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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
May 134 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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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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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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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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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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Encounters with Manatees
Ever since I was small, I could remember loving animals and caring for their well-being. My parents had a huge role of teaching folks...

thegivingcypress
Feb 19, 20212 min read
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There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.
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-Maya Angelou
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