10/28/2025
Nature carries so much wisdom. There are many parallels to growing a garden and being a healing practitioner.
I would like to share some of the things I learned about life and about myself this year as I close out my first successful gardening season with so much gratitude.
My garden taught me the value of picking myself up and trying again, over and over.
There are things in life that we desire despite having little to no experience. And sometimes, when the habit or practice doesn’t come easy, the feeling of defeat can be overwhelming and override our willingness to try again.
But that’s life.
The practice and practice and practice and continued failures and defeats are crucial to our learning experience, the development of our fortitude, and subsequently the foundation to our eventual success.
We must practice grace for ourselves when attempting to become or learn something new.
That’s the point: we don’t know how to do it—why would we expect ourselves to have it mastered?
To add to that:
Sometimes life, circumstances, and tragedy can become so overwhelming that we feel broken, incomplete, and incapable. But deep within, underneath that feeling of despair, is a spirit, a force, so full of resilience that so dearly wants to carry us through to the other side.
Don’t give up when things get bad, but do take time to rest and recover. Let yourself lean on others when your spirit feels heavy. This season taught me that at the core of life there is a desire to persist, as well as the profound beauty that emerges after the wreckage of a storm.
And.
In the end, things take their natural course of rising and falling.
Waxing and waning.
Emergence and hibernation.
Inevitable life and inevitable death.
I’m right in the middle of that one, as I practice saying goodbye to months of persistent nurture and care for something that gave back to me 100x more than what I put in. It’s important to know when to nurture and when to let go.
I am so grateful to witness life blooming, over and over, and integrate this cycle having learned so much about what I am capable of, what people are capable of, and what nature is capable of.
I’m glad I didn’t give up.
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