Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Life is beautiful. It's also messy, overwhelming, and raw, and that's ok; it's meant to be. The thing is, everyone you see thriving out there, isn't doing it alone, and there's no reason you should have to either. From this point forward, we show up, and we do it together.

Finding My Way Back

I'm Heather Anne Hendrie, a Registered Clinical Counsellor, award-winning author, speaker and True Nature Practitioner.

For years, I thought I needed to work harder, try harder and fix the parts of myself that didn't seem to fit. It took me a long time to realise I wasn't broken. I had simply become disconnected from who I was underneath all the noise.

That realisation became the thread running through my life and my work.

I call it the True Nature Path.

It's a belief that we are born whole. That somewhere beneath the expectations, conditioning and stories we've picked up along the way, we still know who we are.

My work is about creating spaces where we can slow down, tell the truth, reconnect and find our way back.

About Me

Where the Eff Is My Red Tent?

Where the Eff Is My Red Tent? is my memoir about PMDD, menstrual health and what happens when women's experiences aren't heard.

It's also an invitation to a bigger conversation about women's health, lived experience and what happens when we finally start listening.

Book Launch

What if the problem wasn't you?

You are not broken. You never were.

The Daily Grind...

Sometimes it's like we're in this box. We're surrounded by rules and expectations. We're meant to conform to these societal norms that tell us who we are meant to be, who we are meant to love, and how we are meant to do it. Realistically, we weren't meant to be in a box at all. We were meant to show off our uniqueness, but instead we struggle to find happiness in our communities, careers, and relationships. This daily grind wears us down faster than most because it cuts right to the heart of our sense of belonging, leaving us feeling like our life unlived.

People shouldn't just be striving to survive. You were meant to thrive.

Different Trailheads, Same Destination

I'm a True Nature Practitioner, and the True Nature Path is the belief underneath everything I do: you were born whole. Healing isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about reconnecting with what's already there

I believe we all find our way through life by different trailheads. For some, it might be therapy. For others, it's storytelling, creativity, community, nature or simply finding the right words for something they've carried for years.

My projects are different expressions of that same belief. Each one explores another way of reconnecting with ourselves, our stories and each other.

Because there isn't one path home. We each find our own trailhead.

True Nature Wilderness Therapy

When we step outside, something shifts. Nature gives us space to breathe, move, notice and listen more closely.

True Nature Wilderness Therapy brings counselling into that space. Rooted in humanistic and mindfulness-based therapy, it combines the therapeutic relationship with the grounding, perspective and possibility that can come from being in nature.

At its heart is the belief that we are whole people, not problems to be fixed. Through walking, talking and paying attention to what emerges along the way, we can reconnect with the wisdom, strengths and sense of self already within us.

The path isn't about becoming someone new. It's about finding your way back to who you are.

Step Into True Nature

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Awfully Hilarious

I've spent a lot of my life thinking about the things we're taught to hide.

Awfully Hilarious is about honest stories that make space for the things we don't always talk about: sex, periods, dating, motherhood, women's health, mental health and all the wonderfully messy bits in between.

Some are hilarious. Some are heartbreaking. Some are both.

Tragedy + Time = Comedy.

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