Transformational Nature
Connection Journeys

The summer between high school and college, I had my first perception-altering psychedelic experience during a Phish concert. I thought this awareness that I found would be what people learned to live into in college, and through adulthood. Boy, was I wrong! Even in the field of psychology, such states were not only rarely explored, other than mainly to be vilified. 

 I studied and worked in the world of mental health and education for over a decade, but the times when I felt closest to that state of mind is when I was in nature. I got a summer job as a raft guide in college, living with a band of other dirtbag rafters in my tent, which really felt my story move forward. After graduation, I combined my skills with my psychology degree, and worked in wilderness therapy. It was then that I realized how people’s contact with wild nature truly affects everything.