Posts Tagged ‘Stephanie Boulton’
On Progress ll By Stephanie Boulton, MA, LPCC
On Saturday it was declared that Biden won the election. It was a massive release of so much energy, like people could breathe again. I saw so many tears of relief, dancing, yelling… Like a weight had been lifted. This morning while reflecting on the moment, it occurred to me that for the last four…
Read MoreBeing Lost is Becoming a Lost Art ll By Stephanie Boulton
We are scared of the unknown… Of not knowing what to do. Our society avoids the bad feelings, and in turn we spend a whole lot of time and energy trying to escape what it is to be human. I am so tired of seeing directives wherever I go. “Be kind”, “Live, Laugh, Love”, “Seize…
Read MoreThis World is Packed with things that are Bigger than Me ll By Stephanie Boulton, MA, LPCC
One of my favorite things about climbing mountains and backpacking is being humbled in a way where I still feel like I belong. I stand on the mountain and feel my smallness. I see the routes that are possible and the routes that are not. I have to read the weather. There are times to…
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Ants ll By Stephanie Boulton
This blog post is an amalgamation of excerpts from a paper I wrote a year and a half ago for an eco-psychology class. We were asked to write about a natural being that we found a connection with: Ants are among the social insects (social insects are all of the genera Hymenoptera which also includes…
Read MoreLeaning into Growth and Challenge: How to Gauge Yourself in a Healthy Way. ll By Stephanie Boulton
I used to work as a field Instructor for Outward Bound Canada. Outward Bound is an outdoor education school which uses the outdoors to teach real life skills to mainly teens but also adults. The whole premise of Outward Bound expeditions is to take a group of people who don’t know each other and put…
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