The heart widens

My time in Kalaallit Nunaat (The land of the humans/Our land) brought such lightness, softness, and a sense of coming home for both me and my girls. Returning to the land that holds our roots can bring a deep level of healing and integration, and it is wonderful to know you feel the shift.

Roots doesn’t have to do with birthplaces, because we are many with a mixed culture and several countries in us…roots is where you feel at home, its about energy, and restoring your identity (not roles, expectations or performance) but more about becoming you, its about feeling connected with your soul and about alignment…

Its also a matter of feeling safe in your root environment, (and still so much can happen around you in the environment), but you feel safe, your nervous system are being regulated, for me it feels like im in my ancestral land and it feels so sacred for me, very emotional, I always feel my connection very deeply – in periods when I have lived outside, I haven’t traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat, because I felt if I returned I had to give up my dailylife…so in a way I have been avoiding my longing, or compromised for different reasons…

Every time I sense my inner mode shift to restoration mode, the light, the smells, the humidity, the landscape, the humans, the humour, the dialect, everything matters and help the stress hormones to drop. The feeling of connectedness to nature, family stories, lineage, Im a dot in a long lineage thread, stories told again and again…

Its also interesting how it awakens different feelings, im always crying when I travel back, tearing up easily, having overwhelming feelings of both sadness and joy, letting me know what I have missed, who I am (but in a way not able to fully express in the place I came from), the passing time.

This time I haven’t been home in my roots for nearly 6 years. Alongside the feelings of grief there is a strong feeling of gratitude, expansion of my heart, a feeling of quietness, balance and neutrality. I talked with a local, which also move back and forward between countries, and we talked about it and said : They are now in their Nuuk fase (capitol of Kalaallit Nunaat), it comes in waves what we need.

Connecting to our roots strengthen our authority, because we feel more clear about who we are and external noise loses it power, simpler choices, we act from core, not comparison.

Besides the emotional part there is another part, coming back to your spiritual frequency, you remember the energy and yourself, there is less fragmentation in you…

What parts of me softens or comes alive when I return to my roots – and how can I let that version of myself guide my life right now?

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