A Journey Rooted in Healing, Nature, and Sacred Design
By Giovana Lippi, LMHC, CIMHP, Holistic Therapist & Founder of Back to the Garden of Eden
What if healing wasn’t something you searched for, but something you remembered — a garden you return to, a place inside you that never left?
As a holistic therapist, certified permaculture designer, and visionary founder of Back to the Garden of Eden, my mission is to guide individuals — especially women — back to this sacred space: where the body remembers safety, the soul finds rest, and the spirit reconnects with its Creator.
Today, I write not only to share my journey but to extend a heartfelt invitation to Alejandra and Chepe Putzu, founders of the Legendary Movement, whose mission deeply resonates with mine. I believe we are being called to co-create the “Women of the Valley” experience — a powerful convergence of restoration, identity, and faith.
A Holistic, Trauma-Informed Approach Rooted in Nature and Spirit
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (MA & FL), with a master’s degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology and multiple certifications including:
* Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP)
* ARCH Life Coaching (Awareness, Resilience, Compassion, Healing)
* Permaculture Design with Kay Cafasso (2016)
* Trauma-Informed Care, Narrative Therapy, and IFS (Internal Family Systems)
My work is a blend of evidence-based modalities and intuitive, spiritually centered healing methods. I help clients navigate anxiety, trauma, depression, identity crises, and emotional exhaustion by weaving together tools from psychology, nutrition, earth medicine, and biblical spirituality.
Back to the Garden of Eden: A Vision for Regenerative Healing
Back to the Garden of Eden is not just a project — it is a sacred blueprint. It was born from the desire to reconnect people with God, nature, and their original identity. Through:
* Therapeutic education
* Retreats
* Permaculture and regenerative land design
* Holistic and somatic practices
We aim to restore the Divine order: body in balance, soul at rest, and spirit aligned with purpose.
This vision echoes Carl Jung’s understanding of the sacred feminine — intuitive, fertile, cyclical, relational, and deeply healing. In returning to the Garden (physically and metaphorically), we return to the womb of creation. We reconnect not only with who we are, but whose we are.
A Legacy of Healing and Sacred Stewardship
I walk in the footsteps of a family of healers. My great-grandfather, Dr. Gaston Pereira da Silva, was a pioneer who introduced Freudian psychoanalysis to Brazil and authored over 50 books to democratize mental health for the common person. My grandfather, Max Nascimento, practiced hypnotherapy. I carry their legacy forward through the lens of conscious, Spirit-led therapy, honoring both ancestral knowledge and divine wisdom.
My training in Permaculture Design taught me that healing isn’t just internal — it’s ecological. While living in Massachusetts, I cultivated a community garden that served as both sanctuary and classroom, where I witnessed how tending soil mirrors tending the soul.
The Healing Power of Frequency & the Word
In the Gospel of John, we read:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… Through Him all things were made.”
Creation began with frequency — the spoken Word. Today, I integrate this spiritual truth through frequency healing, using tools like the InHarmony Meditation Cushion, which delivers vibroacoustic therapy to calm the nervous system and help the body attune to peace.
When combined with prayer and intention, clients experience a return to coherence — a moment where their body, mind, and spirit come into sacred alignment.
What It’s Like to Work With Me
I offer a warm, culturally sensitive, and spiritually grounded therapeutic space, especially for women navigating:
* Trauma and burnout
* Identity struggles
* Spiritual reconnection
* Relationship and emotional wounding
* Life transitions
As a native Portuguese speaker, I also offer care to immigrant women navigating the emotional complexities of cross-cultural life.
My style is compassionate, clear, and often infused with humor. I meet clients as they are — not to fix them, but to walk with them as they return to their own inner Eden.
Why I’m Called to Collaborate on the “Women of the Valley”
Alejandra and Chepe Putzu have built a movement that honors the ascension of men. I believe it is now time to create the experience of descent — the valley — for women. A place where we don’t rise by striving, but by remembering. Where we heal in community, re-rooted in faith, soil, stillness, and sisterhood.
Together, we could co-create a living retreat experience where women:
* Awaken to their divine design
* Reclaim their sacred identity
* Reconnect with God through nature, prayer, nourishment, and storytelling
* Experience rest and revelation, restoration and rewilding
This would be Back to the Garden of Eden in motion — an invitation for women to come home to themselves, to the land, and to the heart of the Father.
Final Words
My life’s work is about building bridges between psychology, spirit, and stewardship — restoring what was lost, healing what was wounded, and remembering what was true all along.
If you’re called to walk into the Valley with women, I am ready to co-create that space with you.
We can’t go back to the 4000 BC Garden of Eden, before the fall, or a Renascence painting version of the Women of the Valley garden, however, we can use technology available to build the future 2030 AD Eden Sanctuary if we bring our inner selves Back to the Garden of Eden. We just have to know what we are looking for and that it is not an utopia dream. Let’s build something eternal.
Giovana Lippi, LMHC, CIMHP
Founder of Back to the Garden of Eden
www.backtothegardenofeden.org |
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