Field Note 01: Opening the Notebook

Field NotesThe ParadigmThe Institute
Written By Ashley Sarah

Field Notes is where bramble & bone thinks out loud. This is not a manifesto. It’s a record of the questions, sketches, and nervous-system observations shaping the paradigm as it emerges.

From the desk of the founder:

Field notes is where bramble & bone begins to speak in real time.
A place to track the quiet data that never makes it into policy papers or clinical charts - the moments when human systems remember how to regulate, relate, and repair.


Over time, these entries will take the shape of a living study: part healer’s journal, part cartographer’s sketchbook. Some will read like research. Some will sound like prayer. All of them will trace the same question - what does coherence look like in motion?


For now, this is where the work exhales. The formal frameworks live elsewhere. Here, we listen for what is trying to grow through the cracks.

Ashley Sarah

Ashley is a graduate of Penn with degrees in gender studies and a BSN in nursing. She was a med-surge RN in two of the nation’s top 10 pediatric hospitals. Ashley left nursing for debilitating medical issues: hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and atlanto-axial instability, . At this time, she was also raising two children diagnosed with the syndrome, requiring full-time management and care. Ashley worked around her family for years: sales, entrepreneurship, community volunteering, database management, blogging, freelance writing, consulting, and EIC of a local magazine. She has found her calling combining her love of homesteading and regenerative soil/rewilding practices with her discoveries about the need to recenter the nervous-system and rewild humanity.

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