Things grow well when loved, including you.
If seeds aren’t watered, if soil and matter isn’t tended to, if things aren’t allowed to shift, winter and decay, it is hard for them to grow and to heal. Im not talking about gardening or literal seeds, I’m talking about you, about your dreams, your body and your wounds.
Tending to yourself as though you are a garden, as though you are the wild nature being you are, can help you to grow well.
Nature is a wonderful guide in how to tend to our lives, showing us the processes needed to grow and heal.
When I look out into wild nature, mistreatment of self or self loathing is not it seems, an innate thing.
But more the thing that grows inside a creature, a human being who is tamed, traumatised, caged or led away from their integrity.
Self hate, can be a completely natural response to what a person has experienced or been told to believe, but it isn’t what’s innate within our wild make up.
Under the concrete and the taming, is a natural desire to thrive and live well.
Your life, your body is deserving of your love.
Your inner innate wild being knows this, wants this, and there is a well of life, of care, of medicine and wildness within you, for you. And although it’s always, I believe, trying to guide, care and tend to you, it is louder, more alive inside when we are listening, and respecting our own truth and voice rather than shutting it down.
The stories we learn and the experiences we have, can teach us to dampen our compass and our integrity, and so not listen to the care we have within. It can lead us to think we can only find the love we need outside of ourselves.
When a dandelion grows, their beautiful tap root, so like a witches finger, aerates the soil, makes drainage possible, shifts compaction and stagnation, reaching deep down below the taming and the trauma, finding what’s innate, mineral rich and wild, bringing it up to the surface layer of soil.
In doing so a dandelion creates a space where other less hardy flowers can grow, where more life can thrive.
This beautiful plant, also does the same to the human body.
It goes into the body and shifts stagnancy, opens places where we have become stuck, they work on the liver and gut helping them to release toxins and built up waste, they get the gut to make use of the minerals held in the food, and they cleanse, remineralise, and awaken the body. Helping people to access the life force, innate wildness and beautiful medicine that was always there below the slurry and the stuckness.
Plants are amazing at this, they don’t put something into you that wasn’t there before, they come into your body as an ally, and show your body what you already have within; the power and the medicine of you. They remind you of what you are capable of but somehow lost somewhere along the way.
Many of us are more supported than we know, more medicine rich, more loved and more gifted than we realise.
No one can take away this wild well of self love and care, it is part of us, but we can be moved away from it, we can cover it, forget it, hide it.
Remembering to tend to ourselves, learning to trust and love who we are again, to treat ourselves as a wild medicine garden or a forest who is able to grow, transform and alchemise when treated well can enable us to feel safe in our own company again, and in that we, we can hear more clearly our body and our heart.
Perhaps it’s remembering that our bodies can be our safe havens, a place of belonging when we work at treating ourselves well.
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POEM :
Pieces of you
Breaking off
Pieces of yourself
To fit into places
Will not help you belong
It will only make you bleed
- Nikita Gill
Sending much love and wild wonderment to your entire being
Brigit xxxx
I just love our words, your work and your good heart, Brigit. I will upgrade soon as I can! Probably my one and only one! Thank you. Diana
Every piece of this - waters the rich soils of my being - line after line a voiced remembrance of why I am healing - as to how and who -
Bless you