Fear and Floating in a Flemish Forest

To be a guide is more than a job. It is a calling. And with callings for other ways, these seeds of wisdom I am collecting offers a path for continuously learning and growing into a life in which we can fully embody our mission: to connect people with the land, the others and themselves. While I learn more and more, I feel I am getting more comfortable in trusting the forest and even walking in dark forests. Last month, I was walking for twenty minutes alone in a dark forest, looking for the accommodation where the first forest bath weekend in Belgium would start, and I felt no fear. But as we grow and learn, it means we have to encounter our fears, anxieties, our edges. In that same weekend, I talked with another guide, with more experience, that there is one forest where I still get…