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Gaia was free and untouched.

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A poem written by Layla Robinson.

Once upon a time Gaia was free her soul danced and flowed in nature. Untouched and Un-poisoned. She healed earth with her eco systems.

She directed her elemental workers perfectly, She birthed amazing creatures and plants. She could move mountains and free water, Her spirit was untamed. Her knowledge was beyond what we know.

She stored energy and memory. She was in charge of evolution and directed all creatures big and small, she helped them adapt and change to her environment.

She made the human, humans disregarded all she had taught them. They banished her teachings and abused her spirit, She is broken.

She will only speak with the ones who understand, the ones who listen and still open their ears to her teachings. 

She whispers until the human does not walk my soils that feed them I will be broken.

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The soil is the whole of earth it is one and she is Gaia, we have covered our ears and poisoned our truth I don’t know if we will ever hear Gaia again.

I come from Generation’s of Shepard’s in the Cyprus mountains, generation’s of country folk of West Virginia usa.

They knew Gaia her curves and mountains, when to grow and when to harvest. They hunted and gathered. My Nene harvested salt from the ocean and climbed olive tree’s.

She went to work with her father who was a shepard to his goats. She knew the land just as we’re supposed to. Gaia helped the goats and the goats helped my family survive.

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West Virginia I imagine forest and mountains, Land luscious with animals and country roads. I have never met you West Virginia but I know you are beautiful.

I will not give up on Gaia I will do my ancestors proud, they may have been poor but they were abundant with mother earth and her spirit.

I am abundant with mother earth and all she offers I do not cut off the flow of her divine spirit it will forever flow through me and my children after me will know her name.

Layla.

Healing

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Healing

I feel the need to write and share without the fear of judgement of others. I am healing, I’m learning to regulate my emotions, recognizing past traumas, habits and limiting thoughts. I feel like I’m breaking the chain of generational traumas, poverty and pain.

My family, my parents, grandparents, ancestors they all survived a lot of things that may feel so long ago that it barley affects you. But it does trauma and beliefs can be inherited to the next generation it stays stored in your nervous system preventing the new generation from success and happiness but instead just teaches them survival flight, fight, freeze.

I’m giving myself permission to live now I don’t need to survive anymore. I honour and respect the pain I have experienced these last year’s that be loss, grief, unsafe, scared. But as a human I must move forward with my emotions. Emotions are not just in the brain but also in your body. IBS, auto immune diseases, fibromyalgia. It’s all linked you cannot lie to your nervous system.

Your over active nervous system has been in the driver’s seat maybe since the moment you were born, your instinctual reptilian brain sensed danger or chaos. Your parents couldn’t regulate their own emotion’s or you were exposed to an event no one would even think it affected you.

It’s important to move in these times of releasing old traumas let your body feel the pain don’t avoid it. Let it move through your body and leave. Emotional pain won’t kill you. But I believe stored trauma can.

I have unfortunately watched quite a few loved ones leave mine and my partners life. By that I mean passing away. Pretty much the whole of my partners family are gone. I believe that a few reasons were unresolved traumas stored in the body causing the nervous system to over load compromising the immune system.

After watching that happen within a space of 10 years I promised myself I didn’t want to carry this into the next generation. I’m cutting the chord/chain so that me and my partner can live happily even after trauma and loss.

So that when we are ready for children they won’t be born into generational traumas like ourselves.

Be brave acknowledge your pain and let go of stored trauma in your body. If you are interested look at somatic therapy.

You have made it this far in life your body and mind just needs reminding.

Take care,

Layla.

Why connecting with nature is important.

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If you are able to spare a few coins a month joining your local wildlife trust is very beneficial, I recently joined the Sussex wildlife trust and by becoming a member you are helping the charity educate the public and protect our wildlife conservation.

A lot of people live a fast paced lifestyle meaning more and more of us are spending less time out in nature, which in fact is very unnatural for us and has impacted the environment and ecosystem massively.

We all seem to be stuck in the digital world disconnecting us from the impact of what is really happening around us.

If anyone is best to explain this it would be Sir David Attenborough.

Sometimes we need reminding that we are indeed animals too, we have needs like your pet does and when those enrichments are taken away a lot of us suffer mentally. I’m not saying we are like cats or dogs but just reminding you we are not robots and living in a digital world can disconnect us from our senses.

Not only that nature needs us to help restore the damage we have caused e.g Deforestation, polluting our oceans and check out our animal endangered list it is happening in the uk and all around the world.

The house sparrow I pictured above from my garden is a species in decline. Most of the time this happens because of the effects of humans.

I have always been connected with nature it’s drummed in to me, I understand not everyone has that and it’s fine.

So I want to help those who are not connected to understand why nature is so important.

It won’t hurt I promise 🤣

Now I don’t expect everyone to be the next bear grylls but one small change can still impact your local wildlife conservation.

So I’m going to make a few articles explaining what changes we can make to help nature and how we can slow our lifestyle down.

Thank you for reading Laylasgardendiaries.