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Dear Land Loved...

This is a space for your real questions — no name needed. Each month, I’ll choose one question to respond to for the newsletter and I'll post the responses below. All submissions are anonymous and held with care.

You’re welcome to write about anything that’s on your heart — relationships, boundaries, burn out, family dynamics, health shifts, life transitions, or whatever else you’re moving through. This is a safe place to ask anything. You are very welcome here. 🖤

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A photograph of a woman dancing naked on a beach at twilight in a circle of fire

The Body Remembers What We Were Taught to Forget

A response to a woman asking how to unlearn the shame and self-doubt that live in the body, even after we understand where they came from. This piece explores inherited fear, the history of women’s persecution, the reclamation of the witch, and the slow return to our bodies, intuition, and the knowing that was never truly lost.

Vanessa

Jul 305 min read

A woman lying nude in some dead grass, holding a bouquet of dead flowers.

Moving Through Grief Gently

This response offers compassionate guidance for someone navigating deep grief, burnout, and life transition after years of caregiving and the loss of both parents. It reassures them that exhaustion and disorientation are natural responses, and encourages slowing down rather than rushing recovery or identity rebuilding. The advice centers on rest, self-nourishment, and gentle herbal and lifestyle supports, alongside honoring grief as a long, nonlinear process.

Vanessa

Apr 255 min read

The Body Remembers What We Were Taught to Forget

Moving Through Grief Gently

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