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Hi everyone!

Anyone making plans yet for Gunnison? Feel free to email me at

vanessaterminicoach@gmail.com

SO EXCITED ! ! ! 🙂

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Curiosity
Ritual before beginning a session
pause
humor
self management
I like how you recognize how you are part of the relationship or equation responsibility as the coach and how your actions are contributing to the clients session

🙂

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Hello,

I am curious to learn with you all and excited I found EBI!
I am currently living in Brooklyn, NY. I am a student of various paths/certifications/ educational background and currently in college studying creative writing.
I am also an artist my passion is dance and writing but I do other art forms.
I have worked as holistic mentor mainly in the arena of women’s health and wellness and empowerment.
I am trying to make my side hustle my main hustle and am eager to synthesize my work in the context of nature connected coaching.
I plan to launch my own online business and learn how to become financially self sufficient through doing what I love.
I am trying to manifest living in vanlife culture or rv living with my partner so we can be at home in nature anywhere we desire. But for now I am nestled cozy in the city until I can get everything moving forward onto a big adventure.

looking forward to sharing and supporting for the journey ahead,

Vanessa (but I may change my name soon) 🙂

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What is nature connection?
A line from a poem I wrote “See, when you felt the heartbeat of the earth mother pulse through you in that moment you knew you were inseperable from her, we met there, too”, describes what nature connection is to me. I also believe that is requires at times solo exploration and communal sharing. In Young’s article, he wrote that mentoring is a key element in supporting a deeper connection. I also really love the line “Wilderness is a leaderless teacher” in Harpers article. There is this sense belonging that I think people desire in a more meaningful way and in a mediation I recieved this message. “Belonging is in every moment” and I think when we see wilderness as a formless being but as ourselves

Why is it important to you?

Moving to NYC became the catalyst for seeking a deeper connection to nature. The urban landscape set me on a quest to repair my severance to nature which did not begin by living in a big city but was revealed more clearly to me by the concrete envrionment. My severence to nature connection if I were to provide a timeline began sometime in my teen years. I grew up in a home of violence and my abuser was my primary caregiver. When I removed myself from the unhealthy envrionment, I began a healing journey that was initiated by deep nature connection. The transformation and healing that occured soothed me as my first mother, the earth held me through it. Although the instant and continuous support brought me back to harmony and profound peace, I struggled to maintain a conscious connection later on. I believe I resorted to substance abuse as a means to escape the tremors of my trauma which I did not anticipate and had no tools to navigate. I abandoned nature connection as my resource and it was easy to do so considering the community I participated in.
Years later, I arrive confused and riddled with unhealthy behavioral patterns in NYC and I observe a starvation of my soul I never knew existed. The decreasing connection to nature had seemingly vanished and I had become phantom like in my inhabitance. My body electric with the overstimuliation, a cacophony of sound penetrates me. The citys sound waves shock my being and my soul began questing for an immersion of nature connection. Nature connection is important to me because it is the mother toungue of my instinctual self. It is the pharmacy of green medicine for healing and is how I take better care of myself.

What are the real challenges in maintaining your connection?

I compromise myself too often. Instead of maintaining nature connection as a priority, I get distracted with social things, work too much and feel depleted and restless. Also, I have to think differently and be creative with seeking nature connection living in NYC. After reading the materials about nature connection, I see the bigger challenge is not having a mentor and community to cultivate a deeper connection.

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Hello community!

I’m Vanessa from Brooklyn, NY. I’ve had my eye on EBI for a few years and I’m excited to finally begin the journey!
Looking forward to meeting and sharing with you all🌿