

01/24/2026

🌿Welcome to the Evolve in Nature Team, Noel! Noel is currently accepting new clients!

Noel Estopinal MA, LPCC — Psychotherapist (she, her, hers) takes a client-centered, humanistic approach to therapy, creating a warm and supportive space where all parts of you are welcome. Noel views therapy as a collaborative process guided by your voice, values, and lived experience, with the goal of deepening self-understanding, strengthening emotional resilience, and fostering meaningful connection with yourself and others 🦋

Noel works with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, life transitions, challenges with emotional regulation and self-esteem. Noel offers a neurodivergent-affirming space for those seeking support during times of change or growth 🌱

We're grateful that such a brilliant, compassionate human has joined our team and we encourage you to read more about Noel under "Our Team" on our website (Link in Bio 👆🏼) or schedule an appointment! 🥾

01/22/2026

Have you ever taken a self-compassion test? Dr. Kristin Neff PhD author and creator of multiple organizations centered around mindfulness and self-compassion, arranged a test for us to understand how self-compassionate we are... truly. 🧐

In the words of Dr. Neff, "Self-compassion simply involves giving yourself the same compassion you’d naturally show a friend when you’re struggling or feeling badly about yourself. It means being supportive when you’re facing a life challenge, feel inadequate, or make a mistake. Instead of just ignoring your pain with a “stiff upper lip” mentality or getting carried away by your negative thoughts and emotions, you stop to tell yourself, 'this is really difficult right now. How can I comfort and care for myself in this moment?' 🪷

Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings, self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with your failings – after all, who ever said you were supposed to be perfect?"

So, how can you raise your level of self-compassion? Self-Kindness, Common Humanity and Mindfulness are learnable skills that get stronger with practice. Self-compassion isn’t difficult, but for most of us, it takes intentional practice to make it a lifelong habit.

If you feel like taking the full test yourself, navigate here: 🔗https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-test/

01/17/2026

Your intuition is a critical source of information in the therapy room. Intuition is often referred to as a "felt sense”—an embodied signal that emerged not from logical reasoning, but from physical sensation. Often those attuned to their intuition cannot explain how they knew something—they just felt it in their bodies.

These signals are part of organismic self-regulation: the way your system naturally moves toward what it needs when awareness is supported. It's not magic— your brain is making fast, subconscious judgments based on patterns it recognizes and brings these patterns into awareness.

When you attune to what is present, moment-by-moment, long enough to notice these signals, your intuition becomes your guide, helping shape decisions, boundaries, and next steps that feel aligned. In this way, therapy becomes a space where your own knowing (your inner guide) is invited, honored, and trusted 🦋

01/15/2026

In the book, "The Mindful Path of Self-Compassion", Christopher Germer and Sharon Salzberg describe how we go to war with our own pain🪷

From a self-compassion lens, resentment toward suffering often shows up as:
♡inner harshness: “What’s wrong with me?”
♡isolation: “I’m the only one who feels this way”
♡over-identification: “This pain is all that I am”

Mindful self-compassion interrupts this cycle by inviting us to acknowledge our pain without fighting it, recognize that suffering is part of shared humanity, and respond with kindness toward self for the tough experiences we go through as humans.

Self-compassion doesn’t remove pain or make life pleasant all the time—but it softens the struggle around pain. This in turn begins to reduce our emotional reactivity and shame. When we stop resenting suffering and instead meet it with awareness and care, the nervous system starts to settle, emotions move through more freely, and healing becomes possible. The pain hasn't disappeared, but we’re no longer at war with the pain itself, making it easier to cope with the pain.

01/09/2026

"Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." 🪶 Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of "Women Who Run with the Wolves"

Each of us is already whole — a singular expression that has never existed before and will never exist again. When Clarissa Pinkola Estés speaks of eccentricity as a sign of giftedness, she’s naming the places we’re often taught to hide: our creativity, our strangeness, our sensitivities, our intensity, and our intuition... These are all forms of brilliance. These are living threads of wisdom to be honored. 🦚

So much of healing is the slow process of remembering that we were never meant to become someone else. Healing can mean reclaiming what was muted, mislabeled, or misunderstood. It takes courage to make space for our true shape. When we allow ourselves to be “of our kind,” we come into vitality, creativity, and belonging with ourselves 🦩

01/08/2026

Nature-based art doesn't require elaborate materials. It only requires our presence 🌲 When we slow down enough to notice what’s already around us, creativity becomes a way of listening rather than producing. Working with what the season offers invites us into reciprocal relationship with the land that nurtures us.

Art practices that are ephemeral in nature can be deeply therapeutic 🌬️ Since they aren’t meant to last, they gently loosen our attachment to outcome and invite us into process. Creating something temporary with natural materials mirrors life itself — always changing, always in motion — and can offer a quiet sense of relief and grounding 🌿

Arrange fallen leaves, stones, and twigs in simple or intricate patterns. Let your hands move intuitively. Let your breath slow. The act of collecting, sorting, and arranging becomes a meditative practice — a conversation between your nervous system and the land.

You might honor a particular tree, rock, or viewpoint as you create. When you offer attention and care to a place, something beautiful happens. That place begins to hold your memory, and each time you return, you’ll remember not just the art you made, but how you felt while making it. Over time, these small acts of creativity build relationship, reminding us that nature isn’t just a backdrop for our healing, but an active participant in it.

01/03/2026

It’s official! We have some amazing group opportunities in 2026. We’re excited to share the medicine of nature-based therapy with you!

Why Rites of Passage? In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven world, it can be easy to distance ourselves from nature and community. A rite of passage is a nature-based ceremony that allows us to profoundly reconnect with the natural world.

At Evolve In Nature, it looks like overnight camping or backpacking experiences designed to awaken, heal, and transform our lives. Participants are challenged to embark on a journey that calls them more deeply into their own selves. When we live with intention and purpose, we can better show up and care for ourselves, our friends and family, and the world around us.

Our website is host to a plethora of information. If you’d like to check out our offerings to see which one works best for you, navigate to our website>> https://www.evolveinnature.com/naturebasedprograms

All groups are limited to 8-10 participants, so reserve your spot now!

01/01/2026

As we look back on 2025, what if the measure of success this year was the amount of compassion and kindness we were able to offer ourselves and one another? For a moment forget about your productivity, the goal you set at the beginning of the year, or milestones you hoped to reach. 📈

This season invites review, which can easily be misunderstood as judgment. What if instead you only reviewed your year for how much you let others feel your heart, and how often you checked in with your own heart? ❤️

Simply pausing to take stock of how the year actually felt, how we showed up in moments of ease and in moments of strain, is meaningful in itself. When we remember the challenges we moved through — the uncertainty, the grief, the recalibrations — can we also remember the ways we met ourselves with care, patience, and respect? The times we softened instead of hardened. The moments we chose presence, repair, or gentleness. Holding ourselves in kindness as we reflect on how we navigated difficulty with grace and compassion may be one of the most impactful accomplishments of all.🪷

Happy New Year from your team at Evolve in Nature.

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