HI, I’M IRÊNÉ.
Nature was not a branding choice for me.
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It was where I learned how to come back to myself.
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For years I believed I would never be able to be fully myself.
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I didn’t know who I was before the trauma.
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I didn’t know which parts were mine.
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Which parts were survival.
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Or whether I would ever be able to trust my own voice.
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So I started paying attention.
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To my body.
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To the bush.
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To animals.
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To what happened when I stopped forcing myself to perform healing and started practicing it instead.
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And something unexpected happened.
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The more I practiced saying no…
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the more freedom showed up.
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Not because saying no became easy.
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I just stopped abandoning myself after I said it.
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That changed everything.
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Today I help women build that same capacity.
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Not confidence.
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Not perfect boundaries.
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Not the right words.
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Capacity.
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The ability to stay with yourself when the moment gets uncomfortable.
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When someone disagrees.
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When guilt shows up.
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When your throat tightens.
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When your body wants to disappear.
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My work combines lived experience, nature-based practice, nervous system education, voice reclamation, and trauma-informed somatic tools.
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I am a certified forest therapy practitioner, trauma-informed somatic educator, published novelist, and creator of the Forest Nurture Rewilding Method™.
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Most importantly?
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I’m a woman who spent years learning how to stop abandoning herself.
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And now I teach other women how to do the same.