11/13/2025
Even the strongest trees have hollows.
Not from weakness - but from adaptation.
When a tree is wounded - by storm, fungi, or time - it begins a slow process of adaptive repair.
The living tissue seals off what was harmed and grows new rings around it.
Layer by layer, the tree reshapes itself - hollow in places, yet strong enough to hold birds, rain, land life within.
Our bodies know this language. ❤️🩹
When life overwhelms us, the nervous system protects - drawing in, bracing, tightening to keep us safe.
In time, with safety and attunement, those same systems remember how to soften.
New neural pathways form, fascia unwinds, breath returns.
Healing becomes less about fixing and more about growing around what once felt uninhabitable.
And like trees, we don’t heal alone.
Roots intertwine, steadying one another beneath the surface — reminding us that connection is part of repair.
The hollow isn’t what’s missing - it’s where integration happens.
Where old tissue meets new growth, where memory and resilience coexist, where life keeps finding its way through.
