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Central Ohio’s first forest therapy sanctuary 🌿 Renewing kinship between people and nature through guided experiences, conservation & wellness—inviting healing in every season.

09/01/2026

What happens when we slow down enough to really listen? 🌿

This September, Buds in Bloom is joining guides and communities around the world for the International Forest Bathing & SoundWalk Weekend, a global collaboration between the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) and Quiet Parks International (QPI).

On Sunday, September 13, I’ll be guiding an intimate Soundwalk here at Buds in Bloom—moving slowly through meadow, forest, creek & waterfall and exploring the art of deep listening.

There will be walking. There will be stillness. There will be silence.

And there will be sounds we can’t control—and don’t need to.

This isn’t about identifying every sound or finding perfect quiet. It’s about becoming quiet enough to notice what is already here.

🌿 Sunday, September 13
🕙 10:00–11:30 AM
📍 Buds in Bloom | Canal Wi******er, Ohio
💚 $15 | Limited to 8 participants

The Reel above shows you exactly how to find the event and reserve your spot, along with what to know before joining us.

Come curious. Come open. Come listen.

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I’m joining the International Forest Bathing & Soundwalk Weekend.On 13 September, I’ll be guiding a Soundwalk at Buds in...
08/31/2026

I’m joining the International Forest Bathing & Soundwalk Weekend.

On 13 September, I’ll be guiding a Soundwalk at Buds in Bloom in Central Ohio, joining guides and communities around the world for a shared weekend of slowing down, listening and reconnecting with the living
world.

📍 Buds in Bloom, 9375 Slough Rd., Canal Wi******er, OH 43110
📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026
🕐 10-11:30AM

You’re invited to join me.

Find out more and join this walk:
https://www.budsinbloomwellness.com/event-details/soundwalk-at-buds-in-bloom

Listen to the Living World.

08/28/2026

Before we listen to the landscape, we begin by noticing ourselves within it.

My breath.

The meadow.

And the sounds we make together.

Then, perhaps, we begin to listen a little deeper.
What do you hear?

We often think of nature as a place we go to feel better.But what if the relationship goes both ways?At Buds in Bloom, w...
08/26/2026

We often think of nature as a place we go to feel better.

But what if the relationship goes both ways?

At Buds in Bloom, we come to the land to slow down, listen, reconnect and restore.

And as our relationship with the land deepens, something else happens: we begin to notice what the land needs from us, too.

Planting native habitat. Protecting pollinators. Tending the soil. Paying attention.

Because healing isn’t something that happens to us in nature.

It can become a relationship of reciprocity.

People and land, healing together. 🌿

I didn’t set out to create a Forest Therapy Sanctuary.After multiple concussions, I began spending time in the woods bec...
08/20/2026

I didn’t set out to create a Forest Therapy Sanctuary.

After multiple concussions, I began spending time in the woods because it was one of the only places my brain seemed able to truly rest.

I started noticing changes in myself.

So I became curious.

I wanted to understand why being in nature was affecting me the way it was.

That curiosity led me to Forest Therapy and eventually to becoming a certified Forest Therapy Guide through Association of Nature & Forest Therapy.

As I learned and practiced, nature also became a place where I could process grief after losing someone I loved.

Then I began guiding others.

And somewhere along the way, my understanding of this work expanded.

I originally understood Forest Therapy through the lens of my own healing. But after guiding more than 100 people, I’ve seen that you don’t have to be in crisis, or have tried everything else, to need a relationship with nature.

Almost everyone I meet is carrying something.
Stress. Overwhelm. Grief. Exhaustion.
Or sometimes, simply the desire to feel more connected.

This work is for all of us.
And it isn’t something you master in one experience.
Like any relationship, our relationship with nature takes time.

A guide can help us learn how to pay attention differently, explore that relationship more deeply, and discover practices we can carry into our everyday lives.
That’s what I hope to offer through this Forest Therapy Sanctuary.

A place to begin.
A place to return to.
And an invitation to keep building your relationship with the natural world, wherever life takes you. 🌿

08/18/2026

The forest is exhaling.

We’ve had rain for days. So much rain.
And today, the sun finally came out.

The forest is releasing the water it’s been holding, and for a few magical moments, it looks like the trees are breathing.

I could stand here and watch this all day.

These are the moments that make me stop.

The moments that remind me how much is happening around us all the time, whether we’re paying attention or not.

What would you notice if you slowed down enough to look?

08/16/2026

Why haven’t you come to the sanctuary yet?

Maybe you’re waiting for the right time.

Maybe you’re busy.
Maybe you’re not sure what forest therapy actually is.

Maybe you think you need to be stressed enough, struggling enough, or “in need” enough to come.

You don’t.

You can come because you’re curious.

Because you love being outside.

Because you want two quiet hours.

Because you’ve been moving through life at full speed and want to remember what it feels like to slow down.

There doesn’t have to be anything wrong.

You’re welcome here simply because you’re human.

What’s keeping you from coming?

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