Hi, my name is Gerrie, I live in the Netherlands. I love walking in nature and nature journaling. I'm very interested in plants and their healing powers. I live by the rythm of the seasons and the moon. I also like to read and write. I just absolutely love your posts here on Substack. I mostly subscribes out of curiousity about the moon journaling circle. Hope to meet you there soon. Love ❤️🙏 Gerrie.
Remember me? We met at The Sharpham Trust in Sept 2024. You were one of the course leaders. I attended the Nature-based Mindfulness Meditation 6-day residential course. It was great to meet you. I loved stuffing my nostrils with herbs in one memorable class led by you in the garden 😀
On the last night, round the camp fire, I led the group in an unforgettable rendition of 'Edelweiss' from the Sound of Music. It really bonded the group together.
We both share a love of poetry and journaling. I learnt about herbs and nature during the retreat and I owe this to you.
I'm preparing for a 45-minute lunchtime song recital for the Arts Festival in August 2025 @ St Michael's Church, Beccles, Suffolk. The theme is songs for Nature Love and Beyond! I'm a Mezzo-soprano in case you're wondering. I love how music is so powerful and connects people from all cultures.
I'm born and bred in Bristol and as part of my job role, I lead a guided (F2F) Mindfulness Meditation once a month for the well-being of staff. I love ❤️ it!
I'm looking forward to being part of this very special community and reading your poetry and books. Your story telling is magical! Long may you reign! Oh wild goddess of the woods.
My name is Paul. I live off grid in a wee cabin in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. I facilitate connection through rhythm and use a local venue for my work as well as travelling to many lands to do the same.
I have 'scribbled' on and off in my 61 years, some poetry, some thoughts on presence in rhythm.
Your words found their way into my world and I enjoy very much your weaving of them. I think there is much I can learn here.
I have recently come across your writing after looking into a retreat in Devon at Sharpham which you were facilitating, I couldn’t make the retreat work last year but it’s firmly on my bucket list!
I’m a mum of 3 young boys , I am a born and bred Londoner and am based now in East London. I have a passion for nature and try to weave time outdoors and making anything with my kids in the woods and marshes near us as much as possible. I am a trained Art Psychotherapist and work with parents/ cadets and children together aswell as in a school. At the moment I’m planting the seeds to work more outdoors in my local community. I’ve absolutely loved your words and these have felt like a balm and inspiration. I love making art in its many forms and struggle to carve out time to do this but when I do feel the benefits;)
Hi Emma, wow our lives sound like they have many similar threads running through them.
I have three boys and I used to live in Hoxton square. I also trained at goldsmiths as an art psychotherapist before training in wilderness psychotherapy for the same pull you describe of wanting to take the work outside and connect people.
The retreats at sharpham are beautiful, especially the woodland ones, the five night ones are quite a deep dive. There is wonderful burserys at sharpham too.
Hello Brigit, I love your writing and find it resonates with my soul. I am learning to connect more deeply with the earth, sea, sky and all living beings which is bringing so much joy to me. Thank you
Good morning, Brigit. I have so enjoyed your writing for a long time, so it's about time I subscribed to see more. For two years I facilitated a mindfulness/gardening program inside two CA state prisons, with 25 men in each group (https://insightgardenprogram.org/). In addition to growing vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and herbs, I was able to share about plant medicine, mushrooms, composting, ecosystems, and much more. Our program was located at the chapel and sweat lodge, so we grew sage and other plants for sweat lodge rituals. It was such a blessing to work with these men, and I often shared your writing and images with them in handouts they could savor after class. So, I want to thank you for that and for always providing so much thoughtfulness, beauty and inspiration in your offerings.
I'm Runa, and I live in NW Oregon. I have been in love with nature since I was small, relishing in forests, mountains, oceans, deserts, prairies alike, and have fallen in love with herbal medicine. Lately I have been exploring energetics and deepening my relationships with plant kindred and life all over the place, seen and unseen. I work with marginalized groups of wonderful people, I live the best I can according to the season, I speak and listen to the plants and trees, I'm a mom of an adult autistic, I love being witchy, I seem to always be making medicines, I am always learning about my ancestors, I love ritual, I enjoy writing and am helping my father write his memoir, I knit and crochet and quilt and stitch. In the morning I read while having coffee, and your posts are part of that morning ritual.
Hello! I am Megan. I grew up in Vermont in the woods and I so humbled and grateful for our earth and animal friends. I moved to Florida recently and love being by the ocean but miss the quiet of my forests. I am a psychotherapist and lovey clients but also pay very close attention to my own healing to stay in the giving cycle. I use traditions and rituals to do this. Thank you for this community.
Hi Megan, lovely to meet you here, I can just imagine the forest in Vermont, wow! I love that forest peace too. And I can imagine the beauty of the ocean you are near too. So lovely. 🌳🌲🌊
Hi, I'm Sarah. I live in Devon. I have enjoyed your posts on Facebook which is what has drawn me here.
I am a mother and a writer trying to live my life gently. I write about eco-friendly living, reducing plastic and zero-waste. I've always loved nature but in recent years I feel I've really connected with the natural world and am living in sync with the seasons. I love reading your writing as so much resonates.
Hi , lovely to be here , thank you Brigit . My name is Sarah . I'm living in the south of Ireland with my 18 year old daughter . I grew up in a lovely wild valley where we were given a lot of freedom to roam and explore as kids . The valley is part of me now . The only thing missing was more knowledge about the plants ..I wish I had known or was shown as a kid things like what you so wonderfully gift us in your writings. Someday, in the not too distant future, I hope, I'd love to be part of something that helps more kids access this kind of awareness about the natural world around them .
Hello Sarah and welcome! Such a beautiful thing to know the land as part of you. What a wonderful plan/dream/goal too, I love that. Offering to others what you are aware would have supported you and in doing it, you will support the earth too, as when children connect in deeper ways such as knowing the plants, they will want to protect the earth when they are older. Thanks for being here xx
I'm so excited to read your upcoming book, I've already pre-ordered my copy! I found you a few years back on Instagram and your work has stayed with me, my accounts over there have been dormant since last November and are due to be permanently deleted any day now so I'm really glad to have found you again here on Substack ✨
I'm Laura, I write fortnightly at two separate publications that centre around the same thing: returning to wholeness. An Ode to Devotion is my personal Substack where I share reveries and reflections on life and word weaving and excerpts of my memoir that is currently on submission in the UK, Becoming: A Psychedelic Search for Wholeness in a Fragmented World. It is my intention to also use the space I'm carving out here to explore the potential entheogens hold for healing and share my own experience of nurturing a gentle, embodied relationship with psilocybin. My other publication, The Whole Woman, houses my offerings for women: an oracle deck and a guided journey that will provide a small, intimate online space to dive deeper into the concepts of the cards.
I'm currently approaching a season of pretty intense change. Alongside mothering and home educating three children I am about to embark on a part-time degree in Psychology. Right now, I'm finding peace in being in communion with nature, harvesting herbs to make different teas depending on the season and my mood, a handful of deep and meaningful friendships and reading gentle and generous words written by yourself and others.
Hello Laura! Thank you so much!! I cant wait to finish it and for it to be out next year.
Sounds like you are exploring a whole range of things in beautiful ways and offering great beauty and inspiration too. I hope youre degree goes well and your book births with ease and you keep drinking those herbs.
Hi Brigit. Happy to meet you. Thanks for the invitation to share. My name is Mary. I love to garden and spend time outside. I also love to read and write. I teach creative writing to teenagers and adults and I’m an instructional coach. I am seeking connection in all things so I was attracted to your Substack. I write a Substack on Sundays. Here is one I wrote about connecting with the creatures around us and building a backyard habitat. https://pocketfulofprose.substack.com/p/may-it-break-your-heart
My name is Valerie and I’ve enjoyed your writing for some time. I particularly love reflecting on the seasons, as well as your writing about plants. I’ve been interested in herbs for many years, and, although I’m not a herbalist, I’ve grown a good number of these plants in many different gardens. I read a lot, keep in touch with friends and family and enjoy arts and crafts. As an elder, ‘How do we best live now?’ is a question I find myself occupied with, in full knowledge of the unfolding planetary crisis which we are bequeathing to future generations.
So lovely to meet you here! What a potent question that you hold, a question I can imagine keeps you alive to your heart and soul. A question I often ask myself lately, is am I living in the way that will help me to die well? And also what am I doing now that makes good soil for the ones to come?
Thanks for bringing these questions here and much wild goodness to you.
Brigit, I don’t remember how I found you but you write beautifully, which is why I keep coming back.
I am an Anishinaabe storyteller with a couple books of poetry out and a third book, this one nonfiction, due out about this time next year. I’ve just been chosen as the Montana Poet Laureate too, a post I will hold for two years, which is quite exciting.
Hi Chris, I’ve really enjoyed your words, such a sense of gentleness mixed with earthy softness and strength. Im going to get your books, now I know of them too. It’s such a beautifully amazing thing you have achieved and Im glad I know of your work and I can just imagine the wonderful seeds your work will grow into people and the world.
Hi! I love your writings and they inspire me to muster up the courage to write more! I share many of your writings in my yoga classes and on retreats. Thank you for sharing your gifts ❤️
Hi, my name is Gerrie, I live in the Netherlands. I love walking in nature and nature journaling. I'm very interested in plants and their healing powers. I live by the rythm of the seasons and the moon. I also like to read and write. I just absolutely love your posts here on Substack. I mostly subscribes out of curiousity about the moon journaling circle. Hope to meet you there soon. Love ❤️🙏 Gerrie.
Hi Brigit, 👋
Remember me? We met at The Sharpham Trust in Sept 2024. You were one of the course leaders. I attended the Nature-based Mindfulness Meditation 6-day residential course. It was great to meet you. I loved stuffing my nostrils with herbs in one memorable class led by you in the garden 😀
On the last night, round the camp fire, I led the group in an unforgettable rendition of 'Edelweiss' from the Sound of Music. It really bonded the group together.
We both share a love of poetry and journaling. I learnt about herbs and nature during the retreat and I owe this to you.
I'm preparing for a 45-minute lunchtime song recital for the Arts Festival in August 2025 @ St Michael's Church, Beccles, Suffolk. The theme is songs for Nature Love and Beyond! I'm a Mezzo-soprano in case you're wondering. I love how music is so powerful and connects people from all cultures.
I'm born and bred in Bristol and as part of my job role, I lead a guided (F2F) Mindfulness Meditation once a month for the well-being of staff. I love ❤️ it!
I'm looking forward to being part of this very special community and reading your poetry and books. Your story telling is magical! Long may you reign! Oh wild goddess of the woods.
Best wishes,
Sarah
Hello Brigit
My name is Paul. I live off grid in a wee cabin in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. I facilitate connection through rhythm and use a local venue for my work as well as travelling to many lands to do the same.
I have 'scribbled' on and off in my 61 years, some poetry, some thoughts on presence in rhythm.
Your words found their way into my world and I enjoy very much your weaving of them. I think there is much I can learn here.
Hello Brigit
I have recently come across your writing after looking into a retreat in Devon at Sharpham which you were facilitating, I couldn’t make the retreat work last year but it’s firmly on my bucket list!
I’m a mum of 3 young boys , I am a born and bred Londoner and am based now in East London. I have a passion for nature and try to weave time outdoors and making anything with my kids in the woods and marshes near us as much as possible. I am a trained Art Psychotherapist and work with parents/ cadets and children together aswell as in a school. At the moment I’m planting the seeds to work more outdoors in my local community. I’ve absolutely loved your words and these have felt like a balm and inspiration. I love making art in its many forms and struggle to carve out time to do this but when I do feel the benefits;)
Love and light
Emma
Hi Brigit
Ha! That’s so amazing all those threads wow! Mums of 3 boys too! I also trained at Goldsmiths.
I would love to hear more about where and how you trained in Wilderness therapy!? That sounds very special.
I will re look at the retreats for Sharpham this year. I’m wondering about the bursaries il take a look.
I am loving the circle and have been away and missed it. I saw that you hurt yourself I’m so sorry, hope to see you today but perhaps your healing.
Much warmth too
Emma
Hi Emma, wow our lives sound like they have many similar threads running through them.
I have three boys and I used to live in Hoxton square. I also trained at goldsmiths as an art psychotherapist before training in wilderness psychotherapy for the same pull you describe of wanting to take the work outside and connect people.
The retreats at sharpham are beautiful, especially the woodland ones, the five night ones are quite a deep dive. There is wonderful burserys at sharpham too.
So lovely meet you, and so glad you’re here
Much warmth
Brigit
Hello Brigit, I love your writing and find it resonates with my soul. I am learning to connect more deeply with the earth, sea, sky and all living beings which is bringing so much joy to me. Thank you
Beautiful ♥️
Good morning, Brigit. I have so enjoyed your writing for a long time, so it's about time I subscribed to see more. For two years I facilitated a mindfulness/gardening program inside two CA state prisons, with 25 men in each group (https://insightgardenprogram.org/). In addition to growing vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and herbs, I was able to share about plant medicine, mushrooms, composting, ecosystems, and much more. Our program was located at the chapel and sweat lodge, so we grew sage and other plants for sweat lodge rituals. It was such a blessing to work with these men, and I often shared your writing and images with them in handouts they could savor after class. So, I want to thank you for that and for always providing so much thoughtfulness, beauty and inspiration in your offerings.
I'm Runa, and I live in NW Oregon. I have been in love with nature since I was small, relishing in forests, mountains, oceans, deserts, prairies alike, and have fallen in love with herbal medicine. Lately I have been exploring energetics and deepening my relationships with plant kindred and life all over the place, seen and unseen. I work with marginalized groups of wonderful people, I live the best I can according to the season, I speak and listen to the plants and trees, I'm a mom of an adult autistic, I love being witchy, I seem to always be making medicines, I am always learning about my ancestors, I love ritual, I enjoy writing and am helping my father write his memoir, I knit and crochet and quilt and stitch. In the morning I read while having coffee, and your posts are part of that morning ritual.
Hello! I am Megan. I grew up in Vermont in the woods and I so humbled and grateful for our earth and animal friends. I moved to Florida recently and love being by the ocean but miss the quiet of my forests. I am a psychotherapist and lovey clients but also pay very close attention to my own healing to stay in the giving cycle. I use traditions and rituals to do this. Thank you for this community.
Hi Megan, lovely to meet you here, I can just imagine the forest in Vermont, wow! I love that forest peace too. And I can imagine the beauty of the ocean you are near too. So lovely. 🌳🌲🌊
Hi, I'm Sarah. I live in Devon. I have enjoyed your posts on Facebook which is what has drawn me here.
I am a mother and a writer trying to live my life gently. I write about eco-friendly living, reducing plastic and zero-waste. I've always loved nature but in recent years I feel I've really connected with the natural world and am living in sync with the seasons. I love reading your writing as so much resonates.
My blog is: https://www.rhubarbandrunnerbeans.co.uk/ but I'm mostly active on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rhubarbandrunnerbeans
Hi Sarah and welcome!
Sounds like you explore some interesting and inspiring subjects, I look forward to looking at your blog ☘️🍃
Hi , lovely to be here , thank you Brigit . My name is Sarah . I'm living in the south of Ireland with my 18 year old daughter . I grew up in a lovely wild valley where we were given a lot of freedom to roam and explore as kids . The valley is part of me now . The only thing missing was more knowledge about the plants ..I wish I had known or was shown as a kid things like what you so wonderfully gift us in your writings. Someday, in the not too distant future, I hope, I'd love to be part of something that helps more kids access this kind of awareness about the natural world around them .
Hello Sarah and welcome! Such a beautiful thing to know the land as part of you. What a wonderful plan/dream/goal too, I love that. Offering to others what you are aware would have supported you and in doing it, you will support the earth too, as when children connect in deeper ways such as knowing the plants, they will want to protect the earth when they are older. Thanks for being here xx
I'm so excited to read your upcoming book, I've already pre-ordered my copy! I found you a few years back on Instagram and your work has stayed with me, my accounts over there have been dormant since last November and are due to be permanently deleted any day now so I'm really glad to have found you again here on Substack ✨
I'm Laura, I write fortnightly at two separate publications that centre around the same thing: returning to wholeness. An Ode to Devotion is my personal Substack where I share reveries and reflections on life and word weaving and excerpts of my memoir that is currently on submission in the UK, Becoming: A Psychedelic Search for Wholeness in a Fragmented World. It is my intention to also use the space I'm carving out here to explore the potential entheogens hold for healing and share my own experience of nurturing a gentle, embodied relationship with psilocybin. My other publication, The Whole Woman, houses my offerings for women: an oracle deck and a guided journey that will provide a small, intimate online space to dive deeper into the concepts of the cards.
I'm currently approaching a season of pretty intense change. Alongside mothering and home educating three children I am about to embark on a part-time degree in Psychology. Right now, I'm finding peace in being in communion with nature, harvesting herbs to make different teas depending on the season and my mood, a handful of deep and meaningful friendships and reading gentle and generous words written by yourself and others.
Hello Laura! Thank you so much!! I cant wait to finish it and for it to be out next year.
Sounds like you are exploring a whole range of things in beautiful ways and offering great beauty and inspiration too. I hope youre degree goes well and your book births with ease and you keep drinking those herbs.
Much love and wild beauty to you xx
Thanks so much Brigit, do let me know where is best to send the chapters when you get the chance ♥️
Hi Brigit. Happy to meet you. Thanks for the invitation to share. My name is Mary. I love to garden and spend time outside. I also love to read and write. I teach creative writing to teenagers and adults and I’m an instructional coach. I am seeking connection in all things so I was attracted to your Substack. I write a Substack on Sundays. Here is one I wrote about connecting with the creatures around us and building a backyard habitat. https://pocketfulofprose.substack.com/p/may-it-break-your-heart
Hi Mary
Lovely to meet you here and I look forward to looking at your Sunday post about building a garden habitat. Aren’t gardens beautiful!
Xx
Brigit - I can’t open the link. Anyone else having a problem?
Glad you got there in the end! X
My name is Valerie and I’ve enjoyed your writing for some time. I particularly love reflecting on the seasons, as well as your writing about plants. I’ve been interested in herbs for many years, and, although I’m not a herbalist, I’ve grown a good number of these plants in many different gardens. I read a lot, keep in touch with friends and family and enjoy arts and crafts. As an elder, ‘How do we best live now?’ is a question I find myself occupied with, in full knowledge of the unfolding planetary crisis which we are bequeathing to future generations.
So lovely to meet you here! What a potent question that you hold, a question I can imagine keeps you alive to your heart and soul. A question I often ask myself lately, is am I living in the way that will help me to die well? And also what am I doing now that makes good soil for the ones to come?
Thanks for bringing these questions here and much wild goodness to you.
Brigit xx
And those are very potent questions too!
Brigit, I don’t remember how I found you but you write beautifully, which is why I keep coming back.
I am an Anishinaabe storyteller with a couple books of poetry out and a third book, this one nonfiction, due out about this time next year. I’ve just been chosen as the Montana Poet Laureate too, a post I will hold for two years, which is quite exciting.
Hi Chris, I’ve really enjoyed your words, such a sense of gentleness mixed with earthy softness and strength. Im going to get your books, now I know of them too. It’s such a beautifully amazing thing you have achieved and Im glad I know of your work and I can just imagine the wonderful seeds your work will grow into people and the world.
Much wild wonderment to you
Brigit xx
Hi! I love your writings and they inspire me to muster up the courage to write more! I share many of your writings in my yoga classes and on retreats. Thank you for sharing your gifts ❤️
Thank you so much! Im glad it has sown a seed in you to write more, it can be such a balm and a beautiful way to connect to something deeper within.
Thanks for being here and introducing yourself.
Much wildness and writing energy to you
Brigit xx