Remembering my true nature

True Nature is where I write about my journey to age into deeper relationship with the Earth.

I’m Jo, living at the edges, in a cottage just beyond a village in rural Wiltshire. It’s home to me, my husband, our daughter, and a feisty cat who travelled a long path to find us. I’m surrounded by birds, trees, fields, and the comfort and contradiction of modern life. I’m not off-grid; I’m not All Natural All Of The Time; I am very much not always serene, but I’ve been listening.

I’ve come to know our kinship with all life; animism as a guiding star, and that we are the land dreaming itself. I use and make flower essences (I’m a qualified but non-practicing practitioner if there is a such a thing), I’m a student ‘home herbalist’, and have been known to dust off a little energy healing ability when required. I grow things - in a slightly random way, I journey, and talk to my spirit guides. I’m curious about the old ways of these islands, and how they still live beneath the surface of everything.

This rural life shaped who I am. I see my ageing not as fading into oblivion, but as a return to what’s most real, most sacred. To a different way of being human.

At True Nature, I write and speak from a personal perspective about being rooted in earth-based spirituality, self-discovery, and the slow, steady awareness that can arrive with your third act if you pay attention.

I talk about things like:

- embracing the post-menopausal path and growing older with soul

- animism, seasonal rhythms, and sacred ecology

- finding space for devotion in my daily life

- reciprocal relationship to a place and my More Than Human neighbours.

Mostly, I’m trying to remember what it means to belong to the natural world in a way that’s real, sacred, and visceral. Thank you for your precious company.

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Maybe you feel it too, that low hum beneath the noise of 2025. A call to remember the richness of Life and belong again. Subscribe for free, or - when I take that step - become a paid member for deeper practice, probably extra talking, and more. However you arrive, however long you stay, I’m glad you’re here.