Nature Is the First Place a Trapped Woman Goes When She’s Waking Up
Many women recovering from toxic or emotionally abusive relationships find themselves drawn to nature without really knowing why. If you’re Googling things like “how to heal after emotional abuse,” “why hiking helps my anxiety,” or “how to reconnect with myself,” you’re not alone. Nature plays a powerful role in nervous system healing — and it was the beginning of my entire transformation.
Nature is the first place a trapped woman goes when she’s waking up.
Sounds dramatic, right? But think about it.
From my own experience, it was painfully true.
I spent years in an emotionally abusive relationship in my mid-20s without realizing that’s what was happening. All I knew was that I was drowning in anxiety and depression and convinced, “this is just how life is.” I was repeatedly told that I was the problem, that I needed help, that something was wrong with me.
So I got help. And it helped a little… but not enough to make any sense of the fog.
Then I stepped into nature.
At first it was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. Maybe my depression had hit a point where I didn’t fully care what happened to me, but I knew I wanted more than the life I was living. The mountains gave me something nothing else did… raw honesty I couldn’t escape.
Unfortunately, I was miserable most of the time.
I hated the cold.
The terrain was brutal.
Altitude absolutely wrecked me, especially because I later learned I had severe iron deficiency and anemia.
But despite all of that… I kept going back.
Because something wild and important was happening:
I kept making it.
I continued on and finished things other people only dreamed about starting. I began finding accomplishment, purpose, and tiny sparks of confidence I hadn’t felt in years — if ever.
And slowly, painfully, inevitably… I started waking up.
Not just to my crappy marriage, but to every relationship where I’d been shrinking myself. Friends. Coworkers. Workplaces. Social expectations. All of it.
The mountains didn’t “fix” me.
They reminded me who the f*ck I am.
What I gained out there was trust. In my body. In my instincts. In my ability to handle discomfort. In my ability to choose myself even when someone else didn’t like it.
The process was slow as hell, but it was real.
And it changed everything.
Why Women Run to Nature When They're Waking Up
A woman doesn’t go to nature because she’s outdoorsy, adventurous, or trying to reinvent herself. She goes because her body is begging for one single taste of truth — truth she can’t access in the noise of her everyday life.
Nature is the only place where the nervous system stops performing.
You can’t charm your way up a mountain.
You can’t people-please your way into oxygen.
You can’t intellectualize your way through loose scree.
You can’t negotiate with altitude.
You have to feel.
You have to listen.
You have to respond.
In nature, there’s nowhere to hide from yourself, which is exactly why so many women find freedom there first.
Because suddenly, you hear your own voice again.
Nature Was My First Teacher, But Somatic Work Helped Me Integrate It
Nature opened the door, but somatic work helped me rebuild.
Somatic healing is the inward version of what the mountains taught me:
how to hear your body’s signals
how to stop gaslighting yourself to keep the peace
how to notice truth instead of ignoring it
how to trust your instincts again and stop second guessing your intuition
how to move away from survival mode into actual peace and self sovereignty
Women come to me not because they want “mindfulness,” but because they’re finally waking up. Their bodies are done being dismissed. They’re done being the emotional shock absorber of their relationships. They’re done contorting themselves to stay safe.
They want their sense of self back.
My approach weaves somatic experiencing, nervous system awareness, and embodied confidence-building into something practical, grounded, and powerful — exactly the way nature taught me.
If You’re Feeling That Wake-Up Pull… That’s Your Signal
If reading this lights something up in you, that little inner spark that whispers, this is me, then you’re already in the process.
You’re waking up.
And you don’t have to figure it out alone.
My 1:1 somatic coaching is where women learn to reconnect with their bodies, rebuild trust in their own voice, and walk out of the versions of their lives that were designed to keep them small.
This is for the woman who’s done being trapped.
Done performing.
Done betraying herself.
Done settling.
Done apologizing.