In this conversation with eco-therapist and author Clara Schroeder, we explore what happens when you stop trying to “fix” nature and start remembering you are nature. We talk about everyday, practical ways to reconnect—whether you’re in a forest, a city park, or standing by your kitchen windowsill with a houseplant. If you’ve felt anxious, lonely, or creatively flat, this episode offers a grounded path back to belonging and resilience.

You’ll gain: clarity on why disconnection feels so heavy, gentle practices to re-attune your senses, and a new perspective on letting Nature co-guide your life.

What You’ll Learn About Nature Therapy for Anxiety
🌱 Ecotherapy 101: invite the land to co-lead your healing (even in cities).
🌱 Micro-rituals that work: breath, morning beverage gratitude, and “place-based” noticing.
🌱 Houseplants as teachers of adaptation, reciprocity, and rhythm.
🌱 Community matters: we’re not meant to do this alone.

✨ Resources ✨
🌱 Expanded Show Notes
🌱 Clara’s book: Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better
🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — discussions, classes, live events
🌱 Sprouts Writing & Creativity Group
🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club

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Cities don’t have to fight nature—they can breathe with it.

In this conversation with artist–ecologist Josh Harrison, we explore cities as living ecosystems: cooling with plants, capturing stormwater, and designing with indigenous stewardship in mind.

We go beyond “green decor” to talk symbiogenesis, circular materials, and what shifts when we remember: I am nature, and I have a role to play.

You’ll leave with fresh language, grounded examples, and a clearer sense of how to tend your place—on the street you live.

What You’ll Learn About Ecoliving & Urban Ecology
🌱 Why urban rewilding works: evapotranspiration, shade, and soil as climate tech
🌱 How indigenous fire and tending create resilience (not chaos)
🌱 A practical look at green roofs, bioswales, and circular materials (upcycled “soil”)
🌱 The mindset reframe from “humans vs. nature” to “we are nature”

✨ Resources ✨
🌱 Expanded Show Notes
🌱 Leaf Island (green roof & circular soil innovation)
🌱 Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild

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What if wildness is our DEEPEST intelligence?

In this solo episode, I explore how plants model adaptive, root-deep wisdom—and how you can rewild your inner landscape without burning your life down. We’ll move from self-containment to flow, learn to read openings like a plant reads light, and create the conditions (soil, water, community) your authentic expression needs to thrive.

You’ll leave with a grounded way to notice where your gifts want to grow now, plus simple practices to partner with a plant ally and build a living ecosystem that supports your next evolution.

What You’ll Learn About Being Yourself and Personal Growth
🌱 Wildness = adaptability: respond to change without losing your essence.
🌱 Flow over containment: grow toward light, set living membranes (not rigid walls).
🌱 Prepare the ground: design conditions—time, space, community—so your gifts can root.
🌱 Partner with a plant ally to mirror your wild intelligence in daily life.

✨ Resources ✨
🌱 Expanded Show Notes
🌱 Reconnect with Plant Kin (monthly workshop) — last Saturday each month
🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (Blooming/Flourishing Sprouts)
🌱 Root to Rise discovery call
🌱 Episode 74 (living membranes vs rigid boundaries)
🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club & Plant-Inspired Masterclass

✨ Chapters ✨
00:00 Introduction
08:15 Path & context
18:04 Ad: Zencastr
26:40 Defining wildness
34:50 Guiding your wild self
43:08 Cattail lesson
51:27 Practice & next steps

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What if stories of monsters could help us see climate change in a new light?

In this conversation with fantasy author Laurel Colless, we explore her magical eco-fiction series that uses imagination, environmental awareness, and the voices of nature spirits to help children (and us adults!) reconnect with the living world.

You’ll discover how fantasy can carry truth, how “nature spirits gone rogue” reveal our own relationship with consumption, and why nurturing imagination is essential for the next generation.

What You’ll Learn About Eco Fantasy Fiction for Climate Awareness
🌱 Why fantasy fiction is a powerful way to tell climate truths
🌱 How monsters reflect human choices and ecological imbalance
🌱 The role of plant communication and “tree speakers” in reimagining connection
🌱 Why fostering imagination is essential for hope and resilience

✨ Resources ✨
🌱 Expanded Show Notes
🌱 Laurel Colless book series (Eye of the Storm Lord, Renegale Tales, Knights Unite)
🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (courses, discussions, events)
🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club

👤 Guest Spotlight: Laurel Colless, Children's Author → laurelcolless.com

Australian-New Zealander children’s author Laurel Colless grew up with books as her friends. Always a fan of adventure stories with twists, Laurel reverts to her eleven-year-old self when writing the Peter Blue books, a science fantasy series where a group of friends at an eco-school solve big world problems and battle evil climate demons birthed from human garbage dumps.

A literary-comparatist by education, Laurel spent 25 years working in environmental business and journalism in Asia, the US and Europe, before coming back to writing. She is the founder of the Carbon Busters Club, a kids’ climate-science program that combines storytelling with science education. In 2013, Laurel Colless became an Al Gore Climate Reality Leader.

When Laurel is not writing or busting carbon, she likes reading, watching movies, forest walking with her dog (and sometimes even her cat!) and spending time with her teenage daughters. Laurel now makes her home in Helsinki with her Finnish husband, their two daughters, a wiry-haired dachshund and a rescue cat.

✨ Chapters ✨
00:00 Introduction
08:10 Essential Nature & Belief
16:30 Plasticity & Acceptance
24:45 Self-Awareness Tools
32:55 Natural Rhythms
40:17 Ad: Music of Plants
49:30 Plant Types & Self-Quiz
57:30 Closing & Community

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What if living authentically was as natural as a plant growing in its right soil? In this episode, I sit down with therapist and podcaster Mary Rothwell to explore what plants can teach us about self-acceptance, adaptation, and finding your true nature.

What You’ll Learn
🌱 Why every plant—and every person—has an essential nature.
🌱 How to reframe limiting beliefs as “bodyguards” you can befriend and release.
🌱 Why authenticity means honoring your cycles, not constant blooming.
🌱 How therapy + coaching can complement each other in reclaiming your true self.

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🌱 Mary Rothwell’s podcast: No Shrinking Violets
🌱 Mary’s Live Like a Plant quiz

👤 Guest Spotlight: Mary Rothwell of Mary Rothwell Integrative Wellness

Mary Rothwell is a licensed therapist, certified integrative mental health practitioner, and certified forest therapy practitioner. With 35+ years of experience, she combines traditional therapy with a holistic, whole-body framework rooted in nature. She coaches women on sleep and wellbeing in menopause, and hosts the podcast No Shrinking Violets. Her upcoming book, Live Like a Plant, and her interactive quiz help women rediscover their essential nature, break free from limiting narratives, and take up the space they were born to inhabit.

Learn more about Mary’s work

✨ Chapters ✨
00:00 Introduction
08:10 Essential Nature & Belief
16:30 Plasticity & Acceptance
24:45 Self-Awareness Tools
32:55 Natural Rhythms
40:17 Ad: Music of Plants
49:30 Plant Types & Self-Quiz
57:30 Closing & Community

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What if everything you’ve been told about food and farming is a myth?

In this conversation with author and journalist Elspeth Hay, we unravel the “No Farms, No Food” narrative and explore how humans can reclaim our place in the ecosystem. From the overlooked nourishment of acorns and chestnuts to the history of colonization and lost commons, this episode reframes humans as keystone species—ecosystem engineers with a vital role to play in regeneration.

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🌱 Feed Us With Trees by Elspeth Hay

What You’ll Learn
🌱 Why the “No Farms, No Food” story is rooted in colonial trauma
🌱 How tree foods like acorns and chestnuts can transform food systems
🌱 Why humans are meant to be ecosystem engineers—like beavers and oaks
🌱 How to begin rediscovering your role in your local ecosystem

👤 Guest Spotlight: Elspeth Hay
Elspeth Hay is a journalist, radio producer, gardener, and author of Feed Us With Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Living on Cape Cod, she explores regenerative food systems and how humans can rebuild lost relationships with keystone species like oak. Her work reframes food not as extraction, but as collaboration with the ecosystems that sustain us.

Learn more about Elspeth’s work

✨ Chapters ✨
00:00 Introduction
08:06 Origins of the “No Farm” Narrative
16:19 Historical Shifts in Food Systems
24:48 Modern Challenges in Agriculture
32:53 Community and Local Food Connections
41:04 Cultural Stories About Farming
49:10 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Roles
57:10 Closing Reflections
59:43 Get Feed Us with Trees

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When Sarah Russo and I sat down, we knew we were going deep—and we did. Together we explored her graphic novel Herbs for the Apocalypse, a raw and powerful work that blends science, punk aesthetics, and plant wisdom into a call for revolution.

We talked about what happens when plants with great power meet human fear, about how creativity becomes a collaboration with our green allies, and about the beauty of sacrifice as plants show us daily.

This conversation isn’t just about herbs or apocalyptic futures—it’s about resilience, resistance, and reimagining our relationship with plants as kin and co-conspirators.

This is a provocative exploration of what it means to listen, to co-create, and to allow plants to challenge our assumptions about beauty, power, and survival.

Topics Covered about The Apocolypse & Revolution
➡️ The creative process behind Herbs for the Apocalypse as a plant-human collaboration.
➡️ How plants embody sacrifice and resilience, modeling true revolution.
➡️ The tension between criminalizing powerful plants and learning from them.
➡️ Why plant communication expands far beyond science into lived, creative experience.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
08:02 Bridging Science and Spirit
16:09 Translating Plant Intelligence
24:35 Redefining Identity
32:36 Plant Rituals & Initiation
40:42 Personal Risks & Sacrifices

Resources Mentioned
🌱 Herbs for the Apocalypse (Sarah Russo’s graphic novel)
🌱 Naturally Conscious Community
🌱 The Final Herb of the Apocalypse
🌱 HFTA Short Film

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I sit down with regenerative garden designer and landscape architect Matthew Mehuys to rethink what a “garden” actually is. We move past domination language and into relationship—how to design living spaces where humans, plants, soil, fungi, and wildlife co-create. We unpack low-maintenance (read: ecosystem-literate) design, right plant/right place, and succession as the real secret to beauty with ease.

We also touch garden history (from walled formality to naturalistic planting), why suburbs can be biodiversity hotspots, and how companies benefit when biophilic spaces nurture people, not just property values. If you’ve ever felt the tension between aesthetics and aliveness, this one will shift your vocabulary—and your planting plan.

Topics Covered about Regenerative Garden Design
➡️ Design as relationship: from “controlling Nature” to co-creating with plant kin
➡️ The true path to low maintenance: soil health, succession, and species fit
➡️ Urban and corporate spaces that invite touch, awe, and ongoing interaction
➡️ How language shapes design choices—and client outcomes

Chapters
00:00 Exploring the Garden as Co-Creation
08:19 The Art of Listening Below Ground
16:37 Microbial Kinship and Nonlinear Growth
25:06 Letting Nature Take the Lead
28:01 Podcast with Zencastr (Ad)
33:21 Interspecies Dialogue
41:44 Reclaiming Wonder in the Garden

Resources Mentioned
🌱 Matthew’s Regenerative Garden online masterclass + free 30-min training/call
🌱 Matthew’s book: 12 Universal Laws of Nature
🌱 Naturally Conscious Community
🌱 My Friday Plant Consciousness Commentary series

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