Just back from Mt. Shasta and beginning a new decade on planet Earth, I’m asking: What am I no longer willing to carry—and what might the Earth teach me about letting go?

Through healing work and deep prayer, I’ve begun releasing deep-seated self-loathing. Inside the Mother Tree Community, we’re practicing self-compassion, making room for grief, and allowing ourselves to be held through this season of release.

With that experience fresh in my heart, I’m returning to my conversation with author and sacred activist Cynthia Jurs, author of Summoned by the Earth. Cynthia’s spiritual journey led her from studying with Eastern gurus to accepting Gaia as her teacher.

Cynthia shares how listening to the Earth inspired a global practice of burying Earth Treasure Vases filled with prayers and offerings for healing and protection. We explore sacred activism rooted in deep listening and love, wisdom she received from Indigenous elders, and a near-death experience in Nepal that deepened her relationship with Gaia.

As you listen, take a breath. Feel the Earth beneath you. What is ready to fall away in your own life?

To listen more deeply, take my 5th Season Check-In—a chance to pause, breathe, and notice:

What your body already knows about what’s draining you,
What you’re ready to release,
What your next chapter may be asking of you.

https://www.dramandakemp.com/5-signs-you-need-the-fifth-season-checkin

For more information on Cynthia and her book Summoned by the Earth go to: https://gaiamandala.net/

In the Mother Tree Community we are giving ourselves safe space to feel and accept grief.

Fall-Winter is the earth's time to grieve, to let go of ancestral pain. Join us!

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What if you could hit the pause button and just rest?

Have you ever been so bone-tired that you desperately wanted to stop—but somehow felt like you couldn't?

You have too much to do. Too many people depending on you. Too many things to figure out. And even though you know you need a pause, you don't know how to give yourself one.

That's where I am right now.

In a couple of weeks, I'm heading back to Mt. Shasta, California—and kicking off a three-week sabbatical during my birthday month.

Three years ago, I went to Mt. Shasta thinking I was going on a spiritual adventure. Instead, I got cracked open.

What happened there became an initiation into a new way of knowing myself—one that asked me to release an identity, listen to my body, trust my voice, and reclaim parts of myself I'd been holding back.

Now I'm returning to the mountain with a very different question:

What becomes possible when we stop pushing long enough to listen?

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• what happened when I stopped resisting and trusted my body's signals
• how I discovered the power of my voice inside a dark pyramid
• what it meant to be fully seen in a room of strangers
• why an experience that initially felt strange became an experience of liberation
• what Mt. Shasta taught me about releasing an old identity

Next Step:

Do the Fifth Season Check-In:
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If you're exhausted from carrying everything and sensing that your old way of living isn't sustainable anymore, take the free Fifth Season Check-In.

It will help you identify the signs that it's time to stop pushing and start listening to what your body already knows.

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On this episode of the Mother Tree podcast host Aminata shares about what is the fifth season of late summer.

Aminata also invites the audience to listen to a series of prompts that will help them to determine if they need to embrace the wisdom of the fifth season in their lives right now.

Click on the link below if you'd like to download the fifth season check-in it's a three minute process that will help you to identify the season of life that you're in.

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