Dear Shirley:

What a life! I understand and admire your parents’ focus on your education and to that end, they need to be gentler with you and understand that you need down times and a social life and spending time in nature… I can see how you do need time in nature, in the silence of the forest. If you had a photo or a drawing of a forest, trees, in your room or to carry with you to look at when you are distressed, to connect with the image of being rooted in the ground like a tree, no matter the wind.

Is there a hiking club in your school? There is a lot of nature where I live and I take two hikes a day around here and still I am anxious sometimes. Right now, actually.

Till later:

anita