And also, we are not our wounds (changing the story)
In my last post, I shared about a revelatory traumatic experience that ultimately set in motion a very significant pattern interrupt in my life.
It brought me here to a remote corner of the Mojave high desert, where I’ve been living, listening, learning and unlearning for close to ten years.
Supported by this wilderness, I’ve been tending to wounds from the dominant culture, from generations and ancestry. After a couple of journeys into the underworld to retrieve + restore parts of my soul, the embodied knowing that I am not these wounds took seed in my nervous system one spring.
I can tend to them, be the space for them to heal, transmute and transform in their own time, as one would tend to soil and earth that has been degraded and exploited by aggressive monocropping and industrial farming.
When previously degraded soil is tended to skillfully, given the space and time to heal, it naturally regenerates. The soil’s native microbiome begins to proliferate, pollinators abound. Healthy new growth organically happens.
Cornflower by Em Niwa
So too with our souls and bodies.
The legacy of trauma that this dying (mono)culture would have us believe is all that we are is not at all what we are. Nature knows that she is not the wounds that we inflict upon her. She is the medicine in which they are given the space and time to resolve back into the wholeness of her.
And we are inseparable from Nature. Tending our soul’s soil organically, inevitably makes way for new growth; for new, authentic stories to emerge.
This summer in Root + Rise, we’ll be skillfully, compassionately tending our soil so that new, soul-aligned stories can appear. Guided by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we’ll be discerning which narratives are no longer beneficial to our soul-bodies and composting them.
We’ll be collaborating with Nature- within and without - to become the dynamic space of transformation. Doing this work in community has deep potency.
Summer enrollment closes at midnight PST on 30 June.