My Journey with Mother Earth

Mother earth holds me.  

I am cradled by Mother Earth. 

I am held, love, safe, and fueled by Mother Earth. 

Since I was a child, I grew up spending lots and lots of time in nature. Every summer, my parents took us camping in Lake Tahoe, which always felt like a second home to me. I always felt so at peace, so at home, so alive, adventurous, excited by life, and my fullest self when I was adventuring amongst those rocks and pines and water.

Nature is where some of my greatest healing experiences and community occurred as I grew up, attending a nonprofit summer camp for children with cancer and their siblings each year. 

These experiences impacted me so deeply, so wholly, so fully at a heart and body and soul level that this inspired me to pursue a degree and career in outdoor education and leadership. My journey led me through multiple colleges as I followed the pebbles that marked my path as my soul and life led me forward along my way, one step at a time. I laugh when I look back at the Jenna that left her home when she was 18 to move out of state and start college. Wow - she had absolutely zero idea that life and my soul had such a larger and more unexpected vision for her life and purpose and becoming then she could ever have imagined. And as I have said many times, I was guided to a life and embodiment of so much more joy, bliss, pleasure, adventure, excitement, authenticity, heart, community, fun, laughter, and soul connection and truth, than I truly previously thought possible for myself.

Nature had an immense, immense part in my life unfolding. Yes, I studied it in college. Yes, I guided 3 to 8 day outdoor camping, backpacking, kayaking, and climbing outdoor adventure trips in college and yes, I adventured with great gratitude and awe in so many beautiful, pristine, stunning, and magical outdoor spaces in addition to that. But nature’s greatest power is what I experienced within when I went into the woods, the desert, the lakes, and more. 

Before I understood what was happening, I can look back now and see that as I went out into isolated, remote, primarily untouched touched parts of nature, that Mother Earth, Mother Nature, was teaching me, guiding me, and very deeply nourishing my soul and body on more levels than I ever guessed.

Without knowing it at the time, Mother Earth was my mentor. She was my first and most potent, always, mentor at guiding, instructing, and introducing me to the ways of nature’s healing and magic and transformation.

To name a few, she taught me that going out into nature regularly for extended periods of time - going out with intention, presence, and tuning in consciously to the energy and essence and embodiment of nature - she taught me that by so doing one can literally rewire, calm, and heal one’s nervous system, mind, one’s emotional state, and even one’s body as it released those unhealthy ways of being. 

She taught me that there’s a steadiness, and unending-ness, and a deeply rooted and anchored and grounded-ness of nature. And that opening up to this presence in nature, tuning into it, being aware of it, witnessing it, feeling it, actually allows me to see and witness and experience this energy and essence and being-ness within me. I am steadiness. I am unending. I am deeply rooted and anchored and grounded.

In fact, the essence and energy of nature was so alive and resonant within me that I felt like I was more at home in nature than anywhere else. I felt like I could relate to nature and be understood by nature more than anyone else in life. I felt like I was one with nature. 

Mother Earth also taught me throughout those epic outdoor adventurings, the energy of her rhythm. Nature’s rhythm. Peace, calmness, cyclical, rhythmic, flowing, circular, infinite. This energy of nature, so intensely good and nourishing and f*cking right in my being that I was never the same again. I already took issue with the fast-paced nature of western society. But this. This wasn’t just living a calm and slower life.  This felt like truth. This felt like infiniteness.  This felt like HOME. Rightness. Me.  

There was something there. There was something deep and enduring, and so palpable in my blood and body that became a part of me. That became who I was. 

Something deep and alive and powerful. Something magical! A magic so transformative to me that I knew, I knew, my path had been leading me to this all those years unbeknownst to me. And yet I didn’t really know what it was for several more years.

I discovered what I had experienced, what I had been seeking without really knowing it, was as old as humanity itself. Indigenous wisdom. Earth spirituality. Earth-based tradition. Whichever term, it is the knowing and understanding that we are deeply, essentially interconnected with all of nature. And that by living in harmony with her, living in alignment with her natural rhythms, and by receiving and flowing with her gifts and energy, we can live an absolutely magnificent, rich, and deeply embodied magical life. 

Learning this wisdom by working with mentors and through a variety of other formats, I felt like I finally found home in myself, in my body, and in this world. Living on planet Earth made sense to me fully for the first time ever. For the first time, the parts of me that didn’t seem to fit into this world or society were seen. Acknowledged. Celebrated!!!

I WAS HOME.

And in fact, I learned that I always had been home - in my body, in this Earth, in me. 

We live in a time in society when so many people are seeking a center - a deeper connection to something meaningful and a peace within themselves and their bodies. Mother Earth, and indigenous Earth-based traditions have provided this and so much more for me.

If you are seeking a deeper connection and Mother Nature seems to be calling you, I invite you to explore my offerings and subscribe to my weekly emails (below) where you’ll receive positivity and Earth-based offerings straight to your inbox.

Sending you so much magical Earth love and miracles of transformation in your life!

Much love,

Jenna