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What Forest Bathing is and How to Do it
Throughout my life, the natural world has always been a healing balm for me. As a child in the New York suburbs, I found quiet sanction...
Johanna DeBiase
Dec 2, 20225 min read


Reconciling Thanksgiving + Gratitude Game
When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of Nanny, my maternal grandmother, Florence Lillian Finkelstein. My childhood Thanksgivings were...
Johanna DeBiase
Nov 15, 20225 min read


Liminal States and How to Enter Them
As I cross the old wooden bridge that straddles the trinkling Rio Fernando, I enter the home of the trees and their soft shade, the...
Johanna DeBiase
Oct 26, 20224 min read


Lessons from Persephone
Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. You may recall the Greek myth from 6th grade Social Studies class. One day while the...
Johanna DeBiase
Oct 4, 20225 min read


Bodyfulness, and Why You Need It
The other day I burned my dinner. I was thinking about something else. I was deep in the recesses of my mind, replaying an incident from...
Johanna DeBiase
Sep 21, 20224 min read


Smoke Or COVID
A personal essay about wildfires in the time of COVID, a terrible mix.
Johanna DeBiase
Aug 9, 20222 min read


Floating Trees: returning to the land of my ancestors
I began bleeding the moment the El Al plane landed on the tarmac.
Johanna DeBiase
Jun 12, 20227 min read


It's Elemental, My Dear
I don’t think there was ever a time in my life when I didn’t have a favorite tree. As a child, I loved the maple tree in our backyard. In...
Johanna DeBiase
May 2, 20224 min read


Welcome the Emergence of the School of Intuitive (Eco)Writing
Intuitive (Eco)Writing is the culmination of all my passions put into a blender, juiced up and ready to serve. Writing has been my...
Johanna DeBiase
Apr 7, 20227 min read


Oxygen, Water, Food and Happiness
While the pandemic didn't curb climate change, it did bring people out of doors and into a greater appreciation of green spaces.
Johanna DeBiase
Mar 22, 20225 min read
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