You Are (Not) a Tree: Metaphors for Growing Deep Roots with Joy Clarkson

Are you struggling to know your place in the world? Longing to find some sense of belonging in your location, your community, or within yourself?

Join Mary and Joy Clarkson, author and podcaster, as they dive into the necessity of being rooted: emotionally, spiritually, and physically, and the wisdom we can find hidden in the natural world around us.  

Tune in to hear, 

• Ways to feel more meaning in life with this simple tool 
• What trees can teach us about what we need to survive
• A new point of view to help find purpose right now

If you find yourself envisioning the life you desire as being somewhere “out there”-  this episode is your way forward to finding true freedom in the life you are living today.

Today is the day to discover what’s been within you all along. 

This is an episode you won’t want to miss!

Follow Joy here! https://www.instagram.com/joynessthebrave 

Check out her new book here:  https://joyclarkson.substack.com/p/books

For full episode notes, head to: https://marymarantz.com/themarymarantzshow

More About Joy Clarkson: Joy Clarkson is the author of Aggressively Happy and host of popular podcast, Speaking with Joy. She is the books editor for Plough Quarterly and a research associate in theology and literature at King's College London. Joy completed her PhD in theology at the University of St Andrews, where she researched how art can be a resource of hope and consolation. In her newest book, In You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, And Prayer, she examines seven ancient metaphors and what we can learn from paying attention to how we use words and imagery to describe our lives.