🍄 Oh, Mycelium! 🍄
One of the easiest ways for me to ground is to immerse myself in nature. 🌿
It doesn’t always take much time or effort, but sometimes it takes a grand gesture to get my attention and remind me how powerful a simple observation can be.
As summer was coming to an end, I found myself searching for something to hold me steady. Something to root me to the ground as my body began to recognize the shift in seasons, weather, and responsibilities. 🍂
Nature is often where I go to reconnect, but this time it came through an unexpected invitation from my husband to take a trail walk at one of my favorite parks.
🌲 Seven Mile is named for its seven miles of winding trails. Surrounded by forest and naturally fed streams, it’s the perfect place to just be.
If I’m being honest, though, I didn’t want to go.
My body is still healing, and the thought of walking long trails sent a wave of exhaustion through me that would normally have resulted in an immediate no.
But I remembered what nature does for my body.
So despite the exhaustion, I said yes. 💚
I stepped slowly from the car as we reached the trailhead. I took a deep breath. Then another.
As my body began to relax, I heard a quiet message rise within me:
✨ “You needed this.”
And then the show began.
🍄 Mushrooms.
Everywhere.
Dozens of varieties were fruiting throughout the forest. Tiny clusters. Towering caps. Unexpected colors. Hidden treasures emerging from fallen logs and damp soil.
Suddenly, there it was.
The magic of nature.
Mycelium is largely made up of what we cannot see.
It lives beneath the surface, weaving vast networks underground. The mushrooms we notice are only the fruiting bodies, the visible expression of something much larger at work below.
In Minnesota, many mushrooms are poisonous, and only some varieties are edible. But that day, I wasn’t there to forage.
I was there to observe. 👀
The sight of those mushrooms seemed to bring the entire forest to life.
I imagined the vast network of mycelium stretching beneath the forest floor and how every mushroom I encountered was connected to something greater than itself.
📸 I stopped often, capturing photos of every variety I could find.
With each one, I felt more present.
More grateful.
🙏 Grateful that my husband had gotten me out of the house.
🙏 Grateful that I had listened to the quiet nudge to say yes.
🙏 Grateful to be exactly where I needed to be.
And then the lesson arrived.
🌱 Grounding is reconnecting to the network that has always existed beneath the surface.
Like mycelium beneath a forest floor, our memories, experiences, intuition, and relationships form an invisible web that continues to support us even when we lose sight of it.
In that moment, I realized I wasn’t finding something new.
💫 I was simply remembering what had been with me all along.
Most roots grow downward.
Mycelium grows outward.
🍄 It connects. 🍄 It communicates. 🍄 It supports life beneath the surface.
Grounding is remembering what you’re connected to.
✨ Just Be: The Archetypes ✨ Volume I: The Mother ✨ Chapter One: Be Grounded
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