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A word i never knew i needed

5/14/2021

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Has a word ever punched you in the soul? 

That’s truly the only way to describe what happened when a friend said this word: Hiraeth.


It wasn’t the word itself, but when they defined it, it was as if I'd always known what it meant but forgot. 

 Hiraeth is a Cymraeg (Welsh) word that, like so many words, doesn’t directly translate into English. 

 My friend described it as a longing for a home your soul has never known. 
 
And according to Samantha Kielar of Penn State University, it translates to something like...
“a homesickness or yearning for a home that you cannot return to, no longer exists, or maybe never was.”

 This is both heartbreaking and affirming, because I know this ache. Do you?

The desire, almost desperation, to belong somewhere so deeply that the place loves me just as much as I love it. For the soul of a place and mine to be one. 

I wonder if this word only came about after humans wandered far from the place where their ancestors' bones are buried and their souls began to feel the pain of separation from their ancestral home..

 It also made me wonder is this the most prevalent malady in our modern culture? 

 Are most people just walking around with their souls in pain because they’ve lost a home they never knew? 

 And what if the only way we can satiate this hunger for belonging is to grow roots where we are right now? 

This word Hiraeth tugged at what I've been working so hard to do for the past 20 years. To grow roots so deeply into the Earth that the connection is intimate, undeniably sacred, and dare I say, mutual. 

This word is why I designed a new course, Sacred Nature, to guide people to reconnect their soul with the soul of the world, to move towards peace and spiritual connection with their place to quell the pangs of homesickness.

Check my programs section for upcoming registration details. 
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    I'm a nature-based mentor and coach helping sensitive, empathic souls out of anxiety and overwhelm and into a healing relationship with nature.

    ​When we root in a meaningful relationship with the Earth, we find a sense of belonging more beautiful than we ever imagined.  

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I acknowledge that I'm living and working on stolen land. The original peoples of what's now called New York, as well as the rest of this continent, were wrongfully & forcibly removed from their lands, suffered death, physical, and emotional trauma, and their culture intentionally fractured. I understand that Native Americans are still here; strong and thriving. I offer my condolences those the past, present, and future indigenous peoples who experienced harm, at the hands of colonizers, the colonial system, and systemic racism. I promise to do my best to be an ally, abolitionist, and accomplice. To support reparations and healing, in not just words, but in action. I understand that this statement is imperfect and only the first step. 
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