The Green Healer
CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING THE GREEN ARCHETYPES QUIZ!
ACCORDING TO YOUR RESULTS YOU HAVE A NATURAL ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND YOU AND BRING HEALING TO IT.
As you’re adept at squirreling away facts, you have a great ability to analyse what will work and what won’t in treating planet earth. Your logical, organised mind means that you can spot greenwashing from miles away. As a result, you can guide others in knowing how to heal Nature, whether that is in your own garden or by working with the forests and oceans.
While your self-discipline means your thinking is thorough, it can sometimes make you feel that unless you know even more, you’re not qualified enough to make decisions. This can lead you to struggle with procrastinating and putting things off.
To find your balance, surrender your thoughts and focus on the present. What would it be like to trust that life is unfolding exactly as it should?
(With your inquistive mind, you’re likely to want to check the answer to the plastic question: it is 9%. That’s right just 9% of plastic gets recycled globally, which as a Green Healer is likely to be something you’ll want to repair.)
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” Anonymous
Here are 3 practical resources to get you started:
1 If you’re not already following us on Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok.
2 Click here for my guide on 5 Simple Ways to Live a Greener Life.
3 Check out our Directory to find out which are the greenest brands. Here are 3 to suit your green archetype to get you started on your green journey:
Thread Tales ❀
The lotus flower is a symbol of spiritual enlightenment as its pure white form rises out of the muddy depths. It is also, like bamboo, endlessly regenerative, regrowing each time it’s picked. Thread Tales uses this ancient fibre to create beautiful scarves and fabrics with symbolism woven through them.
Star Seed ❀
Skincare that heals not just your skin but the soil and forests of Africa. Star Seed’s minimalist skincare routine helps protect and restore the skin microbiome with powerful, yet gentle healing botanicals sourced from organic and wild ingredients in East Africa.
Use code GREENSTAR10 to get 10% off first order.
Clothes Doctor ❀
Keep your clothes looking gorgeous for years with a little help from Clothes Doctor. They offer plastic-free, non-bio, fragranced laundry detergents and clothing care, as well as repair, alteration and restoration treatments for your clothes.
Use code GREENSALON for 15% off.
Here are 3 resources for embracing the Journey of Green Living
1 CONNECT WITH THE WISDOM OF NATURE
When we’re children we intuitively know how to be in Nature but as adults we tend to walk through it as if it was wallpaper. We no longer have much space to pause, to look up at the sky, the branches of the trees or to run barefoot in the grass. To reconnect with the wisdom of nature, we need to slow right down and focus on the flicker of light on leaves, the touch of a light breeze on our skin or the earth beneath our feet. By reconnecting with Nature we become less caught up in our busy minds and more in tune with ourselves and this glorious planet we call home.
2 GROW A GREEN MINDSET
Nature is not just our healer but also our guide. Nature’s systems are inherently balanced in their design. Nature is circular - the oak tree’s leaves fall to the ground in autumn, forming a natural compost that feeds the trees roots - and zero waste - even the acorn casings become food for worms which turn them into soil. We can grow a green mindset by following Nature’s patterns and observing how, rather than judge her progress, she steadily moves forward. Imagine how much you too could achieve if you turned your energy away from judging towards simply being.
3 BUILD YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
Living a green life means transitioning from one set of habits to another. This can feel like hard work for the brain which prefers to cruise on autopilot. To make it easier we can harness two emotions: celebration and self-compassion. By celebrating our wins each time we choose the sustainable option, we light up the dopamine reward circuit in our brains. And if we’re gentle on ourselves when we forget, or get too busy, we lose our fear of failing to “get it right”. This helps our mind experience the transition as enjoyable rather than stressful and builds our mental resilience to keep going.
Hello, I’m Lucy Johnson!
Like you, I’m a Green Healer who loves to know what works in restoring nature.
Green living is about connection and empowerment. That is exactly what I do. I connect people to Nature’s intuitive wisdom - and their own. I believe this reconnection is what gives us the psychological resilience to adapt to our changing world and the motivation to keep going on our journey to a greener life.
A bit about me: working as a political and environmental TV reporter 20 years ago opened my eyes to the destruction we are wreaking on the planet. In struggling with my own eco-anxiety, I retrained as a psychotherapist and I now use integrative therapy, eco-therapy and coaching to help people reconnect with Nature and reclaim their calm.
Through my sustainability coaching, I support individuals and groups both psychologically and practically in the steps that we can all take to decarbonise our lives and ease plastic and damaging synthetic chemicals out of our homes.
“When we stop and listen to Nature, we learn to listen to ourselves. I work beside you to make space for this, and transform foreboding about climate change into a sense of agency about your part in repairing it.”
- Lucy
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