More about my way
I was privileged to spend my early childhood years in a house in the village, next to a wide field. During this time, nature was an inseparable part of me. So even when I was forced to leave, I continued to seek out the spaces to feel at home. Since then, to this day.Throughout my life, I have moved to several places, living on various lands. The feeling that nature felt like home and a place of refuge to me always returned to me. A place where I allow myself to rest, to be supported, to feel contained, to embrace my emotions.To be myself. To become stronger and filled with strength.
In my 20s, I went on several trips in the world that brought me closer to myself and deepened my listening and love for myself and people around me. During this period, I moved to live in the beautiful northern Galilee. After completing my studies in social work, I flew on a journey of over a year on different continents. I was privileged to learn from people and experiences, a lifestyle of simplicity and closeness to nature.At the end of the journey, life brought me to experience several years in urban places. The distance from nature frustrated and saddened me.The girl in me asked me to return to the open spaces. Those feelings paved my way in 2017 towards the path that had spoken to me for a long time - ecotherapy, therapy and guidance in nature. This approach felt most natural to me and I found a way to incorporate it in my work as a social worker in individual and group support over the years.
In 2020, the Corona period revealed to me that nature was waiting for my return.
I set out on a journey into the unknown, with the intention of listening deeply to the requests of my heart. I returned to a corner of nature that was my favorite during the time I lived in the Galilee, and I stayed there throughout the summer months. The natural space gave me the opportunity to let go of any hold.
I dared to ask deep life questions and believe that the answers were on their way to me. I explored myself and my vision of life in a variety of creative ways. I shed shells and defenses and opened attentive to natural movement.
The nature, the wonderful community of people and the inner child within me supported, embraced and planted in me the feeling that this was the right place for me. I decided to return to live in the northern wilderness, which required me to find tremendous strength to say goodbye to familiar ground, home, relationship, work. To pave a new path for myself.
This path led me to a renewed acquaintance with myself and life, to the recognition of the parts within me that sought space, to the possibility of pain, to release what was and to seek to discover the new. During these years, I was blessed with the fulfillment of my heart's desires to connect with myself and nature, with my partner and community, professional growth, to act from the soul, and accompanying the path of other people in these connections.
In October 2023, the earth trembled beneath our feet due to the war, and I found myself back on a journey to discover my inner home and the anchors that keep me and my faith alive. My man and I were in France, after a family trip and volunteering on a farm while our home became a war zone. We felt that our bodies and souls wanted to be in a safe place and decided to stay on the farm in France and then continued to a farm in Portugal. We felt that what was best for us during this time was to be surrounded by nature, connected to the earth and the body, healthy nutrition, breathing.
After wandering and exploring, we devoted ourselves to the journey with everything it brings, and happily we arrived at a place with wonderful community and a healing nature that embraced us and gave us a sense of home.
With great gratitude, I continued to accompany people online during this time in personal and group sessions. I felt that the universe allowed me to support others when I'm supporting myself and connecting to my anchors.
Slowly and step by step, I began to create nature therapy sessions on the beloved land of Portugal. Grateful for all the inner work over the years that supports me in times like these when it is so necessary, like air to breathe. Grateful for every day that I am healthy in body and soul, growing personally, as a couple, as a family, as a community and professionally. I feel that I have been and still am going through a constant journey, in which I grow and discover. I encounter in reality more and more journeys that leads me to continue strengthening the home that I am for myself. What supported me then and today are the same things that I make accessible to people on their journey - spending time in nature, listening inwardly, strengthening connections and anchors within and outside of me in a variety of ways.
