Pruning a plant is a lesson in life psychology

You care for a plant by watering it and giving it sunlight. But not simply water and sun, but you put effort into learning how much of water and what kind of sunlight.

If you spend time with it, it will speak to you. When the plant is not happy, you will know.

When you prune your plant, you carefully select the dying, damaged, yellow, diseased, old and overcrowding leaves. You need to know your plant to know what to keep.

And you know in order to keep it healthy, you need to make certain choices. Prune off the impeding parts of the plant decisively so that your plant can grow healthier.

Can you make those cuts necessary to keep your plant thriving?

Similar to life and living, if you have spent time with yourself, when you are unhappy, you will know.

Take a look at your life - what’s broken, coming to the end of its life cycle, sick, in trouble, overwhelming, no longer helpful to you in the current season of life. Not everything that’s broken cannot be fixed, not everything that’s sick cannot be healed. Not everything old needs to be discarded.

Ponder what you need and want to keep, and how to nurture those.

Consider the parts you might need or want to prune. Perhaps it has been a while, perhaps different people have mentioned it to you, perhaps you have an achey dread of knowing already.

Can you make those cuts necessary to keep yourself thriving?