How Choosing Community Can Heal Our Loneliness And Rewire Daily Life
Jan 23, 2026
Community, Sovereignty, and the New Earth Frequency
There is a quiet question many of us are carrying right now—often beneath the louder ones.
Not What’s going to happen?
Not Who’s right?
But something far more intimate:
Where—and how—do I belong?
This is certainly a persistent question for me right now. Not that I'm in a hurry to find the answer, because life feels like it's happening in perfect timing and I go where the Field directs me. But I do ponder that question again and again.
In the opening interview of Season 6 of The Grace Space, I sat down with Cynthia Tina, founder of Community Finders and Eco-Village Tours, to explore that question not as an abstraction, but as a lived reality.
What emerged was not a prescription for the future, but a remembrance of something ancient—something the body already knows.
Belonging Is Not a Concept
It’s a biological and spiritual truth.
Humans did not evolve in isolation. We evolved through micro-connections: shared meals, shared work, shared responsibility, shared care.
Cynthia speaks beautifully about this—not as nostalgia, but as physiology and ecology. Social connection isn’t a luxury. It’s not something we “earn” once everything else is in place. Once our work is done. It’s part of how we are designed to thrive.
Modern life, particularly in the West, has normalized fragmentation; living among people we don’t know, outsourcing care and food and responsibility, coordinating connection as a logistical task, and often, raising children alone without the support of family.
In contrast, intentional community reverses the default.
It asks first: Do we resonate? Do we share values? Do we choose one another -- on purpose?
Only then do the logistics follow.
Community and Sovereignty Are Not Opposites
They are allies. This was a relief to me, knowing my tendency to be 'squirrelly' and jealous of my personal space.
One of the most important clarifications in this conversation is that sovereignty does not mean isolation. True sovereignty includes choice, consent, agency, and self-responsibility. Healthy community does not dissolve the individual—it supports them.
Cynthia dispels the myth that intentional communities are only for extroverts or people who want constant interaction. In reality, many community dwellers are introverted, value solitude, and choose community precisely because it allows for both connection and privacy—without the exhaustion of constant coordination.
You can close your door. And you can step into the garden and find a neighbor.
That balance is not a compromise. It’s a kind of coherence.
A Living Ecosystem, Not a Lifestyle Brand
When Cynthia speaks about healthy community, she doesn’t use the language of success metrics or permanence.
She speaks in ecological terms. A thriving community, like a healthy ecosystem, is defined by quality of exchange, frequency of connection, adaptability and mutual contribution. Some communities last decades. Some exist for a season. But longevity alone is not the measure of vitality.
This is an important reframe in a culture obsessed with scale, productivity, and permanence. Community is not a product. It’s a living field.
The New Earth Isn’t a Place We Escape To
It’s a way we choose to live—now.
Throughout our conversation, a subtle but powerful truth emerged: Hope doesn’t come from waiting for the world to change. Hope comes from living differently now. I'm not a fan of the word 'hope', but I use it here because the very act of living differently now obviates the need for hope.
Cynthia doesn’t speak about community as a solution to collapse or a reaction against the world. She speaks about it as something nourishing in the present moment. Growing food. Knowing your neighbors.
Raising children together. Caring for elders. Building homes with hands and heart.
This is not fantasy. It’s already happening—in quiet pockets all over the world. And it’s not limited to eco-villages or rural land. Community is a state of being—a frequency we carry into place.
A Gentle Beginning
I chose this conversation to open Season 6 of The Grace Space because it sets the tone for everything that follows.
Not urgency, spectacle, or fear. But choice, belonging, and embodied sovereignty.
As Cynthia reminds us, we often have more choice than we realize. The first step is remembering that other ways of living exist—and allowing ourselves to get curious.
The New Earth does not arrive with force. It arrives within us first, as the knowing of our true and sovereign nature, and then through relationship.
And it begins, quietly, when we choose to belong -- on purpose.
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