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03/15/2004: "Reconnecting With Nature to Get Through Divorce."
I am facilitating an on-line course "Introduction to Educating and Counseling With Nature" in completing my Applied Ecopsychology Certificate and I came across this entry I had written a while back while going through the aftermath of my divorce. The instructions were to "Go to an attractive place in a natural area. Gain its consent to help you with this activity. Write down what you like and why and identify what part of yourself has that aspect." I thought I'd share so that others may allow nature to help them through tough times, too.
Here's the entry...
I did this chpater in the Creek Garden (community in Oregon) by a beautiful radiating half circle garden. It is planted with kale, which are more mature than the newly planted mixed salad greens.
I see these beds as the part of myself that I have been nurturing, hand-turning, digging up and removing every piece of invasive quack grass, thanking the organic matter that remains as it is transformed by mother earth as compost. This time of introspection throughout the winter breaking away from my former life, retilling the beds of my soul with slow, deliberate, painfully challenging heavy forkfuls one by one, lightening and crumbling as I went. The kale plants represent the parts of me that have been transplanted into this garden from the other parts of my life, the parts that have grown strong and are mature and stable enough to nurture the new parts of myself, newly planted greens, that are emerging from these perfectly, intentionally prepared beds, protected and watched over by the confident strong parts of my soul.
This brings up another enormous release for me as I remember that it is my ex-husband’s birthday. I cry and cry and eventually thank him for the kale that he has helped to plant and nourish so that it may assist my new seedlings in this new garden that is truly mine. Earth-Spirit Lynn
