The Mighty Leaflet
You Lost Your Sense of Adventure and Creativity Some Time Ago
It was probably in the daily grind that turned into weeks, which turned into months. Now you left feeling like your coffee club beans: watered down, cold, and forgotten on your desk because you can’t escape a Teams meeting. Work pings in your eardrums on walks with your fur baby, which have become inconvenient interruptions to rush through so you can get back to your desk. It used to be the home of story ideas and doodles from daydreams, the only remnants are buried on the corkboard covered by to-do lists.
If you can dodge an email, you can dodge a ball, and you’ve become a master at dodging your boss’s inquiries about the project deadlines coming up.
If you were living by your open internet tabs you would have planned 3 trips to a cabin in the woods where you could lay on your SUP all day. You’d wander over to the shade off the cost for a snack and nap, and finish by giving your passionate rendition of how your favorite character was killed again. You and your friends would sit exhausted around the campfire drinking gawd-awful instant coffee because Tommy forgot to bring the coffee grinder, and you weren’t about to try grinding it off of the rocks you found on your hike today. There’s no place like home, and sometimes home is the woods. Other times it’s the people you get lost with.
If you can dodge an email, you can dodge a ball, and you've become a master at dodging your boss's inquiries about the project deadlines coming up.
In your attempt to delay working, you respond to your journals begging. It’s been sitting behind your second monitor for weeks, patiently having it’s heartbroken. But the pages of your journal don’t throw arrows to your heart like they used to, and it hurts to think about the distance work has created. You worshiped the words you spilled waiting for the next sense of insight and understanding into what was actually going on inside of you. Aside from proposals, the only things you’ve been creative at are PowerPoint presentations, and gone are the days of Word Art and Typewriter Transitions. Your inner ecosystem has been unexplored for some time, and when you do manage to write it’s only to keep yourself from catastrophe.
Exploration seems like a thing of the past.
You even try taking meetings outside, but the chatter of the meetings overwhelm the whispers of the woods and you end up just ignoring them too. You’ve been experiencing the outdoors for years now: backyards in leaf piles harder than the kaleidoscope pillow they look like, your first trip to the tip-top of the tallest mountain in a 3-hour drive, and new adventures on the slopes as often as you can. But finding the space of stillness it once carried was replaced by the gusting of Gail’s nagging voice and reminders about deadlines. It almost feels like you’ve exhausted all of your options in new places to search. If you even had time to plan these big adventures, your sense of presence has been replaced with cents in the work budget.
You are Curiously Lost
You are caught up in all of those darn adulthood responsibilities. They’re important, and people depend on you for them. But they blur the lines that were built so you can enjoy that sense of freedom and stillness you had when you had time to yourself. The moments you do find are filled with a flurry of worries gusting you from the silence you are trying to be still in. Adulthood has sucked away the joys and creativity that your youth held, leaving and yearning for a way to get back to that place of innocence and the wonder of the world.
You need a place that offers a space of presence, that allows you to take the opportunity to grow & connect with yourself and the world around you. A space that takes journaling & poetry writing seriously, and helps you take a step further in finding yourself through them. A space that helps you connect with nature and see the wonder the world use to hold, and gives you a way to take it with your every day.
And I need you to help me make it, because it doesn’t exist yet.
What I'm Dreaming Of:
An opportunity to have groups & learning about journaling & poetry writing
An opportunity to further deep writing and understand yourself and the world around you.
A community of like-minded individuals to share your discoveries and insight with, and to have some fun too
A space to be guided in rekindling your relationship with Nature, and noticing the wonders of the world in your everyday life
What You Are Looking For
Dedicated time to learning how to journal and write with depth
A space to build your relationship with nature and the outdoors
Community to share in your discoveries and growth
Accountability in holding onto these lifestyle changes and healthy habit
*This place is going to be awesome, but I want to be clear that this is not psychotherapy treatment for Depression, Anxiety, or other Major Mental Health Issues. If you need a therapist or group therapy, you should totally find it.
Before This Community Existed
You’ve been drowning in a lifestyle that keeps you from enjoying your time outside and creative exploration. Even when you find the time to be alone with your thoughts or the great outdoors, you can’t seem to find that connection you so desperately long for. Life seems like an endless battle between setting time aside to be creative & curious and getting not being able to escape the world you left behind. You don’t have anyone to support you in this journey of discovery and you are alone in these dark woods.
After Building This Community
You are rejuvenated with a space that challenges your growth and thinking. You have access to regular prompts and exercises that allow for deep discoveries that you have always been looking for. You can find space to be present and observant of the inner poetry you hold, and stillness to view the world in awe. You are supported by a community of like-minded individuals
Hey There! I’m Tim (He/Him), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, nature-loving poetic, rooted dreamer. There is no better place to feel lost in your own life than on my therapy couch, whether it be virtual, in-person, or in the more than human-built world.
There is only so much that DIY-ing your lifestyle change and daily habit can do for you. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses talk therapy, creative expression, and nature exploration to guide others to healing.
To Be Clear, for this community I’m not going to be your psychotherapist. If you need one you should totally find one. But what I will be doing is using my experience journaling, poetry writing, and as a forest therapy guide to build a community and learning to help you find that spark and joy you miss so dearly in writing and the outdoors.
If you’ve gone through this page and thought “wow Tim really gets what I’ve been hoping for my entire life” then you are absolutely in the right spot. There are a few other checkpoints you may notice along the way that let you know this is definitely the place to be:
- You’ve been dreaming of a space to further your connection with your journal, poetry, and with the great outdoors.
- You find yourself unable to enjoy your time outside because there are too many distractions, including your own mind sometimes.
- Journaling and Poetry writing have always been something you tinkered with, but are looking to go deeper and explore more about what it means to you.
- You’ve been longing for a space of like-minded nature-loving poets and journal enthusiasts, and haven’t found one yet.
This community is not for individual or group therapy for mental health. That doesn’t mean you can’t have depression or anxiety and be a part of this community. I myself have ADHD with the accompanying issues that come of it. But this is a place of self-actualization and exploration, not for the treatment of symptoms related to mental health issues.
This journey is about growth and insight, and truthfully I don’t know exactly what is going to happen inside of this community outside the vision I have for it. I know my skillset and knowledge about being a forest therapy guide and journaling/poetry writing. But I need you to know how you want it to show up. Is it in monthly lessons? Poetry and Journaling Groups? Guided Forest Therapy Walks? Convenient Podcast to take with you everywhere? The options are endless.
That’ll depend on what it is we’re doing in the group. I can’t offer everything for free, but I do know a few things.
- It will be scalable. So their will probably be different levels of memberships once all the details are sorted out.
- It’ll offer monthly and yearly memberships. Yearly memberships will come discounted (12 months for the price of 10)
- You’ll get a discounted rate compared to the general population. Being a part of the foundation means you get some perks. This discount will be locked in for the duration of your membership, whether it be 10 months or 10 years.
You’ll get a refund! Being a founding member of this community means you can help shape it. If you are not satisfied with the end result, I’ll refund you 100% of what you paid for that month, or your yearly membership if that’s what you went for.
That’s totally fine. I get wanting to wait and see what becomes of something like this. But here’s the thing. After the founding period ends, prices go up and membership becomes gated. You’ll only be able to enter at certain times of the year. If you want to wait, that’s cool. But I’d be curious if you journaled about what your hesitations were?
What's Next?
You deserve a space and community that supports your growth and exploration. A place to learn and grow in your journaling and connection to nature. Here are the next few steps:
Fill out the form to show your interest in what’s to come.
I’ll send you a personalized video email with instructions on how to share your ideas with me.
We end up meeting so I can get your ideas and discuss what you hope to see!
