For a while I hosted a podcast chatting with women about their relationship with their garden and how it impacted their wellbeing and life. I absolutely loved having these conversations and was delighted with how they started with the garden and travelled through a world of other subjects that matter to women.
They demonstrated beautifully the metaphor that we are our gardens and our gardens are us and serve to inspire and support us to make more of our relationship with our garden, and the natural world.
Now that I’m focusing more on coaching rather than gardens I’m plotting another podcast. So please watch this space!
“What a delightful listen this is and how interesting to see how the conversation flows on from and in relation to the garden. I could personally relate to much of what Clare said and felt and it brought a little tear to my eye in a good way. ”
“Listening to your podcast brings me so much joy, calmness and makes me enjoy my garden much more. Suddenly all ‘these things behind gardening’ just make so much sense.”
Claire Branigan, of InTune Wellbeing is a heart-centred wellbeing coach sharing her love of mindfulness and forest bathing to help women live in authentic alignment with themselves.
We talk about forest bathing, women’s wellbeing in the middle years, Claire’s relationship with her garden and what it was like working with me to create a new design layout as well as about garden vintage as Claire used to run an emporium, full of gorgeous garden stuff, called Mabel and Rose.
Read MoreSarah Layton of Growthfully chats with Sara Venn, horticulturalist, activist, writer and founder of Incredible Edible Bristol about supporting grass roots groups to get growing in Bristol, what inspires her about her work, how she became passionate about gardening and helping those less fortunate and who influenced her. We discuss her garden and its wildlife and much more.
Read MoreSarah Layton, of Growthfully, talks with author of The Empowered Entrepreneur, Elizabeth Cairns about the ways in which she is inspired and supported by her relationship with nature and trees in particular,
The conversation flowed around the connection between nature and wellbeing and we discussed Elizabeth’s relationship with her own garden, how her buddhist practice informs it and the ways in which we can harness nature to support and nurture us.
Elizabeth’s statement that ‘nature is always resilient and we are not separate from that’ seems particularly resonant right now.
Read MoreSarah Layton, of Growthfully, talks with award winning garden designer, Melissa Jolly. We discuss how her relationship with the land, nature and wildlife inform Melissa's work and self-care as well as about motherhood and career challenges, perfectionism/good enough, going with the flow and, actually, much more.
Read MoreFiona Barrows is an inspiring mentor, writer and podcaster living in Frome who seeks to live and work in a way that feels authentic and to support her clients to do the same. She is passionate about her allotment, running, reading, living sustainably, baking and more.
Read MoreClare Yarwood- White is a writer who uses her ability to weave words and tell stories to help her clients tell their brand story elegantly and well. She lives in Surrey in a very interesting garden which is where this conversation starts.
These conversations start with the garden but travel to a world of different subjects that matter. We discuss plants and gardens of course but also personal space, feminism, body image, perfectionism, nature, social history, things psychological and more.
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