This Wonderful World is a community arts project that serves hope and heart to our challenges and changes with songs, stories, poems and pictures of loving (our) nature.

Check out how This Wonderful World can support you:

• For Caring Folks Who Could Use Some Help with Mental Health: Many of us who care for our planet and people struggle with mental health. No matter the cause, the result is the same: it’s hard to function, serve, and be alive when we’re suffering from relentless anxiety and/or depression. This Wonderful World offers content, tools and practices that cultivate the hope, joy, and confidence that’s needed to carry us through our challenges. Please note: This Wonderful World is NOT meant to replace professional psychological help. Please see a licensed professional for treatment.

• For Folks who Care About the Environment

  • Nature-Nerd Newbies: So many of us want to show our love for nature, but don’t know how. With This Wonderful World, you’ll gain foundational ecological understandings that give you the confidence to meaningfully and tangibly support your local habitat with your own two hands (no prior nature-nerding necessary)

  • Experienced Nature-Nerds: As experienced nature-nerds, the desire to share our passion for the Earth can be intense -and frustrating. In This Wonderful World you’ll gain tools to keep hope alive within you, and to share your love in ways that deeply connect us to each other, and to the Earth.

• for People Who Care About Peace: In our painfully polarized world, peace can feel like a pipe-dream. It can be disheartening. In This Wonderful World, you’ll gain creative reflection tools (for making peace within yourself) and creative communication tools (for sharing that peace in your community).

• for Creatives Looking for Tools, Inspirations & Community

  • New Creators: This Wonderful World is here to empower you with tools and practices to develop a creative lifestyle. Before our creations become a product, our creative process is a way of life that supports self-care and meaningful connection to the world around us (no prior talent/experience required).

  • Experienced Creators: Creative blocks can be frustrating. In This Wonderful World, you’re supported in keeping your inspirations flowing with practices and reassurances that nurture the heart of your art as a form of self-care and as a genuine (and essential!) service to the world that you love so much.

Discover & Create This Wonderful World with Me

You’re invited into the wonderful world that comes alive when we find love for (our) nature everywhere:

• Foundations to This Wonderful World of reflective arts for loving (our) nature

• Self-Love: the creative adventure to loving (our) nature starts here

• Nature-Love: ecological notes on seeing (our) nature in the big picture

• Reflective Arts: the songs, stories, poems & pictures of loving (our) nature

• Community: cuz we need each other, and it’s so much better together

Listen to Alana’s Musical Diary

Alana’s intimate musical diary as she adventures through life’s changes and challenges with songs and stories of loving (our) nature.

Alana's Musical Diary

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About Me, Alana

With a mom who got me into community theater and a dad who got me into his family’s environmental camp, I was born to merge my love for the Earth, and its people, with the arts.

Still, coming from a family of educators, I started life as a credentialed public school teacher. However, budget cuts, illness, and calling to write and sing for peace sent me on an epic adventure of personal healing where I was guided by the question:

“What does it really mean that peace begins with me?”

In the process, I was certified as a Depth Hypnosis Practitioner, a therapeutic process (developed by Dr. Isa Gucciardi) that's rooted in transpersonal psychology, hypnotherapy, and the wisdom traditions from many cultures around the world.

Not long after, I studied Storybridge, a creative approach to social and personal transformation through community storytelling.

Along the way, I also studied environmental stewardship, environmental education, and community permaculture.

Meanwhile, my commitment to reflective arts has helped me to heal from debilitating anxiety and depression, as well to as grow peace in the foundational relationships that were impacted by my mental illness.

To share my love and gratitude, I began developing The Living Mirror Project with songwriting and storytelling workshops to support the communities who so generously support this work.

You can follow my ongoing journey here on Substack in This Wonderful World, a living musical of how the metaphors of the Earth fortify my faith in myself, in life, and in the transformational realization that love for one is love for all.

I’m so grateful to share the miracle of the Living Mirror at a time when growing love has never been more essential.