We ground ourselves in the wisdom of ecosystems and community care. Using pod mapping and the metaphor of the mycelium network, we identify the people and relationships that support our healing.
Writing Prompt: Write a survivor love letter to someone in your support network who helped you grow—someone you may never have thanked.

Reflect on the people in your life who have offered support, encouragement, and understanding. These may be friends, family members, teachers, or even ancestors or fictional characters who inspire you.

On a piece of paper or in a journal, create your Mycelium Council, your list of support:

• Write the names of individuals who you trust and rely on. 

• Identify individuals who could potentially join your support team with more trust-building or open conversations. 

• Write the names of networks or groups that could serve as resources for you. 

• Write the names of ancestors, historical figures or even fictional characters that are a source of strength for you.

You are beloved and beautiful.

Maybe you can’t believe that,

But I will hold it here until you can.

Somebody did that for me. 

-Jeff Chu #SurvivorLoveLetter

Writing Prompt: Write a survivor love letter to an ancestor—real, chosen, or imagined—who reminds you that you are not alone.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things. #SurvivorLoveLetter

• What did you learn about yourself, your inner child, your emotional world?
  
  

• Has your perception of the event shifted? Of the people involved?
  
  

• Are there emotional or practical needs you recognize now — from others, or from yourself?
  
  

• What pearls of wisdom did you uncover?

Finally, consider:
How can you integrate this experience into your life?
Into your relationship with others?
Into your relationship with yourself?