What gardening's taught me about creativity and success
I didn't used to understand weeding – like just let the plants grow, right!? Not to mention there are so many beneficial medicinal plants maligned as "just weeds."
Since I've been volunteering at the medicinal herb garden at the community farm, 80% of what we do is weed. If there are plants you'd like to see grow but weeds are taking over the bed, they are using nutrients, resources and physical space your plants need to grow.
When I sat down to write this morning it dawned on me that 80% of my creative and business process is also weeding. Plucking out the mental weeds as close to the root as possible so creativity, possibility and hope has more space to thrive.
This is often what we're doing in coaching too – grasping the doubt, fear and unworthiness by the roots so your dreams and desires don't have to jostle through the fear, wither under the shade of self-doubt and get strangled by unworthiness.
Every weed is different, so too is every person.
Some weeds just need a firm grasping by the root and are gone for good long time, but many others do grow back and need regular tending, for others yet the roots have grown quite deep and will never be fully out so we learn to trim them back and not let them strangle your hopes and dreams.
Some people are more or less practiced at weeding. Some forget to do it and the garden needs a lot of work! Some honestly don't have the energy to do it on their own that's basically all we have space to do in each session. Some need to see me more frequently or for longer. Some just love feeling cared for and secure knowing they have space with me every month to tend the garden.
Put your gloves on and let's get to work!
Alyssa Tennant
Helping smart, successful women who are exhausted and unsatisfied with their lives feel alive, full of energy and excited about life.
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