Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots

In This Journey:

This is a cord cutting that centers what is native to our souls. Traveling inward, we thoughtfully recognize what has been brought into our hearts, minds, and lives and yet does not belong there. We begin to take note of what - like plants in our outer worlds - has started to take over, disrupt, inflame, and damage. What has spread beyond control? What has infiltrated the soil of our lives, choking out our once healthy inner ecosystems?

Cord cutting is held here as a gardening practice rather than a severing, guided by relationship with land, body, and the wisdom of what is native.

If you can, try to spend some time in Nature before this cord cutting. Watch the way plants, animals, and elements interact with one another. Observe how the interconnectedness of Nature feels in your own body. Take note of what is native to your part of the world and what is not.

Let the wisdom of Nature saturate your inner territory long before we drop in.

CONSIDER BRINGING AN ELEMENT OF NATURE WITH YOU. A STONE, A BRANCH, A FLOWER, SEEDS - ANYTHING THAT FEELS NATIVE TO YOU.

Self Reclamation: Beyond the Wall is a good follow up to this Journey.

 

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Stephanie Greene

Stephanie is the owner of Local Collective which includes MVC. She is an author, a single mom, an Albany local, and a lifelong believer in the power of community.

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