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🌿 My Story: Staying Stuck vs. Investing in My Mental Health 🌲✨
Why are nature retreats so powerful for your mental health? Because they offer what everyday life often can’t: a pause. A place to...

thegivingcypress
3 hours ago4 min read
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All Humans Outside: Healing in Nature
🌿 I’m thrilled to share that my story is featured in the newly released book, All Humans Outside: Stories of Belonging in Nature—an...

thegivingcypress
May 54 min read
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Something Wild Has Bloomed!
Hello, dear friends and supporters, The past few years has been an incredible adventure, filled with twists, turns, and profound growth....

thegivingcypress
Mar 133 min read
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The Growing of a Healing Collective
Dear Nature Enthusiasts, Friends, and Family of Healing Souls, Here's a heartwarming recap of our recent Solstice Nature Retreat! The...

thegivingcypress
Jul 23, 20242 min read
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Giving Back To The Land: Decolonizing Forest Therapy
Having Honest Conversations about Settler Colonialism, Healing, and the Wellness Industry I am a settler: What is Settler Colonialism?...

thegivingcypress
Nov 27, 202311 min read
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Access Intimacy in Nature: Accessing Care through Direct Experiences
In celebration of Disability Awareness Month, we share a series of stories that portray what true access intimacy is and the lesson that...

thegivingcypress
Mar 31, 202311 min read
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You Are The Result of The Love Of Thousands
Among the chaos of the modern world and feelings of self-doubt, Nature and indigenous teachings remind us that we all are connected by a...

thegivingcypress
Feb 28, 20236 min read
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Finding Multiple Truths in Worlds of Sound and Silence
There is an illusion that there are separate worlds: the Deaf and Hearing Worlds, the Civilized and Natural Worlds. While technology...

thegivingcypress
Jan 27, 202311 min read
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Nature Signs: "Indi Meets Washington" translated in Sign Language
Written by Madison Traviss Illustrated by Sien Tran Translated in American Sign Language by Summer Crider New trails, new people, new...

thegivingcypress
Dec 2, 20221 min read
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Exploring the Forest through Protactile: The DeafBlind Way
Co-authored by Summer Crider, Hayley Broadway, and Jessica Ennis, with participation of DeafBlind co-navigators Kim Powers, Riss Leitzke,...

thegivingcypress
Dec 1, 202213 min read
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Slow Nomadic Travels: Being Conscious As We Move Through
Written by Summer Crider and Madison Traviss Originally published on the blog of Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT)...

thegivingcypress
Nov 21, 202210 min read
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The Real Story of Thanksgiving
More and more of us are becoming educated on the painful history of Thanksgiving and having conversations about cultural appropriation*...

thegivingcypress
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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Announcing the Nature & Forest Therapy Immersion Retreat
Deaf people face unique challenges with getting full access to communication in their native language, and thus, have fewer opportunities...

thegivingcypress
Oct 24, 20223 min read
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StoryWeaving: Co-Navigating with Disabled Bodies
Article written by Summer Crider and Meredith Burke StoryWeaving: Co-Navigating with Disabled Bodies: Part 1 In the beginning of my newly...

thegivingcypress
Jul 29, 20228 min read
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Seek Your Wild, Natural World!
Summer and the Turtle Shuttle has been featured on Seek The World, an international Deaf news show. Watch Summer in true action whether...

thegivingcypress
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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Message from the Lakota Spiritual Elder- Basil Braveheart
Sharing a message from Basil Braveheart, Lakota Spiritual leader, that "we all are connected"

thegivingcypress
Jul 20, 20223 min read
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The Daily Moth spotlights us!
We have been featured on “The Daily Moth”! It’s been an honor being interviewed about my cross-country bus tour and showing my...

thegivingcypress
May 27, 20221 min read
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Traveling with a Mission to make Nature Accessible for All
Summer, a nomadic Deaf Forest Therapy guide, is currently traveling on a converted shuttle bus, connecting Humans and Nature while making...

thegivingcypress
May 23, 20226 min read
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Statistics and Stories about Mental Health in the Deaf community
In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, The Giving Cypress and Signed By Stories have partnered to underscore the need for awareness...

thegivingcypress
May 19, 20223 min read
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Navigating Our Edges: Partnership Guiding in Silence
In Nature, disability is merely a social construction and using silence in Forest Therapy can help us look deep inside ourselves, past...

thegivingcypress
Apr 30, 20225 min read
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There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.
-Maya Angelou
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