The living center of Wayward Haven Farm
Our life is the soil in which we grow.
To live well, we need an inner and outer ecology that supports us — the conditions for that ecology exist within us all, whether we feel them or not. They’ve been there all along, sometimes just buried beneath layers of teaching and guidance that was meant well but rooted in fear.
Whatever the state of our life, it is the soil in which we grow and its condition dictates our experience. The conditions that we evolved for- and that still live within us – allow the soil of our life to hold what matters.
We start with a simple premise: We are not flaws to be fixed.
We inherit our conditions from the people who came before us — those who raised us, taught us, shaped us, and sent us into the world. Their pressures became our pressures. Their rhythms became our rhythms. Their wounds became our soil.
Now, we tend the conditions ourselves.
Just as the health of plants and trees comes from the soil they are rooted in and the environment they’re exposed to — the ecology they live in — our own lived coherence grows from the ecology of our life. The state of our lived experience is the direct result of our inner and outer conditions.
We aren’t flawed, but we are responsible for the state of our lives – if we choose it.
At Wayward Haven Farm, we’ve chosen to work on ourselves, to uncover the inner and outer conditions for living well, and to tend them with the same care we give to the place where we live.