ABSTRACT
This chapter explores DiPrete’s journey with Park City, Utah, through conversation with the sagebrush and sage-grouse – the heart and heartbeat of the land. She describes how, as she opens herself to the land she calls home, she begins to realize the way in which dreams, traumas, and encounters intimate the recurrent themes of extraction, domination, and contamination of the mountainous area. Through the chapter, DiPrete traces her own trauma as an echo of the division and disciplining of the land, calling upon myths, archetypes, and nature to pattern a map to healing. Using terrapsychological inquiry, she shows how one can attune awareness to the interconnection between land and body and, in her particular example, how the sage grouse calls her into the liminal spaces of becoming. The heartbeat of the Earth, she describes, drums her back to her own heartbeat as a reminder to listen to the pain, breathe, and recognize the resilience that pulses through life.
