Hi, I’m IRÊNÉ.
Nature was not a branding choice for me.
It was where I learned how to come back to myself.
For years I believed I would never be able to be fully myself.
I didn’t know who I was before the trauma.
I didn’t know which parts were mine.
Which parts were survival.
Or whether I would ever be able to trust my own voice.
So I started paying attention.
To my body.
To the bush.
To animals.
To what happened when I stopped forcing myself to perform healing and started practicing it instead.
And something unexpected happened.
The more I practiced saying no…
the more freedom showed up.
Not because saying no became easy.
I just stopped abandoning myself after I said it.
That changed everything.
That became the work I teach today.
I help women build the capacity to stay with themselves when the moment gets uncomfortable.
When someone disagrees.
When guilt shows up.
When your throat tightens.
When your body wants to disappear.
Not perfect boundaries.
Not perfect words.
The capacity to remain with yourself long enough to use your own voice.
Nature is woven through this work because it is where I learned to pay attention differently. To sensation. Territory. Sound. Movement. Rest. The ways animals respond to threat and return to themselves. The ways a body communicates before words ever arrive.
THE WORK BEHIND THE WORK
My approach brings together lived experience, nature-based practice, nervous system education, voice reclamation and trauma-informed somatic tools.
I’m a certified forest therapy practitioner, trauma-informed somatic educator, published novelist, and creator of the Forest Nurture Rewilding Method™.
My work is educational and experiential.
I am not a therapist or mental health professional, and this work is not a replacement for therapy or medical care.