To Be Human

On today’s podcast we have the beautiful Claire Dunn. Claire was a former environmental campaigner for The Wilderness Society. With growing interest in the psychology of the human-nature connection, Claire immersed herself in deep ecology, wilderness survival and nature awareness skills, rewilding, Jungian psychology, yoga, somatic psychotherapy and nature soul encounter practices. Claire offers reconnecting and rewilding workshops and retreats, and personal mentoring sessions. Claire also holds a degree in Media and Communications and has been a freelance journalist since 2001. She is the author of two books, ‘My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild’ and ‘Rewilding the Urban Soul’.

What I personally love about this conversation is Claire’s beautiful presence and energy that she authentically embodies. In 2010, Claire embarked on a year of nature immersion, completing an Independent Wilderness Studies Program and it is in this conversation that she shares deeply about such an immersive and defining experience. Claire upon realising the distance between what she was trying to save through The Wilderness Society and the life she was living, took a leap of courage into nature and found that what she was longing for was also longing for her. Through living in the flow of nature, Claire’s old trauma patterns and parts of her pain body began to reveal themselves. Her voice of self-judgement became louder and the internal fight between the ‘doer’ and her new self was emerging. Claire shares about the importance of rewilding and the significant difference from rewinding, and one of my personal favourite lessons from this conversation is her concept of freedom and how this, through the absence of fear and resistance, we can experience if we so choose.

Please enjoy this really beautiful conversation with the connected Claire Dunn.