Ponder While We Wander

Ponder While We Wander

This is where we have explored and recorded topics that open our curiosity and find connection to outside spaces. We will also connect with others who inspire us and walk new paths literally and figuratively. Come listen! ponderwhilewewander.com

Episodes

November 16, 2025 49 mins

Location: Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, CA, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

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Amber and Natasha explore the challenges and human connection to the universal experience of grief. They touch on the different types of grief, how we grieve, and why it is important to acknowledge it when it shows up. Our relationship with nature can provide ways of incorporating ritual and meaning-making in...

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Location: Captain Whidbey, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

 

Natasha and Amber travel to a magical place by ferry and, fueled by a couple cups of coffee, ponder the significance of coffee. They explore the ritual and magic of connecting over a warm beverage. Can a cup of coffee connect us to ourselves, loved ones, strangers, the whole world? Grab a be...

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October 15, 2025 26 mins

Location: Discovery Bay, Washington, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

 

Come see how noticing our discomfort can invite us into deeper connection with nature as we ponder by the shore where birds, seals, and other than human nature join us. 

 

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October 1, 2025 31 mins

Location: Fort Flagler Historical State Park, Washington, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

 

Natasha and Amber visit a place where the ocean meets forest to tune into birds as a way of intentionally paying attention and deepening how we make meaning in our lives. Come listen to the topic and the birds! 

 

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September 15, 2025 37 mins

Location: Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

 

Natasha and Amber amble along in the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island, Washington, USA and explore creativity as an important force for individuals and humanity as a whole. If you are looking for an invitation or support to sink into your creativity, you’ll definitely want to ...

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September 1, 2025 28 mins

Location: Penn Cove, Washington, USA

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/

 

Rest is important, so why is it so hard? Amber and Natasha discuss some of the messages and individual and collective challenges to getting rest and give some examples of nature that invite us to take a deeper perspective to rest.

 

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Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa

Location:  Ft Townsend, Port Townsend, WA

 

Come walk with us while we explore the “love of life” humans have with natural environments. Amber and Natasha share ways in which this enhances our lives and can be integrated into everyday living. We find some banana slugs, evidence of other animals around, and breathe in the forest air, and you’re invited to come along!

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Schmitz Preserve Park

Seattle, WA- USA

 

Is it time for a relationship check-in with nature?

 

Have you thought about your relationship with the outside world lately? What happens when we shift from inside to outside? What if our connection with nature was more relational than transactional? We explore this and more as we walk a muddy trail in Seattle, WA- USA.

 

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Denny Park

Seattle, WA- USA

 

Join us for a discussion where we explore what labyrinths are, how you can walk them, and how walking them can be an important contemplative practice for our times. 

 

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Seattle, Washington-USA

Discovery Park

 

We explore the topic of how we do hard things as we launch our discussion from an article of a study about social support and our perception of how steep a hill can be. There are also some surprise raccoons. Come explore if it matters who you’re standing next to or not when we do hard things! 

 

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Seattle, Washington-USA

Discovery Park

 

Jumping off of the work of Dr. Vaughan Wilkins and the field of applied Ecopsychology, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa explore the theme of Enculturated Zoochosis. Metaphors applicable to living in modernity and the challenges we may be having are discussed while observing some of the urban wildlife of Discovery Park in Seattle, WA. Could we be experiencing collective trauma? If so, what a...

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Welcome to Ponder While We Wander, a container for invitations and  inspiration for connection to ourselves, others, and nature. This video gives you an introduction to us, how we got here, some of  our hopes, and an introduction to the podcast Ponder While We Wander.

 

This is a project of love from two friends who happen to be therapists, and we’re looking forward to seeing where it goes.

 

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Natasha Morisa...

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