About Your Guide

Nancy Chirdon Forster is a certified nature and forest therapy guide.  She lives in Delaware but grew up in a military family that loved traveling and spending much time outdoors.  Her fondest memories of the tour in Japan are of getting into the Jeep with the family and visiting the ocean, lakes, and mountains of this exotic land so different from the country of her ancestors.  

 

As a child, she spent every possible moment alone,  but never really alone.    Animals and plants were everywhere, and she particularly enjoyed spending time up in any tree she could climb.  She enjoyed the quiet and the views until mealtime.

 

As a young woman, she was privileged to work at the White House directly with our President and First Lady and travel all over this country and overseas in Europe and Asia.

 

Years later she indulged her love of food and entertaining by opening a cafe and cooking school in a small Delaware town.  She traveled the world through her recipes. Many years of satisfying, but exhausting, work has brought her back full circle to appreciating and honoring the healing benefits of the natural world.

 

Health concerns arising from stress, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer, focused the mind and brought her to nature and forest therapy.  Time outside, or even seeing the natural world while sitting near a window, was healing.  She now considers herself a Caretaker of this land and all of its growing things.

 

Nancy is a Reiki practitioner and certified in Wilderness First Aid and CPR.