Mindfulscape Blog
This blog is a collection of insights that support both mental health and nature during a time of continued exploitation of both by dominant structures in place, and is informed by earned clinical expertise and lived experience, and wisdom generously passed down from elders.
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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. Our ancestors have intuitively known this, and this knowing is highly relevant with present-day reality and with future generations.​
Upcoming: An Interview
Anticipated by the end of this year. More information soon.
Mindfulscape Logo
In 2024, I re-created the Mindfulscape logo to express my cultural heritage after creating the logo for Kasamahan, a Filipino/a/x mental health nonprofit. The shape is in the Ma character in Baybayin, a Filipino script predating Spanish colonization of the Philippines, and a window. Both mindfully outlines and frames a body of water and green elevation on a foggy day. These elements represent 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, TX are landscapes composed of limestone which allows for pockets of vivid blue and turquoise-colored 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.
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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, Co-Founder of Center for Babaylan Studies nonprofit and artist for their logo after sharing my logo during a local walk.
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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.