Amidst a Quebecois forest. Over an absolutely gorgeous Fall long weekend, I attended a retreat for therapists. It was in the middle of a forest in Quebec, and it was transformational. Part of the retreat was learning about ecotherapy, and how we are not just beings that can enter nature, but we are nature. The forest and its inhabitants can be known to us as ‘other-than-human’, a signifier that there is no true hierarchy to living things. I attended the retreat to further m

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