Sarah Abu-Absi, Mind-Body Coach + Forest Therapy Guide

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Sarah Abu-Absi, Mind-Body Coach + Forest Therapy Guide

Let's (re)connect to nature and ourselves with curiosity and compassion.

10/31/2025

This might be my last public forest therapy of the season. (Hit me up for private or organizational sessions, though!)

Come fortify yourself so you can continue the good work, community care, resistance, Earth tending, and straight up surviving so many of you are doing so valiantly.

Register thru

Hope to see you 🍂🍁🤎

10/29/2025

I had the privilege to guide a group of people here at earlier this week.

One person shared after the guided sensory meditation that they found themselves saying like:

“This is my home. I am home.”

Even though their parents aren’t from here and they might have other reasons to feel excluded or different.

Everyone belongs in nature. Everyone belongs where they are.

It’s easy to forget that, or to think it but not *feel* it in your bones.

A big reason I keep guiding forest therapy, even when it feels against the grain or an uphill journey, is to help people feel in their body and bones that THEY BELONG. In nature. On Earth. In this moment, wherever you are.

You belong.

You are home.

10/14/2025

Yesterday I got to be in the presence of one of my heroes, , as she launched the to counter the destructive cry of “Drill Baby Drill.”

I found myself in tears as she talked about the need for this work — the isolation, overwhelm and powerlessness so many of us feel in response to the destruction of the Earth (and its people).

But also the LOVE we feel for the Earth. The Earth provides so much — food, medicine, teachings, and sanctity, as she put it.

What does the Earth ask of us in return?

This is the question that I ask of people in forest therapy (directly and indirectly). And we each can answer that in many ways, big and small.

But/and — how fun and special is it to have a common goal?? A goal that is not only about HEALING THE LAND, but also about BUILDING COMMUNITY and GROWING POWER.

She made the important point that this work happens at the individual level and must also happen at the systemic level. Building community around healing the land also builds power around protecting each other, especially those most vulnerable to the power-hungry, which feels extra important now.

Thank you to and for this invitation and your continued partnership and leadership in healing the land, building community and growing power.

09/24/2025

Quick shout-out to the people and organizations that keep inviting me to help them slow down and (re)connect to the Earth, in a world where it's harder (but more needed) than ever to prioritize.

In the past few months, I've gotten to guide large organizations, school groups, small friend-groups, couples, and 1:1 clients.

THANK YOU for your support and for re-igniting your love for the Earth (and carrying that forward)!

Reach out anytime to see how I can guide you or your group in a customized forest bathing experience.

09/17/2025

Thank you to the for hosting me to guide some moonlight mindfulness inspired by forest therapy / forest bathing.

Sign up via Evanston Parks and Rec. Code 133146.

Or call 847.448.8256 to register.

Comment or message me if you’re coming or with any questions!

09/09/2025

Come do some forest therapy with me (1pm!) and meet some cool people and enjoy good food and music and support an amazing organization !!!

If money is an issue but you still want to come, LMK !!

08/21/2025

The world opens up to you when you get still outside in nature.

07/10/2025

I may be on social media less*, but I'm out in the forest and prairies and parks and preserves and lakefront guiding forest therapy as much as ever.

I'm so thankful for my clients and partners that prioritize being / connecting / rest / mindfulness when we have so many other pulls on our attention (and when we need it the most).

Shout out to my partners from the last couple of months, including Northwestern University, Healing Lake County Collaborative, SUM, Evanston Parks and Rec, and my private clients - I'm so grateful for you!

Reach out to me anytime if you want to join me, and we'll figure out a way to make it happen.

*I'm on social media less for many reasons, including but not limited to:

1. My new role with Lin Health as a pain recovery coach is keeping me busier!

2. I do not like selling or being sold to, and more and more social media is just that. I want to grow my forest therapy reach via relationships, not imposing a scarcity mindset like so much marketing does. (And the amount of targeted ads telling me I'm not good enough as I am, especially as a middle-aged woman, is astounding.)

3. I often feel like I'm talking into the void on social media. I'd rather talk to the person in front of me.

4. My teens are home for summer break and I want to hang out with them when they want to hang out with me!

5. vibes.

07/09/2025

I’m excited to share that I’ve started working as a Pain Recovery Coach at Lin Health.

I will continue to guide forest therapy, as well as see my own pain recovery clients, so don't hesitate to reach out to me about either!

Working with Lin will allow me to increase my impact, see a broader range of clients (Lin accepts insurance!), spend less time marketing (my least favorite part of what I do), and expand my access to resources, peers, and leadership in this groundbreaking field.

I'm super grateful for this opportunity and to be a part of this compassionate, groundbreaking team.

Reach out to me if you're interested in learning more!

06/06/2025

These are actual things I've heard from people that I guided in forest therapy.

For most of these, I hear different versions of them over and over again (just not the novel one, but I loved that).

It can be hard to prioritize stepping away from our busy lives and busy minds to check in with ourselves, but it's so necessary.

(You can join me this Saturday (via Evanston Parks and Rec) or schedule a private forest therapy experience. DM me with any questions :))

05/20/2025

Settle Into Summer with me
at one of my favorite gems in the city
Harbert-Payne Park

Saturday June 7th
9am

Register through the City of Evanston Parks and Recreation
Activity Code 123136

05/15/2025

Grateful for another collaboration with our amazing public libraries (aren't libraries the best?) -- this time with Deerfield Public Library.

Maybe you want to ask your favorite librarian to partner with me to bring to you and your fellow library-lovers?

It's so great.

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Evanston, IL

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http://www.thatforestfeeling.com/

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