NATURE
Nourish your
Hi, I’m January. I have a passion for facilitating the slow & tender work of rewilding — liberating the wild soul you buried behind years of cultural conditioning. If you’re done faking it to fit in and you’re ready to go deep, get weird, and risk failure to pursue a life that nourishes your nature, you’ve come to the right place.
Ready to
rewild?
Rewilding (n.) —
Dismantling the artificial structures imposed on us by culture and restoring ourselves to a resilient, self-regulating ecosystem of parts.
Writing
What happens when a witchy queer artist from one of America’s least religious cities gets saved by the Jesus she didn’t even believe in? (Spoiler alert: shenanigans ensue.) I write poems, guest sermons, and reflections on emotionally healthy theology and the role of creativity in Christian discipleship.
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Hosting
It’s hard to make the leap from learning about things to actually practicing them. I host regular online spaces that facilitate creative practice, embodied theology, and integrative shadow work. I prefer the word “hosting” to “teaching” because I’m not an expert handing you wisdom; we’re all learning together how to listen to the voice of our own unique nature.
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Coaching
Your culture sold you a set of beliefs about who you had to be in order to belong. Through a unique blend of somatic coaching and spiritual direction, I help you crack the cultural concrete to discover the rituals, rhythms & relationships that nourish your most authentic nature.
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You don’t need me to tell you the world is a hot mess right now.
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars… Nation will rise against nation… because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold.” Matthew’s gospel is sounding less like a wild first century prophecy and more like this morning’s Washington Post articles. (And let’s notice I can say that with confidence pretty much regardless of what morning you’re reading this.)
Something is dying.
Something is dying. That much is undeniable. The way we’ve been living in the industrial West is fundamentally unsustainable, and the planet is telling us in no uncertain terms that we can’t keep it up. We’re in for an era of change and upheaval like nothing many of us have known, and we’re scared that what’s dying might just be us.
But when something’s
dying, something else is
always being born.
Nothing in nature dies without nourishing
the life that comes after it.
Whether it was your family of origin, your school, your church, or another social context, someone taught you to control, repress, commoditize and domesticate yourself in order to fit in. If social media has shown us anything it’s that most of us are one triggered wound, one exposed vulnerability away from savagery — whether we turn it on others, or turn it inward on ourselves. Rewilding heals us through tending our wounds, integrating our shadows, and reclaiming our inherent creativity.
Feral is what happens when
culture cages nature
The work of rewilding isn’t only the work of dismantling the harmful social structures & cultural norms we’ve internalized. It’s about both dismantling and restructuring. Nature has a structure of original aliveness. We have access to that aliveness when we live from our embodied nature, but most of us have been taught to fear and control our bodies.
Rewilding helps us come home to aliveness. It helps you let go of the ‘shoulds’ keeping you stuck, and composts old ways of being to nurture the resilient ecosystem of the person you actually are. It’s about coming home to the structures built into nature — my nature, your nature, the natural world — as a trellis, not a cage.
“Your task is to walk back from the woods with an animal. Not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don’t domesticate it; make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder.
You build your structures
from its growls.”
—Martin Shaw
Can you imagine a world where we betray our fear in order to come fully alive? Where we allow our shame & blame, our rage, our comparisons, our thirst for control, our social reputations, our greed and our violence to decay so that connection, vulnerability, tenderness, compassion, justice and trust can thrive?
What if peace begins with
ending the war you’re fighting
against your nature?
If your soul feels paved over, now is a great time to crack the cultural concrete that’s kept you from growing into the person you want to be. As a coach and theologian, I help you find your power through creativity & courage instead of through control, so we can quit brutally trying to “fix” each other (or ourselves!) and instead focus on what we each contribute to a future of human flourishing.
