Rooted: A Journaling Space For Growth + Reflection

When we dig our hands into soil, nurture a growing and living thing, and wrap ourselves in nature’s beauty and bounty, our energetic centers benefit. There’s an undeniable connection and slow, intentional healing that occurs.

Our connection with plants is primal, from the air we breathe to the herbs and vegetables we use to nourish our bodies. It’s that feeling that I get from tuning into trees, plants and rivers — that feeling that lights up my cells, regulates my nervous system and allows me to return to simplicity — that spurred me to create this journal.

Rooted: A Journaling Space for Growth + Reflection is all about our connection to earth energy and working with plants to heal and thrive. Mindful prompts guide users through gratitude practices, connecting with nature and opening our hearts through natural expression.

This journal is a space for people who crave mini pauses and inward light shining. It’s a book that fits in your daypack. It’s something I imagine gifting a close friend on her birthday. The book presents simple guidelines for joyful living — for you and your green, leafy friends. Intentional journaling spaces offer prompts for growth and reflection while corresponding spreads speak to living in harmony as a particular plant would. Like the calathea prayer plant closing its leaves at night, give yourself grace. When your leaves look dull and your stems are slouching, take the time to welcome the moonlight. Rest and recharge.

My hope is that this journal deepens our connection with nature and ourselves. That it brings humans some much-needed slowdown and reflective time, helping readers to tap into the mental benefits of nurturing a consistent journaling practice. My hope is that readers are switched on to remembering how nature knows what to do without rush and frenzy. And to realize just how energetically linked we are to Pachamama, our relationship with Mother Earth.

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Originally published in the Fall 2024 issue of Spoke+Blossom.