Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center

08/02/2026

Thank you SASHA Farm Animal Sanctuary !!
Beautiful event!!

07/28/2026

07/24/2026

Your dreams are about your becoming-God has placed a dream on your heart before you were born. That dream is about the calling and unfolding of your soul.
I hope you really take in those words.... and maybe even resurrect a dream you once let die.
In 2010, I caught a dream of Mother Bear Sanctuary, a place where people could come to restore connection to themselves, to one another, and to the Earth. This land and space belongs the community and I'm so grateful for the emergence here now!
When I caught that dream, I asked the Divine to reveal ANYTHING that would obscure or block it. I asked to be shown what I needed to see, to metabolize what needed healing, and to be guided every step of the way.
I was led to earn a degree in ecopsychology. Then 2016 the Self-Acceptance Process became national podcasts, books, and work that reached thousands of people.

Then came another unexpected invitation.
I was told to give it all away for a while.
I sold my house. I gave away most of my belongings. I waited for the land to appear.
In 2018, the land arrived. So did my co-founder and partner, Dave Tuscany.

Together we had so much to learn. We had to grow into the kind of people who could hold a community where others could safely do deep inner work, awaken their gifts, and restore their relationship with the more-than-human world.
Dave and I have broken up and gotten back together more times than I can count between 2018-2021
I'll say ten. He'll probably say twenty.😂😂😁

But each time we chose to return to our inner work, God and mentors/teachers. We asked, What are we not seeing in ourselves?
Our closest relationships are the greatest mirrors of our blind spots. Humbly admitting that, allows us to grow into a more embodied Love and God

Now, sixteen years later, Mother Bear Sanctuary is serving many safe houses by providing ecotherapy day retreats for survivors of human trafficking and veterans. (Your donation supports this work!)
Many many many people have told us: "If I had this additional ecotherapy and mindfulness tools at the beginning of my healing journey, facing my trauma would have been easier."

At Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center we also offer programs and deep-dive retreats for anyone longing to reconnect with themselves, with nature, and with Life.

There were many moments when I may have been tempted to think this challenge ...This situation wasn't supposed to be part of the dream.
Healing/remembering in my body what it meant to be labor trafficked, or the many break ups with Dave. I could have reasonably given up hope.
But I stayed open.
I stayed in faith.
And I allowed each challenge to become part of my becoming rather than the end of my story.
Don't give up on your dream.
God placed it on your heart for a reason.
There is a unique gift that can only be expressed through you.

Our greatest ability... is availability. There is a Grace, a divine order or harmonizing principle that is constantly working. Learning to meet the pain and challenges by being resourced with nature, community and self-acceptance is a vital vital vital key component to metabolizing and using the trauma and challenge- instead of it using you. You ARE loaded and coded with a divine destiny. It's time to come out of fighting with circumstances and be the visionary and healer you were born to be. It starts with self love and getting self regulated. Be responsive rather than reactive so that you can hear the guidance always being given through your intuition.
Let your tombstones become stepping stones.
Stay open. ❤️

If you'd like to volunteer or offer a donation to Mother Bear. Link is below.

How YOU can help – Mother Bear Sanctuary & Retreat Center https://share.google/vRZiQHCqABpBAyni4

August 3rd HAY DAY come help with hay, we usually have many hands so even if you just want to cheer people on. Time TBA (I'll update post soon)

August 15 FIRE walk with Dave Tuscany
Starts 6pm!!! 🔥 🔥

Sept 12th 12-4 radical self love and ecotherapy
led by me, God, Angels and nature

Thursdays 6-8 on zoom Mother Bear Ubuntu Crew- chi Cong, channeled messages from God/nature from me, meditation, and parts healing

Sept 25-27 intimacy with yourself, Nature, God, and Each other
Deep dive Retreat. Eco-psychology, community healing rituals, internal family systems, consent teachings and conscious communication practices
Led by myself and Dave!!

07/22/2026

You thought you were dead. 😵
Life chopped you down to a mere stump.
Yet, there was still a calling in you,
To become the tree of life.
You didn’t want to keep trying.
Then something deeper took over.
You allowed it.
Not believing it was ever possible,
To transform as you have.
Life shines through you now,
With undeniable beauty. 🌳

Keep growing.
All is possible!!
Miracles abound!! ❤️
Poem and REAL picture by
Sherry Oehler

Sept 12 12-4
Radical Self Love and ecotherapy

Sept 26-28
3 day deep dive
Intimacy with yourself, each other and the Earth

07/20/2026

Mother Bears Sacred In and Out --July Retreat was amazing! Realizing our gifts in service to humanity is courageous inner work!! So impressed with this group!
Retreats include: depth ecology, parts healing, self acceptance process, community ceremony intergenerational healing, chi Cong and transformational breath work.
Why do Inner work?
We are born to become distribution points of love, beauty, abundance, creativity and to offer our unique gifts in only the way we can.
We awaken this potential through courageous inner work, community connection, and sacred service and by doing so become living authentic demonstrations of Love on this planet.
Love IS the most intelligent and powerful force in the universe.
It is a love that offers no resistance to what is, and therefore moves effortlessly with the evolutionary impulse and God Soul force of Life itself.
A fierce gentle love that says:
"I love you, and there is nothing you can do about it."
A love that embraces and LEARNS from our imperfect humanity while never forgetting our divine potential.
A love that knows our inner work is not about becoming worthy of love, but about metabolizing everything that obscures it.

Ready to cultivate a deeper connection?
E mail [email protected]

Thursdays 6-8 zoom
Mother Bear Ubuntu Crew Online Practices:
Meditation, breath work, ecopsychology, parts healing, chi Cong, and inspiring messages
(Mother Bear: compassionate impulse to serve, and protect each other, life and nature.
Ubuntu: "I am because we are.")

Sept 12th 12-4 radical self love and ecotherapy

Sept 25-27
Intimacy 3 Day Retreat!!!
Cultivating connections to yourself, each other, and the Earth.

07/16/2026

I hope the healing herd brings you Joy. I think we all need it right now. I played with them with the hose the other day
before they came out into the yard. They were all having quite the party!
Sending you love ❤️

September 12th 12-4pm
Radical self-love and ecotherapy retreat

If you'd like to support our work with animal rescue and free ecotherapy Healing Retreats for human trafficking survivors,
please donate now
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07/16/2026

The sun blotted out by smoke. Sending love and Angels to everyone living with the discomfort and uncertainty of the Canadian wildfires. Oh, how we have desecrated our beautiful Earth, creating such imbalance. May more people awaken to the Love that lives within them. As I cared for the sanctuary animals today, I could also feel the suffering of the countless wild animals, birds, and hatchlings breathing this smoke and ash.

It has been both a blessing and a burden to feel as deeply as I do and to experience the world the way I do. I never had a corporate job, don't think I could. The truth is, every time I have followed the joyful dream God placed in my heart, while also dream of meeting the needs of humanity....I have been provided for, even when it meant giving away nearly everything I owned and trusting that the land for Mother Bear Sanctuary would appear.

Feeling so deeply, sensing people's energy, has become a gift in helping others remember their innate worth and divine preciousness. But it has also required one of the greatest lessons of my life: learning to honor my nervous system. I have had to take breaks, learn what supplements my body needed, limit social activity when needed, and meet the fragility of my own sensory system with compassion rather than shame.

Earlier in the first decade of my healing journey was learning to discern what is true intuition and what is simply trauma asking for healing. Many people who call themselves empaths are actually suffering in chronic hypervigilance, constantly scanning everyone around them for danger. That is not healthy.

Today, looking across Mother Bear Sanctuary and seeing the smoke in the air, I could feel not only the heaviness of the landscape but the suffering carried within it. Thich Nhat Hanh once said that if you want to help the Earth, you must be able to cry with her. St. Francis is often remembered as one whose heart was so open he felt suffering of the grass as he walked on it

I believe the same is true of every community we hope to serve. If you want to serve elders, survivors of human trafficking, veterans, children, animals or anyone, you must be willing to cry with them. To let your heart break open so deeply that something greater than your personal self begins to move through you.
Allow the suffering to transform you rather than being in reaction to it.
From an inner alchemy you access your greatest ability---availability. In conscious surrender you access a Grace that is deeper than pain, wider than suffering, and wiser than fear.

Today, I hope you allow your heart to open just a little more. Instead of running from what makes you sad, instead of numbing or distracting yourself, stay with it for a little while. Let your sadness become a doorway to deeper love, greater courage, and new possibilities rather than an obstacle.

Love 🐻🩷BWC
Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center
Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center

07/16/2026

Dalai and I hope you spread more love than hate today. More kindness than judgment. May your presence leave the world, and your own heart, a little more whole.
Love is never wasted. It doesn't disappear. It is carried forward through every person and every animal it has touched. Love is not a flaccid platitude. It is a living, intelligent force, stronger than fear, stronger than shame, stronger than hate.

Choose love. Again and again. Give love without attachment to outcomes, and let it become your way of being. That is how heaven begins to take form within us. That is how purpose becomes simple.

To love.

From that pure intention, your unique gifts, your mission, and your deepest offering naturally take form.

(And before I get the comments... unconditional love includes your "no." Love without discernment is often just people-pleasing in disguise.. People pleasing is a trauma response)

With love from Dalai and me, beside the fire, beneath the sunset, after a long, hot day. 🩷🔥🌅