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Evolve In Nature, 1200 28th Street, Boulder, CO (2025)

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. 🌱

11/29/2025

This time of year is often about coming together. When we come together as community, family, or chosen family, we often share our stories 🍁 So, this year we ask: what’s your story? How would you tell your story around a fire if asked by your trusted community?

Storytelling is vital for us as humans for so many reasons. It reorients us toward collective healing. When we hear someone else's story, we are given a chance to reflect on our own experience. We often experience a sense of connection, community, being seen, validated and less alone.

Storytelling also challenges traditional power structures by re-centering all voices, especially the voices we don't often hear (voices of Indigenous, q***r, trans, black, brown, disabled and other voices pushed to the margins by systems of power.)

Storytelling offers an alternative framework for knowledge and existence outside of imperial logic. It serves as a tool for resistance, healing, and cultural preservation by prioritizing community, lived experience, and diverse ways of knowing over the dominant narratives.

Storytelling challenges the idea that there is only one version of history. Many Indigenous, African, and global-majority cultures transmit wisdom through story—oral tradition, myth, memory, ceremony, and collective experience. These forms of knowledge are often embodied, relational and land-based and carry moral, ecological and communal teachings while honoring the interconnectedness of people, the land and spirituality.

Storytelling is sometimes what we do in therapy as well. In being heard and seen by a trusted and compassionate other while we share the stories of our lives that may be joyous or challenging, we move toward healing together 🔥

11/27/2025

"Intimate relationships with oneself, others, and the natural world imbue life with beauty, connection, and joy; and beauty, connection, and joy possess the power to heal and buoy us all through life's difficulties."

Mr. Rogers once famously recalled that whenever he would see something frightening in life or in the news, his mother taught him to “look for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping.”

"She was implying that one is never infinitely alone and that caring is the antidote to pain and fear. When our Co-Founder Megan heard those words as a child, they sprouted seeds in her heart and over many years grew deep roots as she received and sought many “helpers” who taught her that the pleasure of mutuality is the only enduring balm.

At Evolve In Nature, this is our ethos and our dogma; it’s the heart from which we practice psychotherapy, entrusting the therapeutic relationship as an agent through which a legacy of love can be passed on. Regardless of the degrees of separation, finding yourself reading these words now, the threads of our lives have crossed, and you are part of this legacy of love. A legacy of this kind is reciprocal; although it may not be spoken, in some way, you have contributed to our lives, and we are deeply grateful.

May you take some time to reflect on the “helpers” in your life, and may you carry forward the legacy of loving relationship in your own beautiful, unique way - for yourself, for others, and for the world."

By Megan Newton, MA, LPC, CCTP, NCC

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11/22/2025

As some of our team members settle back into the office after guiding recent quests this week 🥾 ...we're thinking about the positive effects that rites of passage have on our youth, adolescent years, as well as our young and older adulthood years.

The truth is, rites of passage happen all of the time and at any age. Maybe it was your quinceañera, when you finally passed your drivers license test, when you graduated from an educational program... or your first kiss. Maybe a major rite of passage for you was when you adopted, watched the birth of (or birthed yourself) your first child. Maybe it was "coming out" to yourself, to your family (if that felt safe and accessible), or to your community 🏳️‍🌈 For cyclical bleeding bodies, the onset of menstruation as well as the cessation of menstruation during menopause are deeply felt rites of passage. All of these experiences happen in our daily lives and the lives of those around us. 💭 Can you think of more? Comment below!

If you feel like you didn't have rites of passage experiences that felt meaningful to you as a teen or adult-- can you grant yourself the time and space to ritualize and offer yourself the symbol of the coming of age ceremony you wish you had?

If you are interested in future groups or trips, please email us at info@evolveinnature.com so we can add you to our notification list! Upcoming quests are also detailed in our monthly newsletter. To subscribe, navigate to our website (Link in Bio👆🏼) and scroll to the bottom of any page!

11/19/2025

Brené Brown says it best in her research about healing in community, reminding us that connection is our greatest need — and vulnerability is the way there. According to Brown, shame thrives in fear of disconnection. But when we lean into our fear, and choose empathy, courage, and compassion, we build shame resilience.

This is exactly what we do in therapy. Real healing happens when we reveal to another regulated human what we fear might be too much, too shameful, or too vulnerable for anyone else to hold, and are met with unconditional positive regard ♡

🪷We're here to remind you that your vulnerability is more than okay. It's what our national and global community needs to heal. When we share what is on our hearts and minds, we come together as community.

Link in bio to schedule a discovery session or book with one of our therapists. We're here to support you within a community of care.

11/14/2025

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, an author, psychoanalyst, and storyteller wrote an essay entitled, "Do not lose heart, We were made for these times"

Here, she writes, "Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good...

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale." ♡ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

May this be a reminder that we can only mend what’s within reach, and that’s enough. By releasing the impulse to "save the world," we promote self-care within challenging times and avoid inevitable burnout— in doing so, we remind others to focus on the part of their world that is within reach, rather than carrying the weight of the whole world on their shoulders🌏♡

11/13/2025

At Evolve In Nature, we offer group therapy for folks who grew up with parents or caregivers with problematic alcohol or substance use, regardless of how well-functioning or non-functioning they were under the influence. This group will support you to acknowledge both what happened and what didn't happen in your family system, and it will provide you with tools and skills for healing now.

The above behaviors come from Janet G. Woititz’s foundational work, Adult Children of Alcoholics (1983), where she describes 13 common emotional and behavioral patterns seen in adults who grew up in families affected by alcoholism or other forms of dysfunction. These behaviors explained:

1️⃣ Guessing at normal: Because their childhood environment was unpredictable or chaotic, adult children of alcoholic parents often lacked consistent models of healthy behavior. They grew up adapting to instability, secrecy, or denial, so as adults, they may struggle to recognize what “normal” looks like in relationships, emotions, or daily functioning. (Woititz, 1983)

2️⃣ Extreme loyalty: Because love and harm often coexist in such families, adult children may internalize the belief that love means staying, fixing, or enduring, no matter what. This leads to repeating unhealthy loyalty patterns in adult relationships: staying in jobs, friendships, or partnerships long after they’ve become damaging (Woititz, 1983)

Read all 13 characteristics on our blog. If any of these characteristics apply to you or to someone you love, please reach out for individual or group therapy. Several of our therapists at Evolve In Nature are highly trained in therapy for adults who grew up in alcoholic, narcissistic, and/or dysfunctional households.

Link in Bio 👆🏼to navigate to our contact page to register for our Level 1 therapy group Beginning November 13 2025, 14 meetings; every other Thursday, 6:00 - 7:30 pm MST, in-person! Pricing on website.

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