Root Chakra Healing Pt. 2: Rebuilding Trust When Life Feels Unsteady

When our roots are tended, we move through change with resilience, feel at home in our body, and trust life’s natural flow.

Last week, we explored the root chakra as the energetic foundation of our being – our aliveness, our right to be here – and how it quietly, and sometimes not-so-quietly, shapes our lives.

If you missed Part 1, you can read it here.

Today, we dive into what it means to rebuild embodied safety and trust – the kind that holds you steady through “life-ing,” from the inside out.

Root chakra healing is not about doing more or fixing yourself.

It’s about remembering what it feels like to be at home in your body, in your temple, in your aliveness and excitement. 

Trusting: you can root here.
You can be here.
You can grow.

With a steady foundation, you begin trusting your pace, your rhythm, your process.
You know that what’s meant for you will root and bloom in its own divine timing.

Nurturing your roots and rebuilding unshakeable, embodied trust:

1. (REALLY) LISTENING TO YOUR BODY

Listening starts with noticing. 

How is your body already supporting you?

Can you notice those given gifts, those everyday miracles, all the ways your body naturally keeps you alive – digesting, breathing, heart-beating, carrying you through each day. 

Expressing gratitude for all it does deepens trust and connection within you. 

In practice, it could be showing your appreciation out loud saying “thank you”, giving yourself a hug, or asking daily: What does my body need right now?

And honoring the request.

Maybe it’s rest. Maybe it’s movement. Maybe it’s to cry, to stretch, to be held.

Our body is constantly communicating through sensations, and when we start listening deeply and responding with intention, we rewire trust.

Our body learns: It’s safe to be here.
I’m welcomed.

2. LETTING THE EARTH HOLD YOU

The root chakra thrives on contact with the Earth.
Walking barefoot. Sitting with a tree. Touching grass.

Lie down in child's pose, fetal position, or savasana and feel the weight of your body, feel the Earth holding you.

This fosters your sense of belonging and communion with something ancient, vast, wise – larger than yourself – that’s always supporting you.

The Earth reminds us: You belong here.

3. NOURISHING YOUR ENVIRONMENT

Your body is your first home, and your environment follows.
Tend to your space as you would to sacred ground.

Cleanse with sage or palo santo.
Add plants, stones, or textures that feel good, earthy, comforting.

It’s not about perfection, it’s about resonance: curating a space that reminds you of nature, your wholeness, your beingness.

When our surroundings feel supporting, our body settles, our nervous system breathes.

4. GETTING YOUR NEEDS MET

So many women give endlessly yet feel guilty when they need rest or support.

Root chakra healing helps you remember – not just in your mind, but in your felt experience – that having your needs met is sacred, and it’s your birthright.

Nourishment comes in many forms:
food, movement, touch, connection, feeling seen.

In practice:

Tending to your inner child.
Tending to your finances.
Tending to your close connections.
Knowing what truly nourishes you, and directing your attention and resources toward having your needs met.

Our roots heal when we reclaim our right to have what we need – to survive, and to thrive.

5. CREATING ROOT-CENTERED RITUALS

Rituals help us root intention into form.

For example:

Cook a hearty meal slowly, with reverence.
Nourish yourself with root veggies and food that comes from the Earth.
Integrate exercises that help you mobilize, stabilize, and strengthen your lower body.
Massage your feet before bed, or while at your desk.

Tending to your roots isn’t another to-do to check off your list. 

It’s an act of devotion.

It’s the felt experience of anchoring into your beingness – providing a safe home for your soul to land, for your energy to move, and your creations to bloom.

Healing isn’t linear.

Some days you’ll feel rooted and clear; others, you’ll wobble – and that’s okay.

Roots deepen through presence, not perfection.
Every time you pause, breathe, and re-orient toward safety over mind-construed fear, your foundation strengthens.

Healing your root chakra is devotion to being here and to trusting yourself, your body, and life.

As you ground into the soil of your being and cultivate safety in your world, your roots strengthen – steady, unshakeable, alive.

If this conversation stirs something in you – a longing to feel rooted in your body and safe in your becoming – you’re invited to join me for Sacred Roots, a 90-minute live class where we’ll weave these teachings into embodied practice.

Grounding, releasing, and reconnecting to the pulse of life.

With heart & devotion,

Marina