Growing FWD: by Kara Ladd

Growing FWD: by Kara Ladd

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Growing FWD: by Kara Ladd
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EARTH WISDOM & ALL-NATURAL AWAKENINGS

EARTH WISDOM & ALL-NATURAL AWAKENINGS

Plant medicine and microdosing, oh my! Have you even tried a present walk outside?

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May 01, 2023
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I had a pretty wild energetic uplevel recently — and no, it wasn’t in a plant medicine ceremony in Peru or transcendent healing session, but with my two feet firmly planted on the ground.

There are two of these “upgrades” that I can distinctively recall in my life. The first was after healing from a one-in-a-million cancer, where I was seemingly slammed back into my body for full-on, root chakra awakening. The second was unexpectedly a few weeks ago after I returned from a writing retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Both shifts were equally energetically cleansing and creatively stimulating — unequivocally linked to reconnecting with the Earth.

Asia Suler spoke to a similar cosmic Earth connection in her book, Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World — 

“When we begin to live from our original beauty, instead of the wounds that mire us in self- doubt, we bring the undeniable power of our creativity back into alignment with the wider dream of the world.” 

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