Mindfulscape Blog
This nature-centered blog is a collection of insights that support both mental health and nature.
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You are invited to consider these works with an understanding that mental well-being and the sustainability of our natural environments are deeply connected.​
Wisdom from Elders
The elders mindfully invited for this blog have many seasons of lived experience inspiring and guiding those around them to fulfill their unique altruistic vision aligned with who they naturally are while sustainably grounded and centered on community and collective spirit.
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Written interviews in progress.
Mindfulscape Logo
In 2024, I re-created the Mindfulscape logo from a desire to express my cultural heritage after creating the logo for Kasamahan, a Filipino/a/x mental health nonprofit.
The outline is in the Ma character in Baybayin, a Filipino script predating Spanish colonization of the Philippines, and a window. They mindfully frame a body of water and green elevation on a foggy day. This nature-centered art represents a deep well of inner knowing sustaining personal and collective health and growth even amidst surrounding uncertainty.
Both my paternal ancestral land at the feet of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range Philippines, east of Manila, and my present-day home in the Texas hill country to the west of Austin, Texas are landscapes composed of ocean life created limestone which allows for pockets of life sustaining, vibrant spring waters.
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As an early student of Baybayin, I consulted those who are more knowledgeable regarding the Ma character in my logo shortly after it was created.
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"Ma can be like a container. 'Malakas siya' or 'they are strong' or 'they contain strength'. 'Maganda siya' or 'they are beautiful' or 'they contain beauty'." From Omehra Sigahne during a local walk. She is Co-Founder of the Center for Babaylan Studies nonprofit and artist of their logo.
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"When I think of Ma, I think of malay... meaning to be conscious or aware." From Carl Cervantes, researcher of Philippine folk psychology when I attended his Sikodiwa group.
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I connect Ma with being. Maalala or "to remember" or "to be remembering" which goes into maalalahanin or "to be considerate" or "to be mindful".
Remembering who we already are while mindfully being in the present may be the way to fully being or being fulfilled which is a journey therapy can support.