ReConnect with Plant Wisdom

In this episode, Rebecca Tekell and I explore what happens when we stop trying to “save the planet” and start remembering that the Earth has been speaking to us all along. This is a conversation for anyone who carries that quiet ache of disconnection or the hum of fear beneath the noise of daily life, and is longing to find their way back home. We talk about the deep grief many of us feel, not because something is wrong with us, but because we’ve forgotten how to listen. Most importantly, we explore how every act of presence... laying in clover, touching a tree, sitting in observation, becomes a powerful form of participation in the planet’s healing. In this episode about Nature communication, you’ll learn: 🌿Why disconnection isn’t personal failure, it’s forgetting how to listen 🌿 How nature communicates through sensation, intuition, and synchronicity 🌿 The link between regeneration, observation, and feminine wildness 🌿 Why we can stop “fixing” nature and start rebuilding relationship ✨ Next Step ✨ Bring these insights into LIVED PRACTICE inside the Naturally Conscious Community (NCC). 🌿 Let’s turn reflection into integration — and make it real in your ecosystem. JOIN HERE FOR FREE ✨ Resources 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community – Blooming Sprouts Membership 🌱 Extended Plant Consciousness Workshop 🌱 Damanhur’s Tree Orientation project 🌱 Make it REAL in your ecosystem. TRY NCC HERE FOR FREE 👤 Guest Spotlight 👤 Rebecca Harrell Tickell is an acclaimed filmmaker and co-founder of Big Picture Ranch, a regenerative farm and film studio dedicated to creating movies that shift the global conversation on environmental issues. Alongside her husband and creative partner Joshua Tickell, she has directed and produced a slate of award-winning documentaries, including the Sundance Audience Award winner “Fuel”, the Cannes-selected “The Big Fix”, and the critically praised “Pump.” Rebecca’s groundbreaking film “Kiss the Ground”—narrated by Woody Harrelson—became a cultural touchstone, influencing U.S. agricultural policy and helping spark national awareness around soil health and regenerative farming. Its 2023 sequel, “Common Ground,” featuring narrators like Jason Momoa and Laura Dern, debuted at Tribeca, won the Human/Nature Award, and became one of the top-grossing documentaries of the year. With over 15 years of filmmaking experience and ten major features to her name, Rebecca continues to use storytelling as a tool for environmental action, cultural awakening, and planetary healing. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partner: The Shift Network Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if the bridge back to connection isn’t more effort—but imagination itself? In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Mark Firehammer, creative visionary and founder of the Creative Humanity Alliance. Together we explore how imagination weaves ecosystems back together—between people, ideas, and the more-than-human world. This isn’t about escaping reality. It’s about remembering that imagination is how life thinks through us. Creativity is the connective tissue of renewal, collaboration, and relationship with all beings. You’ll discover how to use imagination as a tool for reconnection—within your art, your work, and your ecosystem. In this episode about Imagination & Connection with Nature, you’ll learn: 🌿 How imagination restores what division has fractured 🌿 The difference between creativity and imagination—and why both matter 🌿 How nature models co-creation without needing permission 🌿 Ways to move from isolated thinking to ecosystem collaboration ✨ Next Step ✨ Bring these insights into LIVED PRACTICE inside the Naturally Conscious Community (NCC). 🌿Let’s turn reflection into integration — and make it real in your ecosystem. JOIN HERE FOR FREE ✨ Resources 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Mark Firehammer's Work 🌱 Awaken Dormant Aura Layers with Plant Support Workshop (available inside Blooming Sprouts in NCC) - TRY IT HERE FOR FREE 🌱 Make it REAL in your ecosystem. TRY NCC HERE FOR FREE 👤 Guest Spotlight 👤 Mark Firehammer is the author of The Echo and the Voice, a genre-blending novel and musical journey exploring how culture shapes—and often suppresses—our authentic expression. As a songwriter, storyteller, and wellness innovator, Mark brings a radically refreshing perspective on what it means to live well, create meaningfully, and age without compromise. He is the creator of Feelness, a body-mind system designed to restore and maintain physical independence without traditional fitness. Mark’s mission is simple and profound: to help people move, live, and express themselves with greater freedom—physically, emotionally, and creatively. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partner: The Shift Network Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

Let's remember how to feel again. In this soul-expanding conversation with Becca Williams, emotions therapist and founder of Emotional Liberation, we explore how working with plant teachers like cannabis and psilocybin can help you build true emotional resilience. Together, we dive into the fine line between USING plants for escape and working WITH THEM as conscious allies — and how emotional healing is really about strengthening your nervous system to move through life’s waves with grace. Whether you’ve done the inner work and now crave deeper embodiment, or you’re learning to trust your emotions again, this episode will remind you: Nature doesn’t numb — Nature teaches you how to feel safely. In this episode about Emotional Liberation with Cannabis, you’ll learn: 🌿 What emotional liberation truly means and how to cultivate it daily 🌿 The difference between escapism and conscious collaboration with plant medicine 🌿 How cannabis can support nervous system resilience and emotional release 🌿 Why the root of trauma healing lies in rebuilding your ecosystem — not just your mindset ✨ Next Step ✨ Bring these insights into LIVED PRACTICE inside the Naturally Conscious Community (NCC). 🌿 Let’s turn reflection into integration — and make it real in your ecosystem. JOIN HERE FOR FREE ✨ Resources 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Learn More about Becca Williams 🌱 Make it REAL in your ecosystem. TRY NCC HERE FOR FREE 👤 Guest Spotlight 👤 Becca Williams is an Emotions Therapist and creator of Emotional Liberation, a pioneering approach to healing that blends sacred teachings, meditation, breathwork, and expressive movement to help people process and release trauma. With a background as a Registered Dietitian, clinical nutritionist, and former NPR journalist, Becca brings both science and spirit into her work. She supports individuals in understanding emotions as an intuitive guidance system — using plant allies like cannabis and psilocybin to strengthen the nervous system and access true emotional resilience. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partner: The Shift Network Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

Have you ever felt like life keeps stepping on you—yet somehow you still grow back stronger? In this episode, we explore what grass can teach us about resilience without hardening. From sidewalks to prairies, grass shows us how to bend without breaking, adapt without losing ourselves, and find belonging in a disconnected world. This isn’t just about plants — it’s about how to RECOVER when life flattens you, how to ROOT deeper when pressure builds, and how to THRIVE again in your true rhythm. If you’re craving calm, connection, and a reminder that healing doesn’t require a retreat — just awareness — this conversation is for YOU. What You’ll Learn About Resilience & Our Nervous System 🌿 How grass models resilience without resistance 🌿 What “being stepped on” can teach us about recovery and adaptability 🌿 The science + spirit of grounding and nervous system regulation 🌿 Why belonging isn’t something to earn — it’s something to remember ✨ Next Step ✨ Join the Naturally Conscious Community to turn this insight into LIVED PRACTICE ✨ Resources 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Music of the Plants 🌱 Blooming Sprouts → Explore plant communication & embodiment 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

Discover what living consciously truly means — beyond theory and into daily rhythm, conscious leadership, and relationship with nature. In this expansive and grounding conversation with Roxanne Chaput, we explore how intuition, reciprocity, and multidimensional awareness shape the way we live, lead, and create. From corporate spaces to spiritual embodiment, this dialogue invites you to reimagine what it means to exist in integrity with your true nature. Hosted by Tigrilla Gardenia, Nature-Inspired Mentor and founder of the Naturally Conscious Community, Reconnect with Plant Wisdom explores ecosystem intelligence, plant communication, and conscious evolution through conversations that bridge science, spirit, and lived experience. ✨ Ready to move from awareness to embodiment? Join the Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — a global space where ideas like these become living practices. What You’ll Learn About Conscious Leadership & Nature-Based Living 🌿 Harmonize intuition and logic to lead consciously 🌿 Embody multidimensional awareness in work and life 🌿 Recognize truth as relational — and expand your collaboration with others 🌿 Reclaim your connection to land, ancestry, and kin through ecosystem practices ✨ Resources 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Join the Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Explore Roxanne’s retreats 👤 Guest Spotlight: Roxanne Chaput Roxanne Chaput is a globally renowned modern-day embodied Creatrix Oracle, known for her revolutionary intensional path-cutting for conscious creators, change agents, and disruptive embodied heart leaders. Her work supports the anchoring of primordial, creational, god-sovereign liberty — guiding humanity back to reunification with the sacred passages of land that sustain, provide, and nurture through the elemental kingdoms of creation. Through her retreats and teachings at The Illumination Retreat, Roxanne helps others awaken their multidimensionality, integrate ancestral wisdom, and lead from the heart with integrity, consciousness, and reciprocity. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What happens when activism, ecology, and art merge into one radical act of remembrance? In this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, I sit down with playwright, author, and eco-feminist Karen Malpede to explore how theater becomes a living witness to humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. Together, we dive into the roots of eco-feminism, radical creativity, conscious death, and what it truly means to embody change. Through her decades of work—intertwining ritual, activism, and performance—Karen reveals how storytelling can reawaken our ecological memory and call us back into relationship with Earth. If you’ve ever wondered how art can transform consciousness or how to live in rhythm with the cycles of creation and loss, this episode will move you deeply. What You’ll Learn About Eco-Feminism & Art 🌱 How eco-feminism bridges activism, art, and embodied awareness 🌱 The power of theater as witness, not protest 🌱 Why slowing down time can change perception and restore connection 🌱 How creative expression mirrors ecological regeneration ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Karen Malpede’s memoir Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Ripe Deaths (Vine Leaves Press) 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — Join the Ecosystem) 👤 Guest Spotlight 👤 Karen Malpede is a groundbreaking playwright, director, and author whose work spans more than six decades at the forefront of political and ecofeminist theater. Her upcoming memoir, Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths (Vine Leaves Press, October 2025), is a powerful reflection on love, loss, and the enduring role of art in times of grief and transformation. Karen brings a rare and resonant voice to conversations about creativity, legacy, and the human spirit. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if every meal could become a conversation with nature? In this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, I sit down with holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch to explore how food becomes a living bridge between body, spirit, and ecosystem. Christine shares her deeply personal journey from multiple sclerosis diagnosis to full vitality through a radical reconnection with plants—not just as nutrients, but as teachers of self-healing. Together, we reimagine eating as a form of co-creation, where plants and animals express their fullest intelligence through us. You’ll hear how nature’s rhythms, ancestral memory, and intuitive listening can guide not only what you eat, but how you live. What You’ll Learn About Conscious Eating and Self-Healing 🌱 How to rebuild trust in your body’s innate intelligence. 🌱 Why food isn’t a resource—it’s a relationship. 🌱 What plants teach us about healing through cooperation, not control. 🌱 How honoring seasonality and cycles leads to sustainable well-being. ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Christine Rook’s Substack: The Fresh Life 🌱 Holistic Transformation Guide 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — Join the Ecosystem) 👤 Guest Spotlight 👤 Christine Ruch is a Holistic Transformation Guide who helps women with Multiple Sclerosis reconnect to their body’s innate wisdom and healing potential. After 20 years healing her own MS naturally through whole food nutrition, nervous system restoration, spiritual practice, plant medicine, deep self-inquiry, and both Eastern and Western modalities, Christine now guides others on their own transformative path. Bridging science and soul, she offers tools to move beyond symptom management into lasting inner healing—sharing insight, hope, and grounded practices for listeners ready to reclaim their health from the inside out. 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

In this conversation with eco-therapist and author Clara Schroeder, we explore what happens when you stop trying to “fix” nature and start remembering you are nature. We talk about everyday, practical ways to reconnect—whether you’re in a forest, a city park, or standing by your kitchen windowsill with a houseplant. If you’ve felt anxious, lonely, or creatively flat, this episode offers a grounded path back to belonging and resilience. You’ll gain: clarity on why disconnection feels so heavy, gentle practices to re-attune your senses, and a new perspective on letting Nature co-guide your life. What You’ll Learn About Nature Therapy for Anxiety 🌱 Ecotherapy 101: invite the land to co-lead your healing (even in cities). 🌱 Micro-rituals that work: breath, morning beverage gratitude, and “place-based” noticing. 🌱 Houseplants as teachers of adaptation, reciprocity, and rhythm. 🌱 Community matters: we’re not meant to do this alone. ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Clara’s book: Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — discussions, classes, live events 🌱 Sprouts Writing & Creativity Group 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

Cities don’t have to fight nature—they can breathe with it. In this conversation with artist–ecologist Josh Harrison, we explore cities as living ecosystems: cooling with plants, capturing stormwater, and designing with indigenous stewardship in mind. We go beyond “green decor” to talk symbiogenesis, circular materials, and what shifts when we remember: I am nature, and I have a role to play. You’ll leave with fresh language, grounded examples, and a clearer sense of how to tend your place—on the street you live. What You’ll Learn About Ecoliving & Urban Ecology 🌱 Why urban rewilding works: evapotranspiration, shade, and soil as climate tech 🌱 How indigenous fire and tending create resilience (not chaos) 🌱 A practical look at green roofs, bioswales, and circular materials (upcycled “soil”) 🌱 The mindset reframe from “humans vs. nature” to “we are nature” ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Leaf Island (green roof & circular soil innovation) 🌱 Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if wildness is our DEEPEST intelligence? In this solo episode, I explore how plants model adaptive, root-deep wisdom—and how you can rewild your inner landscape without burning your life down. We’ll move from self-containment to flow, learn to read openings like a plant reads light, and create the conditions (soil, water, community) your authentic expression needs to thrive. You’ll leave with a grounded way to notice where your gifts want to grow now, plus simple practices to partner with a plant ally and build a living ecosystem that supports your next evolution. What You’ll Learn About Being Yourself and Personal Growth 🌱 Wildness = adaptability: respond to change without losing your essence. 🌱 Flow over containment: grow toward light, set living membranes (not rigid walls). 🌱 Prepare the ground: design conditions—time, space, community—so your gifts can root. 🌱 Partner with a plant ally to mirror your wild intelligence in daily life. ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Reconnect with Plant Kin (monthly workshop) — last Saturday each month 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (Blooming/Flourishing Sprouts) 🌱 Root to Rise discovery call 🌱 Episode 74 (living membranes vs rigid boundaries) 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club & Plant-Inspired Masterclass ✨ Chapters ✨ 00:00 Introduction 08:15 Path & context 18:04 Ad: Zencastr 26:40 Defining wildness 34:50 Guiding your wild self 43:08 Cattail lesson 51:27 Practice & next steps 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if stories of monsters could help us see climate change in a new light? In this conversation with fantasy author Laurel Colless, we explore her magical eco-fiction series that uses imagination, environmental awareness, and the voices of nature spirits to help children (and us adults!) reconnect with the living world. You’ll discover how fantasy can carry truth, how “nature spirits gone rogue” reveal our own relationship with consumption, and why nurturing imagination is essential for the next generation. What You’ll Learn About Eco Fantasy Fiction for Climate Awareness 🌱 Why fantasy fiction is a powerful way to tell climate truths 🌱 How monsters reflect human choices and ecological imbalance 🌱 The role of plant communication and “tree speakers” in reimagining connection 🌱 Why fostering imagination is essential for hope and resilience ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Laurel Colless book series (Eye of the Storm Lord, Renegale Tales, Knights Unite) 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (courses, discussions, events) 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club 👤 Guest Spotlight: Laurel Colless, Children's Author → laurelcolless.com Australian-New Zealander children’s author Laurel Colless grew up with books as her friends. Always a fan of adventure stories with twists, Laurel reverts to her eleven-year-old self when writing the Peter Blue books, a science fantasy series where a group of friends at an eco-school solve big world problems and battle evil climate demons birthed from human garbage dumps. A literary-comparatist by education, Laurel spent 25 years working in environmental business and journalism in Asia, the US and Europe, before coming back to writing. She is the founder of the Carbon Busters Club, a kids’ climate-science program that combines storytelling with science education. In 2013, Laurel Colless became an Al Gore Climate Reality Leader. When Laurel is not writing or busting carbon, she likes reading, watching movies, forest walking with her dog (and sometimes even her cat!) and spending time with her teenage daughters. Laurel now makes her home in Helsinki with her Finnish husband, their two daughters, a wiry-haired dachshund and a rescue cat. ✨ Chapters ✨ 00:00 Introduction 08:10 Essential Nature & Belief 16:30 Plasticity & Acceptance 24:45 Self-Awareness Tools 32:55 Natural Rhythms 40:17 Ad: Music of Plants 49:30 Plant Types & Self-Quiz 57:30 Closing & Community 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if living authentically was as natural as a plant growing in its right soil? In this episode, I sit down with therapist and podcaster Mary Rothwell to explore what plants can teach us about self-acceptance, adaptation, and finding your true nature. What You’ll Learn 🌱 Why every plant—and every person—has an essential nature. 🌱 How to reframe limiting beliefs as “bodyguards” you can befriend and release. 🌱 Why authenticity means honoring your cycles, not constant blooming. 🌱 How therapy + coaching can complement each other in reclaiming your true self. ✨ Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Join the Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Mary Rothwell’s podcast: No Shrinking Violets 🌱 Mary’s Live Like a Plant quiz 👤 Guest Spotlight: Mary Rothwell of Mary Rothwell Integrative Wellness Mary Rothwell is a licensed therapist, certified integrative mental health practitioner, and certified forest therapy practitioner. With 35+ years of experience, she combines traditional therapy with a holistic, whole-body framework rooted in nature. She coaches women on sleep and wellbeing in menopause, and hosts the podcast No Shrinking Violets. Her upcoming book, Live Like a Plant, and her interactive quiz help women rediscover their essential nature, break free from limiting narratives, and take up the space they were born to inhabit. Learn more about Mary’s work ✨ Chapters ✨ 00:00 Introduction 08:10 Essential Nature & Belief 16:30 Plasticity & Acceptance 24:45 Self-Awareness Tools 32:55 Natural Rhythms 40:17 Ad: Music of Plants 49:30 Plant Types & Self-Quiz 57:30 Closing & Community 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if everything you’ve been told about food and farming is a myth? In this conversation with author and journalist Elspeth Hay, we unravel the “No Farms, No Food” narrative and explore how humans can reclaim our place in the ecosystem. From the overlooked nourishment of acorns and chestnuts to the history of colonization and lost commons, this episode reframes humans as keystone species—ecosystem engineers with a vital role to play in regeneration. ✨ Listen + Resources ✨ 🌱 Expanded Show Notes 🌱 Join the Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Feed Us With Trees by Elspeth Hay What You’ll Learn 🌱 Why the “No Farms, No Food” story is rooted in colonial trauma 🌱 How tree foods like acorns and chestnuts can transform food systems 🌱 Why humans are meant to be ecosystem engineers—like beavers and oaks 🌱 How to begin rediscovering your role in your local ecosystem 👤 Guest Spotlight: Elspeth Hay Elspeth Hay is a journalist, radio producer, gardener, and author of Feed Us With Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Living on Cape Cod, she explores regenerative food systems and how humans can rebuild lost relationships with keystone species like oak. Her work reframes food not as extraction, but as collaboration with the ecosystems that sustain us. Learn more about Elspeth’s work ✨ Chapters ✨ 00:00 Introduction 08:06 Origins of the “No Farm” Narrative 16:19 Historical Shifts in Food Systems 24:48 Modern Challenges in Agriculture 32:53 Community and Local Food Connections 41:04 Cultural Stories About Farming 49:10 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Roles 57:10 Closing Reflections 59:43 Get Feed Us with Trees 🔗 Connect & Explore More 🌿 Website 🌿 Contact 🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious Partners Socials 📸 Instagram 📘 Facebook 💼 LinkedIn ▶️ YouTube 🎵 Credits Opening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

When Sarah Russo and I sat down, we knew we were going deep—and we did. Together we explored her graphic novel Herbs for the Apocalypse, a raw and powerful work that blends science, punk aesthetics, and plant wisdom into a call for revolution. We talked about what happens when plants with great power meet human fear, about how creativity becomes a collaboration with our green allies, and about the beauty of sacrifice as plants show us daily. This conversation isn’t just about herbs or apocalyptic futures—it’s about resilience, resistance, and reimagining our relationship with plants as kin and co-conspirators. This is a provocative exploration of what it means to listen, to co-create, and to allow plants to challenge our assumptions about beauty, power, and survival. Topics Covered about The Apocolypse & Revolution ➡️ The creative process behind Herbs for the Apocalypse as a plant-human collaboration. ➡️ How plants embody sacrifice and resilience, modeling true revolution. ➡️ The tension between criminalizing powerful plants and learning from them. ➡️ Why plant communication expands far beyond science into lived, creative experience. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 08:02 Bridging Science and Spirit 16:09 Translating Plant Intelligence 24:35 Redefining Identity 32:36 Plant Rituals & Initiation 40:42 Personal Risks & Sacrifices Resources Mentioned 🌱 Herbs for the Apocalypse (Sarah Russo’s graphic novel) 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 The Final Herb of the Apocalypse 🌱 HFTA Short Film Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Herbs of the Apocalypse More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

I sit down with regenerative garden designer and landscape architect Matthew Mehuys to rethink what a “garden” actually is. We move past domination language and into relationship—how to design living spaces where humans, plants, soil, fungi, and wildlife co-create. We unpack low-maintenance (read: ecosystem-literate) design, right plant/right place, and succession as the real secret to beauty with ease. We also touch garden history (from walled formality to naturalistic planting), why suburbs can be biodiversity hotspots, and how companies benefit when biophilic spaces nurture people, not just property values. If you’ve ever felt the tension between aesthetics and aliveness, this one will shift your vocabulary—and your planting plan. Topics Covered about Regenerative Garden Design ➡️ Design as relationship: from “controlling Nature” to co-creating with plant kin ➡️ The true path to low maintenance: soil health, succession, and species fit ➡️ Urban and corporate spaces that invite touch, awe, and ongoing interaction ➡️ How language shapes design choices—and client outcomes Chapters 00:00 Exploring the Garden as Co-Creation 08:19 The Art of Listening Below Ground 16:37 Microbial Kinship and Nonlinear Growth 25:06 Letting Nature Take the Lead 28:01 Podcast with Zencastr (Ad) 33:21 Interspecies Dialogue 41:44 Reclaiming Wonder in the Garden Resources Mentioned 🌱 Matthew’s Regenerative Garden online masterclass + free 30-min training/call 🌱 Matthew’s book: 12 Universal Laws of Nature 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 My Friday Plant Consciousness Commentary series Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // The Shift Network More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

Is your intuition is truly “yours,” or is it a conversation with the living field all around you? In this episode, I sit down with Laura Alyn—a true polymath, hula dancer, scientist, and plant communicator—for a deep exploration of intuition, plant consciousness, and what it means to be truly present with our bodies and our kin. We talk about how plants teach us to trust subtle signals, integrate the wisdom of art and science, and dissolve the old boundaries between “woo” and “rigor.” Laura and I dig into how embracing all your senses—physical, subtle, and imaginative—can transform how you relate to nature, your creativity, and even your business. Plus, we share stories of how movement, mythology, and collective fields are reshaping how we know ourselves. Curious? This conversation is for anyone ready to experience intuition, plant communication, and self-awareness in a whole new light. Topics Covered about Plant Communication and Intuition ➡️ What intuition really is (beyond just “gut feeling”) and why it’s relational, not isolated ➡️ How plants and movement practices (like hula) can help you access deeper wisdom ➡️ The power of integrating science, art, and myth in your personal evolution ➡️ Why collective fields (including non-human kin) change how we know and create Chapters 00:00 Defining Polymathy and Interconnected Curiosity 08:22 Living a Life of Many Threads 16:47 The Gift and Challenge of Nonlinear Paths 25:05 Weaving Ecosystems and Identities 33:31 Plant Wisdom, Personal Myth, and Creative Integration 36:03 Learn with Gaia (Ad) 42:00 The Courage to Stay Whole Resources Mentioned 🌱 Gaia.com 🌱 ILA Radio 🌱 Book: The Island of Missing Trees 🌱 Enhanced Plant Communication workshop Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Gaia.com More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

What does it really mean to be human in a world that often asks us to disconnect from our true nature? In this episode, I sit down with Layton Fulton for an honest, deeply personal conversation about returning to our roots and reconnecting with the essence of who we are. Layton shares his journey from rural farm life to a conscious exploration of plant medicine and self-awareness. We dive into the power of unconditional love, the wisdom of intuition, and why being human is about honoring our rhythms and building authentic relationships—with nature, with others, and with ourselves. If you’re searching for practical inspiration to help you remember what it means to be human, this episode will feel like a homecoming. Topics Covered about Nature Based Healing ➡️ Layton’s story of remembering what it means to be human through nature and rural wisdom ➡️ The power of intuition, presence, and unconditional love in the human experience ➡️ How plant medicine and hypnotherapy support the journey of remembering our true selves ➡️ Real-life practices for remembering what it means to be human every day Chapters 00:00 Why “remembering humanity” matters 08:15 Farm childhood and respect for all beings 16:40 Exploring consciousness 25:05 Ethical hunting, food vibration 34:18 Ad: The Shift Network 41:55 From hypnotherapy to psilocybin 58:10 Closing reflections Resources Mentioned 🌱 LifeCraftT.me 🌱 The SHIFT Network (conscious evolution courses) 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club and Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // The Shift Network More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

Parenting in today’s world can feel like walking a tightrope—how do we prepare our kids for a planet facing so much change without scaring or overwhelming them? In this conversation with journalist and author Bridget Shirvell, we discuss the art of raising children who feel connected to nature, empowered to problem-solve, and resilient in the face of the climate crisis. Bridget shares insights from her book Parenting in a Climate Crisis: A Handbook for Turning Fear Into Action, along with practical ways families can nurture curiosity, confidence, and deep kinship with the natural world. We also talk about how these lessons aren’t just for kids. Topics Covered about Parenting in a Climate Crisis ➡️ How to raise resilient, curious kids in a rapidly changing climate. ➡️ Practical tips for connecting children (and parents) to nature every day. ➡️ Why learning from other kin—plants, animals, fungi—shapes deeper listening and problem-solving. ➡️ How parenting for the planet teaches adults as much as it teaches kids. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 08:10 Rethinking personal-care habits & consumption 16:15 Glass vs Plastic: truth about packaging and recycling 19:42 Fairphone 24:30 Product redesign: aluminum tubes & zero-waste swaps 32:45 Consumer power: influencing supply chains for change 41:00 Hidden health risks: EMF, toxins & bathroom air quality 57:40 Daily green-bathroom rituals & mindset shifts 65:00 Closing reflections Resources Mentioned 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club and Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Bridget's Book: "Parenting in a Climate Crisis" | Shop UK | Shop US More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Marko Petrovic, a modern mystic and conscious entrepreneur who embodies living with humility and presence in the mystery of life. We explore what it means to move beyond just knowing into truly experiencing connection—with nature, ancestral wisdom, and our inner selves. Marko shares his journey through silence, language, and place, showing how these open us to deeper awareness and our natural rhythms. For creative, multipassionate souls navigating complex minds, this conversation offers encouragement to embrace willingness over readiness and to trust the flow of life supported by plant kin and nature’s guidance. Topics Covered about Living with Presence ➡️ Mysticism as direct experience: living with humility and connection to life’s mystery. ➡️ The journey from silence and stillness to presence and flow in daily life. ➡️ Language, ancestral ties, and place as portals to deeper connection with nature. ➡️ Honoring inner senses (gut, heart, mind) and reawakening natural awareness. ➡️ Embracing willingness over readiness to follow inspiration and evolve. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 08:10 Rethinking personal-care habits & consumption 16:15 Glass vs Plastic: truth about packaging and recycling 19:42 Fairphone 24:30 Product redesign: aluminum tubes & zero-waste swaps 32:45 Consumer power: influencing supply chains for change 41:00 Hidden health risks: EMF, toxins & bathroom air quality 57:40 Daily green-bathroom rituals & mindset shifts 65:00 Closing reflections Resources Mentioned 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club and Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Music of the Plants More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

In this episode, I sit down with Joshua Onysko, a serial entrepreneur and eco-innovator, to unpack one of the biggest challenges facing us as plant lovers and conscious humans: plastic pollution. We dive deep into why plastic is still everywhere, why recycling isn’t the full solution, and how big corporations keep pushing cheap plastic despite the environmental cost. Joshua shares his journey of creating truly plastic-free skincare brands and highlights some inspiring innovations, like modular, repairable tech and plantable packaging. This episode offers tangible insights and inspiration to green your life without the overwhelm. Topics Covered about Plastic Pollution Solutions ➡️ Why plastic persists despite environmental harm and the limits of recycling ➡️ The power of reconnecting with plant kin to shift consumer behavior naturally ➡️ Innovations in zero-plastic skincare, modular tech, and plantable packaging ➡️ How everyday choices and consumer pressure can drive systemic change Chapters 00:00 Introduction 08:10 Rethinking personal-care habits & consumption 16:15 Glass vs Plastic: truth about packaging and recycling 19:42 Fairphone 24:30 Product redesign: aluminum tubes & zero-waste swaps 32:45 Consumer power: influencing supply chains for change 41:00 Hidden health risks: EMF, toxins & bathroom air quality 57:40 Daily green-bathroom rituals & mindset shifts 65:00 Closing reflections Resources Mentioned 🌱 Pangea Organics 🌱Alpine Provisions 🌱 Naturally Conscious Community Expanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life. Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player. 👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships // Get to Know Me, Tigrilla // // Let's Work Together // // Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Fairphone More Partners Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia. // Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube