There is such freedom, belonging, and joy in living, when we truly feel part of the Flow of Life. The sense of isolation, loneliness, struggle to belong and find purpose, melt out of us. When we are truly in our place in the Flow of Life we can see clearly for the first time. We value our strengths, feel deeply that we belong. We see our purpose in an entirely new light and how to help turn humanity to a new (combined with very old) living with Gaia. We see more clearly what is needed, and what we can do to help to revitalize the Earth and transform human cultures into ones that respecting, nurturing, and reveling in Life of all, other-than-human beings - plants, animals, spirits and energies.

The path to this freedom and belonging is to do our work to heal from trauma and negative beliefs and painful experiences that kept us stuck and that we have locked away. Until we address them, they keep us separated from life, alone and a bit frantic. We need to become aware of and work to change the unconscious assumptions of our families and cultures that have been dominating, objectifying, using and destroying, fearing anything different, and trying to fill the emptiness that has led to grasping. Freeing ourselves from painful experiences and beliefs, as well as from damaging cultural assumptions and patterns that were designed to benefit a few over all others, lets us have more vivid, enriching, joyful and productive lives. There are 8.1 billion humans now. If every one of us does something, however small and locally focussed, we CAN turn this around and usher in a new age of life on Earth.

We need to heal ourselves so that we can then do the work to save Life, save the world, save other-than-humans who were here before us. It is not just healing ourselves that will heal the world. We heal ourselves to frees do the work necessary to undo the damage that humans have caused.

Indigenous cultures know how to live joyfully and to take care of the Earth and all Life by listening to what Nature needs and then caring for their family of plants, animals, minerals, structures, and processes, which in turn supports all the systems around it.

We must see Nature, and anything and anyone different from us, as intelligent, deserving of respect, and deeply knowledgeable in ways that we do not fully understand. Doing our work to heal ourselves is the first, vital phase in rebuilding the possibility of continued life on Earth with clear sight that supports Life, Joy, and Peace.