I Learned That Environment Matters.
For me, the garden has never been just about plants.
Part of my story includes finding the courage to leave a cult and begin the deeply personal journey of rediscovering who I was outside of what I had been taught to believe.
I had to examine what had been planted in me, what I believed, what I had accepted as normal and who I was when those things were no longer defining my life.
That's when the language of the garden began to mean something completely different.
Today, as a gardener, author, speaker and guide, I use the lessons of the garden to encourage women to look differently at what surrounds them, what they've been taught to nurture and what they want to grow from here.