My partner and I started foraging together two years ago and it was this magical thing we discovered - we'd spend whole Sundays wandering the woods, finding mushrooms and wild garlic, coming home exhausted and dirty and so happy. Now we go through the motions but we're always checking our phones, arguing about whether something is safe to pick, and last weekend we barely spoke for three hours and I realized we've turned our favorite thing into another chore we're grimly completing together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Sometimes the very practices that once brought us alive together become infected by the heaviness we carry, and we forget that play itself can be medicine.
“Where Are You with Foraging and wild food?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.