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Will there be rooted belonging if home was a colony built on reclaimed land fill? If connecting with the earth is seeking support for healing, are nature-based therapies "resourcing" the earth just like the colonists? "Earth my body, water my blood" is a call and response inquiry where an expressive arts therapist wrestles with social trauma, the ecological sense of selfhood, her own cultural belonging and our aesthetic responsibility in decolonizing/healing the earth and ourselves. A settler of colour in Canada responds to the call to returns to her land of origin Hong Kong- a former British colony -after the city has been through months of civil unrest, social wounding and flight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]