Nature will never fail you.  When you are sad, angry, happy, rageful…Nature is a place you can take every emotion you have and She will welcome you.  Especially great is really exerting yourself in nature.  Getting sweaty and dirty and hot.  Chopping wood, lifting rocks, shovelling earth.  These activities may not be good for your back, but ladies they are good for the soul!

Last week I saw a mama deer and a baby deer drinking water by the lake.  The baby was jumpy, like a little puppy, hopping around in the mud.

I am a rock collector.  Not shells and not pressed leaves.  Rocks and sometimes they get quite large.  When I am travelling my pockets inevitably fill with stones…and a few of them always make it home with me.

Arts and crafts are another place where I can be myself.  Uninhibited craft therapy.  Remember your tools in your emotional toolkit.  You learned what makes you happy a long time ago.  Playing in piles of leaves and painting with your fingers.  Remember?  Try it again.  See how it feels.