Find Your Belonging

Most of us want a sense of peace.

Most of us want to be heard and understood.

We want a sense of belonging and grounding - of locating ourselves in the land we live in.

With that, we hope for recognition - hope to love and to be loved.

Our deepest and most universal longing is that of connection.

Belonging is not a static thing - it alternates periods of restlessness alongside periods of rest.

Belonging alternates between constant movement and spaces of rest; being close and being far away; being full and being empty.

We all have a sense of wanting to belong. All of us have a desire to attach, to be witnessed, seen and heard. We can belong transitionally to landscapes, to journeys, to relationships , workplaces, dinner parties or club nights. We can belong through what we wear, how we smell, how we speak or behave. We can belong in how we spend our time and what we choose to take on in life.

We all belong to the earth - we all come from her. There has to be a daily landing in that. At times, our egos or identities or self narratives can create a conduit for dishonesty or performative belonging. That can draw us away from the very things that set us alight, that fuel and fire our hearts. Your true passions and true callings belong in the things that give you most joy, meaning and fulfillment. By listening carefully to that and honouring that - we can best place and press ourselves into the landscape, in harmony and balance.

We each have a uniqueness to bring to the world and a need to imprint and share those ingredients. At times, we can become fixed to a place, a position, a room, a routine, a way of thinking - and at times that can separate us from true belonging. Our relationships can inhibit our depth, our growth, our perception and partition our true potential from us. It is important to take notice of that which no longer serves us and find ways to move our lives forwards alongside that which truly matters moment to moment.

The spaces we share (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) can be limiting - they can create a sense of expectation, dogma or pressure. And at times they can contain our expanse or divert our direction.

True belonging invites you to belong to yourself, to belong to your body, your uniqueness and to belong to the land. And feeling wholly free in that.