Wild Soul Guidance
One-on-One Guided Eco-Spiritual Companionship & Coaching
“Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.”
Embark on a transformative journey where the wisdom of nature meets the depth of your spirit. Wild Soul Guidance is a unique blend of eco-spiritual companionship and spiritual coaching, which guides you to reconnect with the Sacred Wild within and around you. Whether you’re seeking to harmonize your life with the rhythms of the earth, explore new spiritual dimensions, or deepen your connection to your true self, you will be offered a sanctuary for your growth. Discover the power of aligning your spiritual path with the natural world, and step into a life of purpose, balance, and profound inner peace. Let the journey begin.
Through aligning with direct experience in Nature, Wild Soul Guidance encourages deeply embodied awareness and attunement to the enchanted life that surrounds us and reconnects us to the reality that our human lives are apart of this glorious biosphere. This guided experience helps activate the practice of presencing, sensing, and exploring the barriers to an inherent and holy vibrancy within the more-than-human world. The hoped-for result is a powerful and sacred “eco-connection” that confronts the illusion of separation between humans and sentient nature in an increasingly urbanized and depleted world—and becomes a powerful healing balm for holistic well-being.
A Journey of Sacred Eco-Connection
Eco-spiritual companionship and coaching honors the sacredness of the natural world, guiding clients to reconnect with nature as a profound source of spiritual wisdom, healing, and inspiration. In-person practices may include nature walks, meditation in natural settings, or rituals that honor the elements, fostering a deep, embodied connection with the earth. Virtual sessions delve into the energetic themes of the seasons, exploring the spiritual wisdom of one's place, and nurturing a deep connection with the ecological story woven within and around the self. Woven throughout sessions are threads of:
Ecological Awareness: Clients are encouraged to cultivate a deeper understanding of environmental issues and the impact of their actions on the earth. This eco-spiritual companionship and coaching approach fosters a sense of solidarity and responsibility for the planet, often aligning personal spiritual growth with ecological activism or sustainable living.
Integration of Earth-Centered Practices: Eco-spiritual companionship and coaching may incorporate earth-centered spiritual practices, such as working with the cycles of the moon, the seasons, or the elements. These practices help clients attune to natural rhythms and find balance in their lives.
Healing and Transformation: By exploring the connections between personal healing and the health of the planet, eco-spiritual companionship and coaching supports clients in transformative work that benefits both themselves and the environment. This can involve addressing feelings of ecological grief, finding purpose in environmental advocacy, or healing from the sense of disconnection from nature.
Mind-Body-Earth Connection: Eco-spiritual companionship and coaching recognizes that true well-being involves aligning the mind, body, and spirit with the earth. This holistic approach helps clients achieve greater harmony and resilience by fostering a deep sense of belonging and interconnectedness with the natural world.
Spiritual Ecology: Mary incorporates principles of spiritual ecology, which sees the earth as a living, sacred being. Clients are guided to develop a reciprocal relationship with nature, where spiritual practices are not only about personal enlightenment but also about contributing to the well-being of the earth.
“Truly feeling and giving voice to the affective significance and meaning of our bond with the earth may be a crucial basis for action to restore the earth and a sustainable life worth living.”
Wild Soul Guidance may be part of your path if…
You seek to harmonize your faith tradition and spiritual practices with the natural rhythms and seasons, desiring a deeper connection to the earth.
The grief and sadness you feel from climate change and rapidly altering landscapes weigh on your spirit, and you long to process these emotions through meaningful ceremony and ritual.
You yearn to engage with practices that reveal the Sacred within Nature, deepening your awareness and connection to the living world.
Your desire to shift away from a dominant, colonizing worldview reflects a commitment to aligning your spiritual practices with co-sustaining, reciprocal ways of being.
You crave guided and sacred space in Nature for spiritual healing and soulful well-being, where you can cultivate a relationship with the Sacred that is ever-present within an animate, sentient, and wonder-filled world.
Feeling disconnected from the holy realities of Nature—whether the seasons, the elements, lunar cycles, or natural phenomena—you seek guidance to explore the wild and creative edges of your life.
You wish to draw inspiration from Nature for your unique life expression and receive mentorship on manifesting your work’s true form.
Your physical health calls for a nature-based renewal, a soulful connection to the wild world that reawakens your senses.
The pull of technology has left you feeling out of sync with the seasons, and you aspire to reconnect with an enchanted life where awe and wonder guide you, and synchronicity is recognized as a Sacred Guide.
You are ready to transform how you interact with the world, developing strategies that deepen your reciprocity with the surrounding landscape and the beings that inhabit it.
Through eco-spiritual companionship and coaching, you seek to live in harmony with the earth, cultivating a life that reflects the beauty, wisdom, and sacredness of the natural world.
Each healing journey is unique, and I tailor my approach to your specific needs. With extensive professional training, I offer a comprehensive toolkit that includes eco-spiritual companionship, eco-therapy, mindfulness practices, eco-psychology, eco-mysticism, and applied mythology to support your path to self-recovery and healing. The desired outcome is a profound sacred "eco-connection" that dispels the illusion of separation between humans and nature in our increasingly urbanized world, offering healing and whole-ing for holistic spiritual well-being.
WILD SOUL GUIDANCE OFFERINGS
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth….”
~Robert Frost
Waymarkers’ Wild Soul Guidance offers two different “roads” for engagement. If you are desiring companionship during a season of your life, or coaching as you cross new and remembered thresholds into the wild terrain of your soul, you may be interested in Wild Thresholds, a six-month (minimum) relationship that offers eco-spiritual companionship and coaching.
Wild Taproots is a one-time deepening session that works well for individuals who are in need of support for a particular situation; who are wanting to consult on a project; or who may need immediate guidance into the wilderness of soul. Read on for the particulars.
Wild Thresholds
Wild Thresholds is designed for people seeking eco-spiritual companionship and coaching through a particular life season and desiring an ally while journeying through the vast territories of one’s wild soulscape. This is akin to an anam cara relationship. The Gaelic word for soul is anam and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the “soul friend.” In the early Celtic church, a person who acted as a teacher, companion, or spiritual guide was called an anam cara. In Wild Thresholds we look for this anam cara relationship beyond our human-made walls and relationships, and recover sacred guidance and teaching from the wild world as well. Within this holy relationship, I companion you across thresholds, accompany you through the vast terrain of your inner nature, and offer teaching around the tenants of a sacred ecological worldview.
Conversational space will be held to listen deeply to one’s soul as a portal to the anima mundi, the world soul. This work is done through dialectic conversation, practicing ceremony, dream work, seasonally connecting rituals, mythopoetic development, sacred phenomenology, hero/ione’s journey framework, and nature-based prayers and practices. For those who are engaged in the Rewilding Wheel, these sessions can go deeper into that sacred circuit of practice as well.
1:1 Eco-Spiritual Companionship & Coaching
15 minute complimentary call
6 Wild Soul Guidance sessions (60 mins) Zoom or in person minimum
6 $100/per session USD to be completed within 6 months
Sessions scheduled as needed within a six month period
Insurance is not accepted
Wild Taproots
A Wild Taproots session is designed for people who want to tap deep into a particular topic, inquiry, longing, ritual, ceremony or consulting project. If you already have a solid understanding of what you want, but are in need of support to gain momentum or sustain clarity, this deepening session is for you. We’ll journey together to co-create outcomes that align with your wild imagination! In our 90 minutes together we’ll send our roots down quickly to connect to Source and work together to rise rooted like trees. If you are well on your journey’s way and simply need a way-side companion, or if you are in need of the immediate benefits of being wildly witnessed, or perhaps want some consulting for your own project or work, this session is for you. Together we’ll put our ears to the Sacred Earth and listen for what wants to come through your wild and precious life!
Past Wild Taproots sessions have involved co-creation of a personal eco-grief ritual; coming of age rites of passage and rites of remembrance experiences; working with a particular aspect of one’s mythopoetic identity; co-creating structure for an organization’s retreat; consulting on personal projects related to sacred land solidarity, land ceremonies, and rituals; advising/teaching on key theories related to converting to a sacramental worldview.
1:1 Eco-Spiritual Companionship, Coaching, Teaching, and/or Consulting
15 minute complimentary call
1 Wild Soul Guidance session (90 mins) Zoom or in person
$150/session USD
Sessions scheduled as needed.
Insurance is not accepted.
The Role of a Wild Soul Guide | A Note from Mary DeJong
My work is to serve as an attuning presence to the Sacred within the natural world, partnering with you and the more-than-human beings to interpret and discern the wisdom that resides there. Through deep listening, attuned conversations, guided practices in nature, and exercises that connect you to both your inner and outer worlds, I aim to accompany you on a journey back to a sense of whole and joyful belonging with the earth. I embrace the wild, wonder-filled world as a primary scripture—sacred writings and holy speech gifted to us to live well and flourish alongside the entire assembly of creation. My unique blend of training, practice, and theory makes my guidance and companionship well-suited and respected in this emerging field.
In a Wild Soul Guidance relationship, your personal stories are honored and held within the larger collective context of the more-than-human world, helping to heal the isolation felt by so many as they are re-membered to the whole community of creation. This more-than-human community—Nature, myself as your guide, and you as the guided participant—collaborates to discern the wisdom of the Sacred Wild. There is an understanding that your pain, suffering, beauty, and gifts are intimately connected with this radical immanence. The gifts that emerge through your healing and transformation are essential not only for your personal well-being but also for the well-being of our communities and the hope for a flourishing future for all beings.
Wild Soul Guidance is akin to sacred eco-therapy or eco-spiritual direction. Wild Soul Guidance is NOT psychotherapy.
About Mary DeJong
Mary DeJong is a trained ecotheologian, spiritual ecologist, eco-spiritual companion and spiritual coach who comes out of the Christian mystical tradition within an animist framework. Mary holds a BA in English Literature; Masters in Theology & Culture with a focus in Eco-Theology and Eco-Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology; post-graduate certificates in Ecology & Religion from Yale’s School of Forestry & Religion; and EcoPsychology and Advanced Applied Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute; and has completed the three-year cycle of School of Celtic Consciousness with John Philip Newell. She has received training through Animas Valley Institute in the Way of Council and Art of Mirroring. Mary is a regular contributor with SDI (Spiritual Directors International) through their podcast series, webinars, and conferences bringing eco-spiritual companionship into the conversation. She is a trained urban naturalist and Forest Steward through the City of Seattle’s Green Seattle Partnership. Learn more about Mary.
“As an eco-theologian and spiritual ecologist I understand how the stories we tell about the Sacred impact how we understand ourselves and our place in this world. When stories and cosmologies are told that continue to perpetuate our separation from our home planet, we will continue to be estranged, acting out in dominion and oppression. The emerging field of eco-psychology affirms that our holistic wellness is inherently connected to the wellness of the more-than-human world. The exciting intersection of this work is the deep looking into our personal stories and narratives of the Divine, and finding how the threads weft and weave through the lands of our ancestors, the trees of our childhood, and the rapidly changing environments of our present lives. How can we change our stories of disconnection into profound belonging? How does this narrative work impact radical social and cultural transformation? How will the Sacred Wild re-member yourself to your soul and the very soil of your life? A new story of reconnection, often discovered through a Wild Soul Guidance relationship, will strengthen one’s relationship with the natural world in profound and unexpected ways.”
“Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature, daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?”
