Rewilding over reading, adventure over articles
Your regular reminder to get off this device and go outside!
Welcome to the Monday Thicket! This is a weekly collection of ideological stones, feathers, and bits of fluff gathered from my wanderings.
Each week, we venture into the tangled undergrowth of nature, art, philosophy, and our ever-shifting world, searching for insights worth carrying home. Think of this as a shared foraging expedition where I’ve done the pathfinding, and you get to discover what treasures might be worth adding to your collection.
I almost didn’t write a Monday Thicket this week. I’ve been out on Country for the past 7 days and didn’t think I had anything to recommend. No podcasts, or Substack articles, or witty quotes…
But then I realised I had the ultimate share. An adventure. Memories made. Life lived.
And isn’t that the whole point of sharing things that we love and inspire us? To make us move? To make us feel? To expand us?
So yeah, no homework or content to consume this week. Just a reminder to get outside, go on an adventure and do things that rewild you.
Rewilding was the theme of the hiking retreat I facilitated over the past week. I took a group of young women out into nature and supported them to carry heavy backpacks across a special Australian landscape. From sweaty hill climbs to barefoot wanders to ocean skinny dips, we deepened our connection to our bodies as expressions of nature.
Rewilding is a loaded term and I’m realising it means something slightly different to each of us. I’m currently working on an extended piece on the concept of rewilding, but in the meantime, I’d love to hear from you in the comments on what it means to you to rewild? What words or feelings does it conjure? What does it look like to rewild?
All reflections welcome!
Alright, that’s all for this week!
Catch ya soon,
Jada
Needed this permission so much 💜🙏
Hi dear Jada,
I think what you’re doing is brilliant and deeply important: rediscovering our profound connection with nature. I’ve just returned from leading a retreat focused on yoga, meditation, and reconnecting with nature, where the central theme was returning to ourselves and to the living, intelligent wholeness of nature.
And yes, I guided barefoot hikes, and every day we meditated by trees, along streams, and in sacred landscape-temples. What I’m experiencing is that the time is truly ripe for this, and more and more people are opening to this space.
Thank you for your inspiring writing!