Our deepest wounds are healed in relationship. With our inner and outer landscapes, with one another, with our higher power, and with the living world. These wounds did not arise in isolation. They formed through ruptures in connection: through distorted images of God shaped by religious abuse, insecure attachment with our primary caregivers, inherited ancestral patterns of disconnection, the loss of communal interdependence, and collective or cultural trauma.

Nothing truly exists in isolation. Our primary experience of life is founded on relationship, connection. As we first come into existence through the full merging of man and woman, the foundation of our life forming in the safe space of the womb, being deeply woven into the warm sanctuary of relationship with Mother given life from Father. The laws of relation do not end at the formation of our life, but stay with us in all areas of our journey. Our individual journey is interwoven with the well-being of all life.

Even at the most microscopic level, our very bodies are a living ecosystem. As Dr. Josh Axe emphasizes, on a cellular level, we are composed of more microbial cells than human ones, an intricate web of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes that forms the foundation of our health, immunity, and vitality.

We can observe the shared root of sickness / dis-ease in the world to stem from disconnection, from being disconnected from some kind of inner or outer relational integrity or wholeness..

Whether it’s disconnection from the pure natural foods in the ways we evolved to eat, organic nutrients, pure clean air and water, heart intimacy with others, genuine sense of community, behaviors rooted in care, ancestral traditions, body awareness, nature.. the list goes on.

A wise woman had once said “The Cure is in the Cause”

So when we open our hearts, bodies and minds to the flowing elements of life, in an atmosphere where sensitivity is honored.. we allow the places where we are most vulnerable, where we have been most wounded, where we have needed the most nurturing and protection, so have kept safe hidden away … we allow these places to come into greater connection where life energy can move through, and for these places in ourselves to find safety to exist and natural integration with the living flow of natural expression that makes up the experience of being.

There are seasons where eventually each soul is invited to let the armor around our tenderness, softness and deep aliveness be met by the grace and presence felt through union with the living landscape we belong to..

This living landscape we are innately a part of, changes constantly..

Through seasons, through storms, through natural disasters..

that all remind us of life’s impermanence ༄.°

But even as the landscapes shift, the expressions of the elements reflect eternal, unchanging qualities we can always find refuge in this shared spirit.

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They remind us that though everything in this world is temporary, there is something everlasting that flows through it all.

Everything we can hold has ultimately come from nature and reflects the quality of life expressing through it.

Much of our collective trauma has left us more vulnerable to being influenced by belief systems that work to divorce us of our innate and intimate connection with nature and the living systems that sustain life. For me, the most healing, reparative experiences on this long journey of recovering from systems of dysfunction, has come through this reconnection.

I have been on a healing journey, a mystic path, for a little over ten years.. ever since I was a teenager and my emotional pain from living in dysfunctional systems – became too loud to ignore. I had already experienced levels of hardship that many more privileged people don’t face until much later in life. But I trust that Creator allowed these losses, violations, and abandonments because the resilience of my true heart could handle them. Those early hardships set the tone for my adulthood and positioned my heart to seek truth sincerely, to pursue genuine healing, and to find the wisdom that could turn pain into purpose.

In my desperation to heal, I began listening to Spirit and following intuition. At first, I didn’t always know how to discern which voices were truly from the Divine, so I was led down some detours that taught me discernment.. they refined and purified my inner guidance system. Looking back, I can see how the true voice of Creator was always guiding me and there with me, even through the lessons of misdirection.

And I can see clearly now that whenever I was led into deeper communion with nature, embodied connection with my body, heartfelt community, or Spirit-centered, life-giving ways of living.. that was always the voice of Divine Truth.

Even the more challenging experiences of community, where sickness and distortion were present, where trauma was created or perpetuated in the name of God, healing, or spirituality.. these served as teachers. They sharpened my discernment. They helped me learn to recognize what is truly life-giving, and what is false light.

Through these experiences, my capacity to sense healthy, safe communal environments has deepened. My ability to recognize spaces that are genuinely supportive of holding the process of mending relational trauma has strengthened. And despite the collective wounding that exists even within spaces that claim to hold love, truth, or healing, one foundational truth remains: wounds formed in relationship are healed through relationship, not in isolation.

Corrective experiences in community are essential to this repair. And from what I have witnessed, both in my own journey and through the stories of elders in my recovery community, most people must come to discernment of true character through lived experience.

To love, to belong, to cultivate relationship is always a risk.
A risk of heartbreak.
A risk of disappointment.

And still.. it is the path through which foundational healing unfolds.

There is great beauty in seasons of solitude, for walking the hermit’s path.. and I’ve experienced meaningful inner healing in those seasons too. But what I see as a deep collective need right now is to ultimately welcome a life that embraces interdependency rooted in authentic heart connection, natural law, and devotion to higher wisdom. This kind of communion.. with nature and with each other.. is a great medicine for humanity at this time.

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This piece speaks from lived experience and spiritual conviction. It is not intended to shame, invalidate, or polarize, but to invite deeper discernment around what truly sustains life. I trust readers to take what resonates and leave the rest.

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