30/04/2026
This morning, while walking Tigger - my beautiful shadow dog, I found myself thinking…
Trees are like people.
The only difference is that trees seem to be stuck in one place.
But then I wondered…
aren’t we, too?
So many of us remain rooted in the same old habits, patterns, beliefs, ways of relating, communicating, loving, protecting ourselves, and seeing life.
When I walk through the forest, I notice how the trees often look like they belong together. Similar shapes, similar rhythm, sharing the same ground. Like people in a community, held by common values, stories, interests, or ways of seeing the world.
And then I notice the others.
The old trees.
The broken trees.
The twin trees growing from the same root.
The trees leaning on other trees.
The ones that have fallen, resting on another for support.
And I see humanity there.
I see how we sometimes lean too heavily on someone else.
A parent.
A partner.
A child.
A system.
A story.
Trees become a mirror.
And when I walk through town, I see another kind of forest. A wider variety. Different colours, shapes, heights, expressions. Like people in the world — so different from one another, sometimes with nothing obvious in common.
And yet… underneath it all, we are the same.
A tree has roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, sometimes fruit.
A human has a body, a heart, a history, a longing, a wound, a soul.
We may look different.
We may grow differently.
We may bloom in different seasons.
But we all come from somewhere.
And if we want to understand who we are now, we often need to look at our roots.
Our roots are the past.
Our roots are the anchor.
They carry the land we came from, the family we belonged to, the education we received, the stories we inherited, the ancestors who came before us, and the history that shaped us.
When we begin to understand our roots, we begin to understand why we grew the way we did.
And maybe, from that place, we can choose how we want to grow next.
Because healing is not about rejecting our roots.
It is about understanding them, honouring them, and allowing ourselves to grow in a new direction. 🌳
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