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The article focuses on a personal and theoretical exploration of immigrant identity and colonial history through a critical self-study. Topics include the author's lineage and relationship with ancestors, the application of theoretical frameworks by thinkers like Kristeva and Fanon, and the concept of "depth education" to engage with complexities and discomfort in knowledge creation.

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]

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