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Keisha Nicole Newcomb's avatar

This article inspired me to find my “own pond” this week and I did! Thank you for sharing!

Monica Fernandes's avatar

Awww, Keisha, that makes me so happy.

Marion Gibbon's avatar

I love what you have written here it makes an awful lot of sense. I walk in nature everyday and talk to my non -human friends it gives me peace

Monica Fernandes's avatar

Hi Marion! Thank you so much! Those little habits, though simple, are so helpful. 🙏🏼💖

Monica A Leyva's avatar

M2, This felt deeply restorative. The way you frame healing as stabilization before transformation carries emotional intelligence. The pond becomes more than a setting here. It becomes a witness, an anchor point, almost a nervous-system memory.

“The Earth does not ask you to be healed before she holds you” is one of those lines that settles directly into the body.

Beautifully written and deeply compassionate. But of course, I am not surprised.

With love, your squared.

Monica Fernandes's avatar

Awww, thank you. The Earth is powerful and we sometimes forget that she can be an anchor. Thank you for your emotionally wise and intelligent comment. As always, M2. 🙏🏼