02/09/2026
Wednesday Wellbeing -
Working with your hands👏🏼🙌🏻🪵
It’s definitely a form of Mindfulness. 🧘♀️
When we use our hands to create something tangible, we are connecting our mind to our actions undertaken by our hands. So then, you cannot, and ideally should not, be thinking about other stuff like the past or future or your worries.🌟
Bill is a certified ocean engineer and a carpenter, amongst other things. And in between those paths, he worked in corporate environments. And since several years, he’s an independent coach. 🥰
Since living here, at our retreat center, he works part time on the computer as a coach (he coaches women in STEM) and when he has time between his calls, he steps outside...and he gets working with his hands!🚶🌳🙌🏻
Bill’s very grateful to not be in any corporate office!! Instead he chooses to be outside, working with his hands whenever he chooses.💞
He plans, creates structures which he builds, and he fixes things that need it.✨🔧🔩
That’s when I see the engineer and the carpenter in him. 👏🏼🙏🏼
It takes total focus to chop wood. 🪵⛏
You can’t be thinking about that conversation you had last week or the state of the world when you are positioning the log that your axe is going to splinter!
We have chickens and they have a fantastic chicken run, thanks to Bill. 🐥🥚🐔
They are now safe and I don’t have to rush out the door to make sure the chicken coop is closed for the night because they are always safe!🏃🏼🐔👏🏼🙏🏼
We have an oak forest, and since we need dry wood for the fireplaces, Bill recently designed and built the woodshed you can see here. It’s now fully stocked up with firewood for the start of the winter season 🪵
It does the body and mind good to work with your hands. I’m sure any artist, musician or cook will tell you the same.🧘♀️🙏
Do you have a hobby or job that allows you to work with your hands to create something tangible?
Oh, and maybe you want to come in Spring or Autumn and get working on outdoor projects together ? That can be a kind of retreat. Not kidding! It’s an idea.✨
