about

Hi, I’m Adrienne. My life has been shaped by years of listening more and more deeply to one simple question: what does it mean to live in relationship with the land, and with the more-than-human world?

For a long time, that question simply echoed back to me across the landscape. It was a practice of patience and humility. There were layers to unravel and ways of being to unlearn. Over time, the question became more intimate: what does it mean for this body to be in relationship with this land, at this particular moment? That subtle shift continues to shape the way I live and the way I accompany others.

I live with my family in western Massachusetts, on lands holding deep Indigenous histories that remain present in the life of this place and the people who make their home here. It’s here that I’m learning what it means to belong through relationship rather than possession, and what reciprocity asks of me.

I have had many teachers along the way, and my work has been shaped by many currents. The earliest of these were the woods, streams, stones, and seasons that first taught me how to listen. As I grew into myself, experiences of queerness and gender fluidity helped me unlearn rigid binaries and more deeply appreciate the diversity of forms a life can take. Over the years, I have also been fortunate to learn within communities devoted to contemplative practice, eco-spirituality, and embodied ways of knowing.

My formation as an Eco-Spiritual Companion and Wild Guide through the Center for Wild Spirituality gave language, structure, and community to a way of listening that had long been unfolding. My practice also draws on training in body-based psychotherapy with the Hartford Family Institute and through the Anam Cara mentorship program at the Lotus Institute. Together, these experiences continue to deepen the way I listen, nurturing trust in the wisdom of body, relationship, and the living world.

At the center of my life and work is the ongoing apprenticeship of ordinary life. I return, each day, to small practices of attention: noticing seasonal shifts, listening for birdsong at dawn, tending relationship with the places that hold my life. These practices continue to teach me, quietly shaping the way I accompany others.

If something in these words resonates with you, I would be honored to walk alongside you for a time.