'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.)
Hope it offers a healing - Sez
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That desert 
you are facing 
right now 
is not validating 
how alone 
you are,
nor how ‘wrong'
the path you 
have chosen is...
It is a vital
landscape that one 
meets upon the path
into the unknown 
and its wilderness.


And rather
than feeding
yourself on 
the sparse 
offerings of 
this place - 

allow your roots to 
nourish
and hold
you for a while.

For, as dry and shallow
as this desert
may be,so too
is the well within you 
deep and full.

Dear one,

Some plants have developed a surefire way to survive uncertainty by sending roots deep below the surface. These are taproots. It is the first root to appear from the seed and remains the largest, central root of the plant. Desert plants can send roots down more than 75 feet.

This taproot absorbs water and minerals from the earth and serves as a food storage and a reserve. This ability to not rely on the surface makes these plants more self-sufficient and resilient during hard winters and severe drought.

So too have you been gifted a taproot that reaches deep below this surfacery world. It was the first seed of self-sufficiency planted within you that empowers you to survive times that leave you feeling alone, uncertain and vulnerable.

Follow what makes you feel most nourished, most embodied, most connected, and you will be following your taproot inward.

And do not fear the surface life for it does not determine how well you bloom, only your roots have the power to do that.
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Feel free to share these words if you believe they could be of guidance to another soul.

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