Living with Intention
Embracing intentional living means making mindful choices that nurture growth, balance, and reflection in everyday life.
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Embracing December’s Garden Stillness
The garden is still in mid-winter. We use this time to review what went well, what we want to repeat next year, and what new gardening, and life, strategies we’d like to try.
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Embracing Liminal Spaces: Toads as Garden Guides
Garden toads arrive as the soil warms and spring begins to bring life back to the garden. Read about toads as messengers from the in-between places in the garden, and in life.
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Inner Transformation: Embracing Winter Changes
In winter, the garden’s growth focuses on building and caring for the plants’ roots, which will store and provide nourishment for spring growth. Similarly, winter provides us an opportunity to do the inside work…
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Garden of Intentions: Cultivating Growth in the Coming Year
This January, don’t set goals that are unattainable. Identify your intentions for the coming year, then do the next small step that moves you forward.
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Embracing Chaos Gardening: Lessons from Year Two
In our lives, as in our gardens, sometimes the results don’t turn out as we planned – but they teach us important lessons to improve our efforts going forward. My chaos gardening experiment has…
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Reflecting on January’s Full Moon: Awakening Your Inner Spark
The Full Wolf Moon illuminates the part of you that is ready to speak again. Use today’s reflection to identify that spark and how to care for it into the new year.
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Lemon-Avocado Oil Quickbread Recipe
Combine whole lemons, avocado oil and pantry staples to create this sunshine-y, lemony quick bread.
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January’s Portal: Looking Back and Forward
January is a portal between what was in the past and what is soon to come. As we reflect on the lessons from the darkness, we begin to turn toward the coming light.
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The Sacred Cycle of Yule: Reflection, Renewal, and Completion
ith the lengthening days, we prepare for the natural world to return to life again. Likewise, it is our hope, here at The Garden Way, that you, too, are hearing that small voice of…
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Creating Joy and Delight for the New Year (Yule, Night 11)
Whether you plan to celebrate the incoming New Year in quiet solitude, with close friends or family, or in the company of a multitude, may your 11th Night of Yule be full of joy…