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Ep.78 Trying to Make Sense of the World
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In this introspective episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, I open up about the challenges I am facing making sense of the world. I've been grappling with the complexities of navigating a world filled with uncertainty. As I reflect on my own struggles, I draw inspiration from the wisdom of plants and the natural world. Through this lens, I explore the significance of embracing our vulnerabilities and finding meaning in our experiences.
I invite you to join me in a conversation about growth, change, and the importance of connecting with both yourself and the ecosystem around you. By recognizing the interconnectedness of our journeys, we can foster a deeper sense of purpose and community.
Join me for a heartfelt exploration that will inspire you to reflect on your own path while connecting with the wisdom of plants.
Topics Covered about making sense of the world
➡️ Embracing vulnerability as a pathway to growth.
➡️ Finding meaning in uncertainty through plant wisdom.
➡️ The importance of community and interconnectedness in personal journeys.
➡️ Nurturing your own unique brilliance in the world.
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Transcript
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Hello, hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom. It's me, Tigere Gardenia. I have to admit, ah I've been avoiding this episode.
00:00:15
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Not this episode in particular, but I've been um really struggling to ah to to record an episode, not because I don't have anything to share. um i have ah i have a long I have a long list. Look, my my beautifully fun notebook.
00:00:32
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Um, I have a long list of topics and, you know, things that I've been planning on bringing to you. Um, and at the same time, none of those feel adequate right now. Um, probably because I, okay, here it is. This is going to be, this is not and going to be, this is episode 78, trying to make sense of the world.
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Welcome to reconnect with plant wisdom. I'm your host Tigri La Gardenia, nature inspired mentor and leadership coach. In this podcast, I share ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways in which plants can help you lead a naturally conscious life.
00:01:21
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Okay, so as you know, I am a nature-inspired mentor, I'm a life coach, and really my work for the last decade has all been about working closely with the plant kin home to bring, ah you know, kin's lessons, to bring their wisdom, to bring us in connection with plants and to bring plants in connection with us.
00:01:47
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So when the world goes a little bit haywire, um usually, and i've I've actually talked about this in a previous episode episode where I talked about why I don't really suffer from traditional ego anxiety, because I usually have a combination of my deep connection with plants that helps me sort of see things in a different way, mixed with um My spiritual path, which, as you know, I live in Damanhur, one of the largest spiritual eco-communities in the world, and living in Damanhur, I have a very, very strong, initiatic, esoteric base that helps me understand the cosmology of the universe. The other day, I was actually in a ritual dinner. We do these ritual dinners where you
00:02:33
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Get called to um in a ritual setting most of the time in the temples of humankind, which if you've never seen before, please head over to um head over to your Google search and put in Dom and her temples of humankind and prepare to be amazed.
00:02:52
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our underground temples are really considered the eighth wonder of the world or how I like to say the first wonder of the new world okay I didn't coin that somebody said it to me once but I just love it so much anyways so um These two things really help me understand the overall kind of game of life that's playing out and the plants really help me see it from a from a perspective that's not just tied to kind of the materialistic world that we often live in.
00:03:24
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I don't say materialistic as in capitalistic, I just mean materialistic as in made out of matter. And so this usually helps me see kind of the overall ecosystem, my role in the ecosystem where I'm supposed to go, what am I supposed to do and what's my life purpose and my soul mission mixed with this. So that helps me sort of process a lot of things that I find, you know, they are challenging. But I have to say that right now, this particular, and in the moment that I am recording this,
00:03:59
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It's challenging. I know i I understand the messiness from sort of an intellect, not intellectual, from a spiritual perspective. I have an episode, you know, saying the world is messy right now and this is why it's a good thing. And I still believe that. But that doesn't mean that I don't suffer in the moment that it's happening from the massive devastation you sometimes see around you, the the the tower that falls in order to be rebuilt again, you still have to mourn the following, right? The falling, the everything that you lose in that process or that is being lost in that process. And of course, you have moments of doubt, right? Doubt is an an incredibly important part of your of of the process, of the spiritual process, of the growth process to ensure that we're not going into Arrogance or we're not getting lost by our ego that that doubt gives you that moment of reflection that window of making sure that ah Where does this fit in is this on the really on the right path? What where am what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to course correct in any way? And so with the events of hurricane Helene
00:05:09
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um mixed with the political landscape in the United States. And even though I don't currently live in the United States, obviously that is, you know, my, just the same as I struggle when I hear certain things that are happening in Cuba as my heritage, the United States is my heritage. And so I struggle when I hear, you know, some of the things that are happening. um Go vote, no matter where you are or what you believe in, go vote. It's so important right now.
00:05:34
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um And so I guess I just wanted to come on and and just process a little out loud. One of my clients wrote me a message and she's um she was telling me, she says, it's interesting. I feel like I've finally gotten to a place of acceptance of change.
00:05:53
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And how that's the biggest lesson. She's working on a documentary ah film that I was actually in and she's in the middle of the editing process for it. And she says, you know, she's talking about the fact that this whole idea of acceptance and change, it's connected to climate change, it's connected to flow. to ecology and many different aspects. I'll make sure I tell you about it when it comes out because it's, without a doubt, based on everything I know about it, it's going to be amazing. Anyway, she says so she says, it's interesting. I feel like I finally got into a place of acceptance of change and how that's the biggest lesson this documentary has shown me. And also as a major hurricane devastated so many around me. She actually lives in an area that the hurricane passed over. It's hard to see the light in it.
00:06:36
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I know it's part of the Earth system, but how do we accept change when it's so catastrophic and devastating? when do we go Where do we go from here? The damage is done, so it has to be accepted in some form or another at some point. But how do we learn from this? How do we as humans evolve from this?
00:06:55
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And she then she asked me if I saw hurricanes as a spirit, like a cleansing spirit in a way. And you know these are really great questions. These are super great questions. And I would actually even add a few more. I would add, you know we know the planet is always changing, right? So we know that the species that are currently coming into being and going extinct, these are two things that are always happening. Species are being born and species are being lost. But given this,
00:07:24
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My question is, what is the role of humans as a species on our planet, right? Not only how do we evolve, but what does our evolution actually look like? What should it look like? And if you take a step back and you look at the larger picture through that lens, through that lens of your spiritual belief in combination with your ecological knowledge and your understanding of, you know, the Gaia hypothesis and the fact of How the earth is always shifting in order to better adapt to whatever it is that is happening. What are we here to do or to be right so these are are kind of the questions that I'm asking myself right now and I i posted in the naturally conscious community. um The naturally conscious community for those of you that are new around here is my online um platform.
00:08:20
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specifically for, you know, nourishing your plant reawakening. So it's about these types of conversations. It's about working directly with kin for the answers. And I posted that I have yet to um reach out to the plants of the area of any of these areas because I feel like it's it's not the time. It's way too early. I have been trying to work with my plants the plants that are my plant partners here to to really get to a different space, a head space that allows me to feel like I am processing this in a way that allows me to honor my humanness, my my grief, my my fears, my worries. I mean, as I look outside,
00:09:05
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I have a beautiful river that that passes by my house, and I'm staring at it. And the water level is so incredibly low. And you know we're heading into the fall. We're not going to get a replenishment of that water level. and i'm And this is an area that's usually extremely green because there is so much water that flows through it. And at the same time, as I'm looking at this low water level, I'm a little bit thankful because I'm a little bit traumatized by what has just happened and what has come through my home state because I'm originally from Florida. So I'm used to hurricanes. I know hurricanes. I lived through Hurricane Andrew, which was in 1992 and it was catastrophic, you know, category five hurricane where luckily my home was one of what we call it the last of the good construction in Miami at that time.
00:10:00
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because it was built in a really solid foundation really well built so my house had no damage but my my my best friend at the time you know who lived maybe about 15 minutes from my house her house was completely destroyed she had to move in with me while her family rebuilt um i had another you know friend of mine my my my high school boyfriend who lived Also, about 10 minutes away from me and his house, he lost half of his house, just completely disappeared. And you know his family had to rebuild and such. So I understand that type of destruction.
00:10:38
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I don't know why that feels more normalized, probably because Miami is an area that has always had hurricanes pass through it. It has always had to deal with that kind of water. We know sea level is rising. We are at sea level in Miami. So it's kind of like the risk you know. um In some ways, there's a part of me that sort of deals with forest fires. Most forest fires, not all.
00:11:05
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A little bit with that same attitude, which is like we know we're building in an area that is prone to this and therefore it's about trying to figure out how to adapt to the local environment.
00:11:17
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But what's happened right now with this latest hurricane is so out of character that it's such a big indication of the changes that are happening and how rapidly they're going to affect us that it does take you aback. It takes you a minute to process it. i you know i I do sit there and I say to myself, okay, this is our present.
00:11:40
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Do I like that we've gotten there? No. Do I feel like this is way more rapid than it could have been or should have been or whatever words you want to use? Sure. But as you know as my client said, we're here now. And so all we can do is figure out what are our next steps. What is my role as a human being in this, in harmony with the plants, what are we supposed to do? Where are we supposed to go? And I think that that's really the question to ask ourselves, you know, what are the, um, I don't even have really, really great words for you folks. I'm i'm doing my best. Like what I posted in the naturally conscious community was really about the fact that
00:12:31
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this trauma feels so raw right now that i'm I'm still trying to grasp my understanding from an ecosystem perspective. In other words, what is the adaptation, adaptation, excuse me, that the planet was trying to do? What is that hurricane as an entity? What was the hurricane's sort of movement and purpose?
00:12:59
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Where are we going from here? And more importantly, where should we go? That's a big part of it. I was actually really happy to see that there was some news articles that were coming out about some of the major trees or plants lost. And I do think that that's actually quite a beautiful too, in the sense that It's not happening enough, but there's this sort of recognition that not just humans lost everything, but there's lots of plants that, you know, gave their lives in this. And there are many, many different types of beings and organisms that also, you know, from, from animals and insects and, you know, plants, as well as many, many different other species and kingdoms, mushrooms and everything that
00:13:43
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did lose their lives in this. It's not just a human's tragedy. it's It's something that happens across the board. And so with that knowledge and with the knowledge that this is only going to intensify right now, the the acceleration of our planet's change in this lifetime um is is is inevitable, right? We're in it. We're in the middle of it. And one of the things about working with plants that has always given me peace of mind is that aspect of adaptation in the sense that since the very beginning one of the major elements that for me became kind of a beacon as a person who
00:14:28
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It can be very, very practical, but still have like a deep seated fear around certain types of things like death and my approach to certain kinds of situations. One of the things that has always been this big beacon of hope, or how do I say this? This peace inducing feeling is the fact that the more that I reawaken my plantness, the more that I step into myself as a being of nature,
00:14:56
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the more my body can adapt. That doesn't mean accept stuff that I shouldn't be accepting, but adapt in the sense of bring myself into harmony with the environment around me. I used to call myself a chameleon because I have always had this sort of ability to adapt um intellectually as well as behaviorally and culturally to wherever it is that I'm at.
00:15:21
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And I feel like this work with the plants has elevated that also to my physicality from my the way my body reacts to the location, whether it's food, whether it's altitude, whether it's water levels and temperature. I feel how different my body behaves when I'm home here in Damenheim, the first city,
00:15:44
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which is you know in the mountains and colder temperatures then when i go back to my hometown in miami and i'm in the heat like here i struggle with heat in a way that i don't struggle with heat in miami because the heat here is to a certain extent unnatural it's outside of the natural rhythm rhythms of some things and so therefore my body hasn't adjusted to it yet it's still doing that process where instead it's adjusted pretty well to the cold like the temperature that i have in my room right now if i was to be in miami with this exact same temperature i would be freezing cold but here i'm relatively comfortable because again My body adapts to it and it adapts to the types of plants, the the flora that's here, to you know the pollen in the air. like One of the big pieces that I have been working with with the plant world, as you've heard me talk about so many times, is this concept of adaptation.
00:16:41
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emotional as well and spiritual adaptation, but also very much physical adaptation. And as a matter of fact, one of the projects that I'm sort of involved with and i I'm hoping to expand on with a group of of researchers, it's not my project, it's a project I came into to help sort of make connections for people to do my my little plant networking thing and create an ecosystem for it is this idea of this green DNA that we might have and our our reawakening of parts of ourselves of extra senses, which is a big topic that I have been researching for many years, of how do we embody our plantness to enhance different senses of ours, and by enhancing those senses, we're able to then better adapt to our physical environment. And I think that that might be the answer for me. Going back is not a possibility anymore. You know, climate change is constant, and this accelerated
00:17:39
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some would say induced, climate change is here. it's it's we're We're past, I think, the point of thinking that we can't like we're going to be able to completely stop this motion. I do think we have to massively change our behaviors. And I think about that every single day when I look at everything around my house and how do I make sure, you know, that I you know do all the R's before I ever recycle. I want to reuse and I want to restore and I want to do everything so that I am purchasing as little as possible, which I have to do another episode on that because
00:18:17
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As I travel into certain areas where consumerism kind of drives everything but not so much as like doing things but buying things, I find that sometimes I do very little in certain places because I don't want to go shopping. um But that's another story altogether and I'll get there. But anyways, in the perspective of we're going back is not a possibility. All we can do is move forward. Our planet is evolving at a pace that finally we can see.
00:18:43
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Right. Everything is moving so fast that now it becomes part of our human vision, which it hasn't been. It's been outside of our human perception. But as our perceptions also come online and as our ability, as everything starts to accelerate, what was once imperceivable is now aligned to our human perceptions and our access to the media makes it even more visible to have that. So every move that nature makes is like right there in our face in in just a few minutes type of thing. So given that, all i can ah I can really focus on right now I feel for me is
00:19:26
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One of it is education, for sure. I mean, that's a big part of it. And also adaptation. I'm working with my body. I'm working with my field. I'm working with my networks, and especially working with my clients, to see where am I supposed to adapt? Where am I supposed to invest instead not adapt? Where am I supposed to you know resist?
00:19:48
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or push back or all of these types of things. And where instead am I supposed to adapt? Where am I supposed to be working with my senses to enhance certain areas? There is a sunlight that is coming in, and so I should probably look really washed out, but I have to say I'm thankful. I had the windows open when I first started to record because it's a cloudy day. And so I'm like, oh, it'll be fine, and it'll be a nice soft light. Now instead, the sun is peeking through, and I feel like I have this light in my eyes But you know what, that's okay. It's fine. It's what it's going to be. um But what I'm saying is like I feel like like I'm working really hard to x expand my perceptions, ex expand expand my senses um in order to be able to
00:20:35
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more subtly adapt to things in order for my body to be able to take in more water. I found that this summer season, especially here where I live was very, it wasn't wet from the perspective of lots and lots of rain, but I felt more water in the air than I even do when I'm in Miami and the humidity is like 110,000%, I felt my so my clothing wet, my my bed wet at night because the amount of moisture in the air, and I actually did read a study that's saying that that is a true true thing. It's a little bit separate than humidity, but there seems to be a more precipitation that's staying in the air.
00:21:21
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And that's causing um this other kind of feeling. I'm actually found in my my own home, like things because we don't do air conditioning here where I am. So I found things that that somewhat rotted because they were wet. um And so adapting to that, modifying the way that I live as well as the way that I act, but also modifying my own body to be able to breathe better in that is a big part of my work with the plant world.
00:21:49
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understanding how is it that I can learn from all of this ah adaptation. For example, in my house, there's many succulents or cacti or aloes, like different plants that are from very hot climates. I never purchased any of them. They're all rescues. Almost everybody in my house is a rescue, i like who lives with me. And for example, one of the succulents that um lives actually next door, at one point while the person was out of town, when the person came back from being out of town, so we're talking about a person that wasn't even home, so not watering this plant, had been out of out of town for several months, came home and the plant, which was a succulent, had completely fallen over because it's as if it was, as if Q had been over watered.
00:22:38
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And this was from the moisture of the air. That's how strong it was. This moisture caused this plant to keel over from over watering when the plant had not been watered for several months. So that gives you an indication of how much that's changed. So I have been nursing this plant back to health. The plant was not that big, just about that big. And he turned into three little plants because that's what I was able to rescue. And two of them are doing quite well. One I'm looking at right now is Okay, um but there is a little bit of growth, you know, it's succulent. He is a succulent, so he grows very, very slow. But I am working with these plants to better understand why were you not able to adapt to the water? What has is changing? What can I change about myself? And that's something that I'm asking a lot of the, you know,
00:23:29
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of the different ah succulents here how do i deal with this hot climate how have you adapted to the cold right because we are in a place that is cold and sure i have the heaters on during the summer but i don't i mean during the winter but i don't keep the heaters on so high that these plants would be living in the same tropical environment that they're used to. They do get a lot of sun, we have full sun, but you know, and I i have them placed in in locations. But I try to ask these types of questions to sit with the plants in this aspect to test
00:24:02
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my own body's reaction, how can I expand the ability of my body to adapt to what is inevitably changing in the way our planet works? Is it going to happen in one lifetime? Okay, probably not. But I do feel like some things are changing and that is helping me better understand. And that helps me come into a flow with the planet that helps me better understand usually when You know, when tragedy strikes, that does not mean, it also pisses me off when I see, you know, some of the solutions or some of what some entities are doing relating to trying, anyways, I'm not going to get into a rant. I'm trying not to get into a rant. I really want this to be positive because I want this to be something that gives you more tools to dealing with this. I think at some point I will connect in to many of the plants that are
00:25:00
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living through these current situations um or maybe tap into some of the plants that I work with and see if any of them could connect because I think that might be a little bit gentler of an approach. I don't want to do that now. I want to give space and time for the plants to be able to just all them you know for so kin to be able to deal with the aftermath of where where they are. um But I do think I'm going to do that at some point. I'll make sure I share that with you. And in the meantime, I think the best I can do is to really just keep focusing on how do I integrate all of this change into my life? What does my life look like as I fully step into this
00:25:46
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Evolutive process and I I more actively guide it and instead of letting it just sort of guide me Where is it? And this is a big question that I ask myself but also of all my clients and it's one of the things that we work on when we're doing, you know coaching is What is your role in this? Where are you supposed to be going with this? What direction are you as an individual as well as a member of the collective supposed to take this? What are the relationships you need to build?
00:26:19
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with yourself as well as with others and others, I mean other kin, others with an S and a capital O and others of every level, what are the relationships that you need to create in order to fully live the purpose that you have in this life and to continue on on the mission that your soul is taking? Where are you supposed to go and When is it right for you to stop and fight? Because, you know, hey, even plants fight. There are times when plants attack, there are plants that defend, there's fighting that happens in any kind of environment. And there are times when you adapt and understanding how that happens. how do How do you change over time? How does a plant modify their body physically in order to be able to be more um in tune with the climate and the environment that is changing? Because remember, as a plant changes, then the environment changes, and as the environment changes, the plant has to change.
00:27:26
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So there's this constant motion back and forth and this is really the heart of what I you know work on for myself but also with all my clients because in order to be your authentic self, you have to really know who you are today but be completely open to that doubt that I was talking about earlier that you're not supposed to stay that way.
00:27:49
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that or that you you know that you're supposed to ah connect with someone else or you're supposed to instead modify some part of yourself. And we as human beings are not very good at this whole modification thing. This whole adaptation thing is not really a good part of us. We see it as a negative as if you're giving yourself up. But I don't see it as like giving anything up about myself. I see it as how do I expand or evolve into the direction that I'm supposed to be going.
00:28:18
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And I think that that's really what gives me hope. What gives me hope is that the planet is changing, it's moving. And I guess I i do really believe that we as human beings have the ah opportunity to adapt. and And that's why sometimes the conversations around climate change, you'll notice that I don't really use climate change as a terminology or as as um as a talking point very often, not because I don't believe in climate change. I absolutely believe in climate change. I absolutely believe our climate is completely changing. Our planet is changing.
00:28:51
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I at the same time also believe that we need to make modifications as individuals as well as as cultures and societies and companies and all that type of thing is one part of it because there is a piece like I said where we fight where we stop where and another part of it is also adapting because I do think that some parts of these are natural cycles that we have humanly put obstacles in the middle of it's you know we've we've planted ourselves into locations and places and situations that
00:29:28
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it's inevitable that the planet is going to the you know retake that that that space because that's a space that's always belonged to someone else type of thing. So I do think that there's a lot of different discussion points that are happening here, and I'm excited on some of them. I know that that's a really horrible thing to say right now given the tragedy that's happening, but I am excited because I do see more of these conversations happening. I do see a lot more I'm i'm excited with my clients to see how much they're stepping into their own place of education or personal um personal change or you know from a professional or as well as a a personal evolution and how much more authentic they are and therefore the
00:30:20
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the peace, the growth, the change, the ability for you to be a member of your ecosystem with all of these different pieces. It's it's just really exciting. um and And actually on that note, I want to share with you, because these are the types of things that give me hope, I want to share with you one of our eco-conscious business partners that I think really embody the direction that we want to be going. And one of those things that we thought was not possible to do or that we as humans kind of said, no, it's inevitable that we're supposed to do this in a way that harms the planet when there is ways to do it that do not harm the planet.
00:31:01
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00:32:36
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or we can dive into what support you need. We can also talk about it in the naturally conscious community. So on my website, you will find details about all the different things that I have to offer to help you better connect with the plant world and in and of itself, connect with yourself. So if you're looking for ongoing community and also ongoing support, you found it all.
00:33:00
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between me and the naturally conscious community, which is our vibrant online space for deepening, deepening this connection to plant wisdom. So I'd love to see you there. I'd love to connect with you. I'd love to hear about your experience. More than anything, I'd love to walk this path of evolution together because remember, we are a giant worldwide ecosystem. So every change you make, every change I make, every change every person makes affects all of us.
00:33:27
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I think that's it for this episode. I could probably go on for hours on on this topic, but I want to hear your thoughts. So if you enjoyed it, remember to like, and comment, and subscribe, and remember, resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance. That's it for me. See you later. I'm out.
00:33:46
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, intro and outro music by Steve Schulie and Poinsettia from The Singing Life of Plants. So join me, Tigri La Gardenia, and my plant collaborators next time on Reconnect with Plant Wisdom.