Come Home to Yourself—One WTF Moment at a Time.
Hi, I’m Diane Adams—lifelong social work goddess, mental health maverick, and Zen-inspired disruptor of suffering.
After 28 years married to a wicked smart, smokin’ hot Buddhist monk and decades spent guiding women through PTSD and loss, I’ve learned:
healing doesn’t just happen in a therapist’s chair.
It happens in your car. In your kitchen. In those hilarious, messy, soul-splitting WTF moments when you're cracking open and not sure who you'll become next.
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Let’s talk about DIY Mental Health with Gentle Accountability—because healing can be sacred and a little fun.
🌀 The kettle’s on. The porch swing’s open. Come as you are.
What Is This Place?
Welcome to my world—where weird wisdom, sideways healing, and sacred mischief braid together into one grounded path.
🥇 Beginner’s Grove: For the Boldly Curious
A Sanctuary for Play, Practices & Possibilities.
🌱 The Mothership: Begin With Wild Curiosity
Feeling crispy around the edges? Start here.
Grab the Free Training:
“Nature, Zen & Psychedelics: Because Sometimes the Only Way Home to Yourself Is Through the Wild.”
It’s weird, wise, and doesn’t require you to wear real pants.
If it speaks to your bones, tiptoe into the WTF Is "Enough?" Starter Kit—or head straight to Gaia’s Porch if you're ready for gentle accountability (and maybe some real talk and tea).
🥈 The Practice
Gaia’s Porch: DIY Mental Health with Gentle Accountability
Welcome to my not-a-clinic.
This is where we do 1:1 work—casual, safe, sometimes hilarious, always real.
No jargon. No stuffy waiting rooms. No pretending you're “fine.”
We start with a free 15-minute Discovery Call, where you show up as you are.
We laugh, maybe cry, and see if I’m the right porch to sit on for a spell.
This is soft mentorship, dragon-approved.
I won’t fix you. I’ll walk beside you until you remember who you are.
🥉The Curiosity Cabinet
Two Cent Wisdom Vault (a.k.a. The Rabbit Hole)
Feeling bold? Or bored?
Wander into the Vault—my growing stash of real-talk resources. No fluff.
Inside you’ll find:
✨ Quirky wisdom on intimacy, humor, harm reduction & healing
✨ Tools for the microdose-curious (because dosing your reality can be sacred)
✨ Love notes from me and my favorite misfits (aka Living Treasures)
You can also take the “Are You Microdose Curious?” Quiz—
if only to see what your inner weirdo scores.
🌼 Welcome to Gaia’s Porch
A place to rest, remember, and rebuild.
DIY Mental Health with Gentle Accountability.
Here on Gaia’s Porch, you don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just have to show up — messy, uncertain, burnt out, or boldly curious.
Together, we slow down. We untangle old stories.
We tend to the roots of what’s been long ignored.
This is mental health care that feels more like a kitchen table conversation — barefoot, unscripted, and rooted in real relationship.
☀️ What I Offer
1:1 support through soulful conversation, nervous system tending, inner work tools, and steady companionship. No pressure. Just presence.
🌿 Porch Session
A single 60-minute session — come as you are, leave with a little more clarity (and maybe a breath you forgot you were holding).
🪞 Accountability in Motion
Three 1:1 sessions, spaced every other week, designed to keep you moving toward what actually matters — with me tracking the thread, cheering you on, and gently calling you in (not out).
✨ Ongoing Mentorship
Monthly sessions for support in your healing, creative practice, or business building. Because sometimes we just need someone in our corner, holding the mirror steady.
💸 Let’s Talk Pricing
Sessions slide between $55–$100+hour, depending on your life and livelihood.
🐝 If you're a beekeeper, farmer, or student (or walk the world with that kind of spirit), your sessions are $55/hr — no proof required. I trust you.
Everyone else? $100/hr — still way less than therapy with a billing department.
❌ Insurance is not accepted.
Not because I’m rebellious (okay, maybe a little), but because healing deserves to be personal, not processed through codes and claims.
🌀 Gentle doesn’t mean passive. It means present. Steady. Unrushed.
It means honoring your nervous system, your timing, your truth.
On this porch, we go deep, at your pace — and we laugh a lot along the way.
❤️ Meet Diane
Why listen to me?
My Story
Because I’ve walked through the fire. Lit the match, even. I midwifed my partner’s death with nothing but love, music, and a hospice nurse down the hall. Then I buried a life, sold a dream, hugged my grandson goodbye, and started all over again — in my seventies.
I’ve been a therapist, an educator, a retreat guide, and a licensed “professional everything.”
I’ve also sobbed into soup, danced in parking lots, and chosen curiosity over collapse more times than I can count.
I didn’t pivot — I shape shifted. And now I help the emotionally fluent, spiritually curious, and semi-feral come home to themselves.
Why I Built This Place
I created Beginner’s Grove for seekers, feelers, over thinkers, and recovering perfectionists who know there’s more to life than just surviving it.
How We Help...
I help people unhook from old roles and worn-out stories — and start living with clarity, calm, and deeper self-trust.
You don’t have to perform your way into worthiness here. You just have to begin — with a little Zen, a lot of heart, and full permission to laugh (and moan) along the way.
I’m here to help you change the dial on your life — take responsibility, show up, and create your own peace.
One small practice at a time.
One real WTF moment at a time.
Welcome home.
These hands have done sacred work.
Meet the Michief Makers
Just three humans who know what it’s like to feel stuck…and decided to do something about it.
I’m Diane — feeler, firestarter, and unapologetic line-crosser. I’ve had the wild fortune of walking this path with a few legends:
🎶 Ricky, my music therapist and co-conspirator in radical curiosity.
🌿 April, integration whisperer and brave soul who’s lived the medicine.
🐝 And Sadie — once my retreat massage queen, now beekeeper-realtor-beta muse. She's all heart, all truth, all in.
None of this would exist without them. I don’t walk alone — and neither will you.
With huge gratitude to Sadie, whose willingness to experiment makes the Grove richer.
Beginner’s Grove
💝You’re not here to be perfect. You’re here to be free. 🌱
Do you feel stuck in a life you’re supposed to love… but secretly don’t?
Tired of “working on yourself” but still feeling like something’s missing?
Ever wonder if there’s a way to grow that feels less like fixing yourself — and more like freeing yourself?
There is.
And it’s simpler — and sweeter — than you think.
🚀Freedom is the practice.
🍯 Pleasure is the path.
🌞 Presence is the key.
We help curious humans drop the old scripts — the ones about perfection, performance, and "shoulds" — and come alive, one playful practice at a time.
At Beginner’s Grove, we don’t hand you another formula. We help you build trust in yourself again — through grounded practices, micro-moments of clarity, and soulful shifts that make change feel less like a crisis…and more like a collaboration.
🌻You don’t need to fix yourself. You need to meet yourself — right here, where you already are.
We don’t do hustle, grind, or shame here.
We do light-hearted exploration, bold imperfection, and conscious connection.
This isn’t self-help.
It’s self-coming-alive.
✨ WAY TO WORK WITH US
📚 Quivers & Arrows (a.k.a. Practice Kits) Simple, inner knowing-shifting tools to reset your compass when life feels like too much.
Before: You feel like you’re spinning, unsure where to start.
After: Each Kit gives you a clear place to begin — practices to ground you and wake up what matters.
Pick a practice. Change the channel. Start again.
Mini-adventures to reconnect with your inner compass. Shake off old programming, stir up your senses, and rebuild your trust in what’s real — one small arrow at a time.
Here’s what life felt like before the Starter Kit - and what it feels like after.
WTF IS “ENOUGH?” FEATURED PRODUCT
🔥 WTF is Enough? Kit
$125– A Compass of What Matters
A wicked smart starter kit for when you’re done with the noise and ready to come home to your own “enough.”
✨ Quick, curious practices
✨ Real-world tools, zero fluff
✨ Beautifully packaged and made with love
✨ Designed for gentle disruption — at your own pace
Why I Made the WTF is Enough? Kit
Ever asked yourself, “Why does this hit me so hard?”
This kit isn’t just a bundle — it’s a reclaiming.
A remembering. A tiny nudge that you’re already whole, even when the world says otherwise.
Watch below for the origin story and heart behind it.
Get Practice Prompts & Playful Reminders
We send useful prompts, updates, and early access invites - only the good stuff.
💌 Just your email — that’s enough to begin. You’ll get love notes, real tools, and none of the fluff.
Because enough isn’t something you earn — it’s something you remember.
Change the station. Take the wheel. Come alive.
❤️ Diane
🏺 Two-Cent Wisdom Vault
Collected from the field. Shared from the heart.
Six doors. Six invitations.
Each one sparked by a real WTF I’ve lived through—not a lesson I read in a book.
Click what calls you.
Take what stirs you. Leave what doesn’t.
🪙 Crack the vault.
If you’ve ever asked, “What the hell am I supposed to do with my pain, confusion, or big, wild feelings?” — you’re in the right spot.
This short convo with Ricky started with a simple question:
What exactly are the essential tools for getting through hard times?
My answer?
Not 30 tools (that’s chaos).
Not 3 (that’s pre-school).
But 10 basic quivers (containers for big life themes)— honest, human tools (arrows) I’ve tested in the wild.
These aren’t hacks or mantras.
They’re ways to self-rescue.
To come back to yourself.
To not blow up your life (unless you want to).
Welcome to the emotional quiver. Each quiver holds three arrows (practice tools) - there when you need them.
You’re not lost. You’re just well-armed now.