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Evolve In Nature, 1200 28th Street, Boulder, CO (2026)

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.

12/27/2025

📝Note to self: You deserve all the love you give and more 💗

You're allowed to take time for yourself. You're allowed time to rest, relax and reset. You've done enough. Even taking 1-2 minutes for "you" is enough. Watering your own garden will help you continue to water the other gardens in your life. That same care belongs to you, too.

You don’t need to earn rest, softness, or nourishment. You are allowed to invest in your own growth, joy, and healing while loving others deeply. Both can exist at once. It isn’t selfish or indulgent. It’s an act of relationship, reciprocity, and sustainability. In a world that often asks us to overextend, self-tending becomes a way of honoring your limits and aliveness—it's a commitment to showing up with your whole self ♻

Tend what’s yours with the same reverence you offer outward. Your care is powerful.

12/25/2025

Let's face it... The holidays are not always merry and bright. The holiday season can bring up a wide range of emotions—some might be expected yet many emotions that surface when these days roll around come out of the blue 🎁

Alongside moments of warmth or connection, this season can also stir painful memories, uncomfortable somatic experiences, emotional flashbacks and low-mood. There might be a quiet longing for a childhood you didn’t get to have, guilt that you can't show up for family how they expect, comparisons, competition, or grief for a loved one you once shared these days with. ❄️

These responses are normal and human. Seasons of gathering, reflection, and ritual often resurface old layers of memory, trauma, attachment, and loss —especially if we’re asked to perform joy or togetherness.

Let’s normalize these experiences and make room for the full emotional spectrum during this time of year. Let’s support those of us who experience the holidays differently. Can we show up for ourselves and others with gentleness instead of trying to shift challenging emotions into merriment?

What's one step you can take toward embracing all of your emotions? You’re allowed to move at your own pace, set boundaries, and tend to what’s true for you.
You’re not alone—and support is here if you need it.

12/19/2025

How would you view the stranger standing in line at Trident in front of you ☕️ or the human who snagged the open seat on the bus next to you 🚌 if you considered the humanity of their lived experience in terms their rites of passage?

We’ve each been through a lot in life. It’s unlikely that we have made it this far without pain, suffering, unhappiness, or loss. Likewise, each of us has experienced joy, tears, laughter and celebration. Rites of passage happen all of the time and at any age. They’re the journeys we’ve been on physically and mentally that have helped us arrive at our current state of being. They’re not always kind, graceful or easy.

These influential times are formative for each of us and they’re as unique as we are. What weaves a common thread through each is how tightly weaved the experiences are into the fabric of our lives.

Consider again the stranger nearby… Can you imagine all of the loss, grief, or heart-centered moments they have encountered? What about those yet to come? Consider next how your heart responds when reflecting on these imaginary scenarios. Do you feel more compassion for them? How about for yourself? While we can never truly know what another has experienced, we can humble ourselves by remembering that we all share common humanity.

12/18/2025

Pete Walker LMFT, author of the book "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" describes the little-known phenomena of Emotional Flashbacks...

Walker describes these moments as times when the nervous system re-enters a past emotional state from childhood trauma. These flashbacks usually occur without images, stories, or conscious recall. Because they're void of direct memories, images or stories, it's harder to recognize when you're in an Emotional Flashback. Within them, you may be reacting from a younger part of you, who is not in this present moment.

Common signs of Emotional Flashbacks:
• Sudden shame or worthlessness
• Fear of abandonment or conflict
• Intense self-criticism
• Urge to withdraw, appease, or freeze

It's important to understand and reframe these flashbacks as survival mechanisms to reduce self-blame when we catch ourselves in these states. Emotional Flashbacks aren’t overreactions—they’re learned survival responses that once kept us safe as younger people navigating challenging dynamics.

With support, these states can soften and you don’t have to navigate them alone. Healing emotional flashbacks often involves grounding the body, orienting to the present, and slowly building inner safety and self-compassion... recognizing that in this now-moment, we are not helpless, alone or incapable.

12/13/2025

In honor of December's Giving Tuesday and Colorado Gives day, Evolve in Nature invites our community to be a part of someone receiving mental health services or wilderness-guided programs!

We invite folks to donate to our scholarship fund where 100% of the donation funds received go directly into a scholarship fund that is used for anyone wanting to obtain group therapy or guided nature-based programs at Evolve in Nature and cannot otherwise afford it. When you donate, you can select which Group Therapy, Wilderness or Quest program you’d like your funds applied to.

If you have grown and healed through your time with Evolve In Nature, consider paying it forward and offering the same opportunity to more members of our community.

Follow the link in our bio to navigate to our website and donate to our scholarship fund today! 👆🏼

Additionally, we invite you to drop off any light to moderately used backpacking gear to support scholarship recipients. However, please exclude clothing from your donation. Thank you from Evolve in Nature.

12/10/2025

Combating your inner critic starts with small acts of kindness toward self. Here is one simple practice you can try this week to start to reinforce the memory of your good qualities alongside that critical voice...

♡write down a few of your amazing inner qualities—your groundedness, your humor, your intelligence, your tenderness, that you're a great cook or you love your own eyes!
♡ Put the list somewhere you’ll actually see it: on your mirror, the fridge, your front door. You can even set a reminder in your phone with a little note to self.
♡ Think of it as a love note to yourself. Remember that we don't have to wait for someone else to validate or affirm us, we can give this love to ourselves just as easily.

These little reminders can help soften the self-judgment and reorient us toward who we truly are— our good qualities that we often forget— instead of who our critic tells us we are 🌿

12/06/2025

🪷An altar can be an invocation to sanctify or symbolize what you value, and the act of creating altars can become a ritual in itself. An altar can be an external reminder of what is meaningful in your life, or even support your nervous system for calm and grounding.

Altar making is a cross-culturally present and surprisingly universal ancestral practice that's witnessed on nearly every continent today and in ancient times.

Many of us, perhaps you, keep the tradition alive today. Historically and presently, altars help us honor our journey and our loved ones– alive or departed.

Altars help us give gratitude and invoke blessings from the earth or religious figures by coming into relationship with what we value.

Whatever our intention in creating an altar, by making one, we engage in a cross-cultural human behavior which opens the door for us to explore this practice as a form of grounding, honoring, life integration, and meaning-making. 📿

This post is an except from our December 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👆🏼

12/03/2025

🌿We’re so grateful to welcome Lisi Kemptom (she/her/hers) as our new Clinical Office Manager at Evolve In Nature

Lisi brings a unique blend of steadiness, soul, and systems thinking to our team. With a deep love for nature and over two decades of experience supporting purpose-driven organizations, she offers a grounded, heart-centered approach to leadership and care.

Her commitment to both personal and collective healing shines through in everything she touches — from creating supportive environments for clinicians to tending the behind-the-scenes structures that help our work flow with ease.

Lisi's role blends organization with soul, ensuring that our team can stay focused on the deeply transformative work we’re here to do. We’re honored to have her guiding and supporting the heart of our operations. Please help us welcome her to the EIN community. 🌱

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