In this episode, Kelsey and Chetna talk about:
- What “decolonizing” means to Kelsey
- Holding the both/and of being a settler and belonging on a particular land
- Cultivating belonging within oneself and with the larger earth community
- Honoring the truth of interdependence as a way to fostering belonging
- Practices of connecting with the earth and “offering breath” and care
- Kelsey’s tree friends and how she never feels lonely
- The loss that comes with birthing our publishing a creative project like a book
- Allowing our art to be for us first, savoring the process as a way to take the outcome off a pedestal
- Sharing art as a love language, as a way to give gift, and letting those who want it to receive it (and those who don’t to not)
- Cycles of nature and creativity in the excitement of inception, the pain of the fallow period, and the stretching of sharing
- Self-compassion in the writing process, and other practices that worked for Kelsey to show up day after day in her writing
- Encouragement to write a book if you have the longing to write a book
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