Life Transitions & Nature
Life in Relationship22 Apr 2025

Life Transitions & Nature

Question: What skills can nature teach us about life transition and change?

Transitions come with stress

  • Attending to the transition, noticing the energy and tasks required

  • Various emotions of transition

  • Nature as an intentional place to "escape" to

Tip #1 - any time in nature is valuable

Tip #2 - nature reminds us every thing happens in its time

  • notice the transitions in nature itself to validate your own

  • Widen the lens - notice the steady cycle around the changes all around us

  • allow the time of a transition, nature allows the slowness of transitions

  • Job and Song of Songs

Tip # 3 - Look to Nature for Comfort

  • Nature as therapist

  • Build a trustworthy relationship with nature (and with God)

  • Release of control

  • Learning by experiencing and presence instead of cognition

Tip #4 - Take a Mindfulness Break

  • Unconscious and conscious integrating for growing awareness

  • Scripture examples in Song of Songs and Job

Colorado State U transition handout - https://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/consumer/10214.pdf

Tip #5 - Reflect and Let God Tend to You

Resources -

Life is in the Transitions book - https://a.co/d/8LB7Lha

Links to research

  • https://silvotherapy.co.uk/articles/mental-wellbeing-nature-connection

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