Before anything grows, roots go down. Not to be seen, but to be stable. Sometimes our discomfort comes from trying to “rise” without rooting first. In other words, we sometimes aim to expand before we have set a wide base for ourselves to use as a platform for our potential growth. Then our "rise" feels more like a stretch beyond our capacity, rather than an easeful expansion of what is already underneath us, or central to our core. A tree puts forth a branching system that c