Field Notes on Letting Go
When my 25-year marriage fell apart, my life came crumbling down. As I sat in the rubble, I realized that the only way to move forward was to confront a painful past and learn to let go. Leaving my 33-year career in health care sustainability, I headed to Hawaii to put an end to what was and find the beginning of what’s next.
Embarking on a vision quest, I immersed myself in the natural world and received a message of trust and divine guidance. I started to see nature as a safe place to learn valuable lessons for navigating life and healing. I offer hope and insights through inspirational essays and heart-centered stories to help others feel less alone with life’s challenges and instead embrace difficult life experiences as initiations, offering wisdom and hidden gifts. On my spiritual journey, I realized that, creating real change in the world, - environmentally, socially, politically, spiritually, - starts with ourselves. Heal ourselves, heal each other, and heal the world.
Field Notes on Letting Go is for people that want to drop the script they’ve been forced to follow, write a new narrative, and live free from fear. It is accompanied by Field Notes on Letting Go - A Pondering Workbook for further exploration of the landscape of life, connection to nature, and to your inner child for healing and personal freedom.
Field Notes on Letting Go - A memoir of truth-seeking, healing, and personal freedom - Released in 2023, the two books are designed to be used together - reading and writing. In 2025 released updated edition with writing prompts included in the memoir.
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What People Are Saying
“Field Notes on Letting Go is a luminous meditation on transformation, an intimate chronicle of how release becomes renewal, and how truth, when faced with courage, can restore both heart and spirit. Through your deeply personal journey, you invite readers to walk alongside you through loss, discovery, and the quiet grace of reconnection with the natural world.
What stands out most is how seamlessly you weave emotional honesty with elemental wisdom. The way you listen to the rhythms of the earth, and let nature become both mirror and mentor, gives this work a timeless resonance. Each reflection feels like a field note from the soul, a record of how surrender can open the door to serenity, and how stillness can guide us home to ourselves.
Your memoir offers not only comfort, but also clarity: a gentle reminder that letting go is not the end of the story, but the sacred beginning of a truer one.
I’m Dale Hill, curating features for Books You Should Have Read in High School East Coast, a community of 1,341 members who engage with works that awaken empathy, intellect, and spiritual reflection. Field Notes on Letting Go embodies that purpose beautifully speaking to anyone seeking to heal, to grow, and to remember their place in the living world.”