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Jan 3·edited Jan 3Liked by Maris

How are you seeking to re-develop a fully feeling relationship with the earth this year? The earth is the one that creates safety for our big feelings, for our thawing, for our face-to-face confrontation with reality. The earth is the one here to witness, hold, teach, and guide us.

The Earth has always been a sense of secure attachment. Where I can rest my back against the tree and know that I am held. So, I let Earth hold me. And yet, I ask myself, how can i give back to the Earth this year and what is Earth asking of me to move towards? I know I can trust Earth but can I also trust myself to give in a way that Earth has given me...I think yes, and I know I am guided towards that yes.

In what little or big ways are you planning or hoping to rebel against the empire’s imperative of numbness? Where can you build in safe spaces to fully feel, fully express, fully embody, or fully enter trance states?

To live in full expression through sitting in stillness, through movement, vocalization and relationship. To live while holding the numbness, too, with compassion.

In what ways are you planning or hoping to rebel against the empire’s cultivation of superficial, disconnected relationships?

By asking hard questions of myself and by being true to the parts of me that want to linger in the forest a little longer, sit in stillness a little longer and then let all parts of me show up in spaces while holding space for fear.

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