How to Use Nature as a Spiritual and Wellness Tool with Jessica Zweig
Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care
Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How many times have you heard someone say "My garden is my therapy" or "Plant care is self-care”? These phrases have become so popular lately, and they're absolutely true! As someone who's written a whole book on this topic, I can tell you that being connected to nature gives us so many gifts: perspective, gratitude, love, and as we'll explore today, reverence and reciprocity. I have a deep-rooted connection with Gaia (or Mother Earth) that I’m gonna share with my equally deeply spiritual friend, Jessica Zweig, business coach and author of ‘The Light Work’. We both have spookily similar experiences moving out of congested cities into nature and seeing the shifts in our systems and lives that have happened. I hope you take something good from this ep!
In this episode, we learn:
- [06:38] Jessica’s evolution of connecting with nature
- [10:41] Moving to the countryside
- [14:40] Unwind and relax with Wind River Chimes
- [16:15] Begin your homesteading life with Simple Country Living by Annette Thurman
- [17:22] How does nature help alleviate our worries?
- [20:36] What is the practice of reciprocity?
- [23:14] What is the frequency of Gaia?
- [26:28] What are the codes of Gaia?
- [30:21] Successfully grow anything with Gardener Supply Company
- [32:17] Meeting the Kichwa Anangu tribe
- [36:45] Where can you find Jessica’s book?
- [38:25] Where can you find Jessica on social media?
Mentioned in our conversation:
- Birds of Tennessee Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides) by Stan Tekiela
- Merlin Bird ID
- Simply Be by Jessica Zweig
- The Light Work by Jessica Zweig
- Comunidad Kichwa Añangu
- Lion’s Gate Activation Summit
For Jessica's nature-based wellness practices,
check out the full show notes and blog here!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How many times have you heard someone say, |
| 0:01.8 | my garden is my therapy or plant care is self care, right? |
| 0:05.0 | They're very popular terms now because they're very true. |
| 0:07.7 | I wrote a whole book on this topic, right, Plant Friends. |
| 0:11.0 | But you don't need to read the studies that I read for my book to understand |
| 0:14.4 | that being connected to nature gives us so many gifts. |
| 0:18.1 | Perspective, gratitude, love, and as our guest would say today, reverence and reciprocity. |
| 0:24.0 | Today's guest, my very special friend, Jessica's Weig, |
| 0:26.4 | and I have had spookily similar experiences |
| 0:29.7 | moving out of congested cities into nature |
| 0:32.3 | and seeing the palpable shifts in our nervous systems and lives |
| 0:35.1 | that have happened due to opening our hearts up to Mother Nature. |
| 0:38.6 | So today we have a gorgeous deep dive into what we've learned. Welcome. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast |
| 0:50.0 | to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast, |
| 0:52.0 | where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants Podcast, |
| 0:52.5 | where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully, |
| 0:55.4 | but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies |
| 0:58.0 | to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of |
| 1:05.0 | Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, |
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