MASTER GARDENER

9/11/2025

One of the things that stands out to me about growing up on Washington Boulevard in Indianapolis, Indiana is the garden that framed our home. There were always a plethora of glorious vegetables and flowers.

My dad was the main gardener. And my mom, the main harvester.

Later in their lives, mom and dad decided to get their Master Gardener certification. My mom was the one who actually took the exam and passed. On paper, she was a certified Master Gardener.

My dad, however, never took the final exam. He did not get that piece of paper that certified him as a Master Gardener.

He did not need it. He was and had always been a natural Master Gardener.

About 11 years ago, a dear friend at the time said to me that I was like a gardener, watering other people’s lives with my energy.

His statement struck me hard. And probably not in the way that he had intended. I saw that he was right. I came when called, ready and willing to cultivate other people’s lives on command.

This awareness did not feel good. In the blink of an eye I saw how I had been self-abandoning in order to feel loved, seen and worthy.

In that moment I started to reclaim my energy, the life-force that is me. As I got better at this, my self care become not one thing, but everything.

This was not easy. In order to come into the wholeness of me, what I call the Soul, I had to acknowledge the feelings of abandonment that I had been avoiding.

Unlike my mom, I do not have a Master Gardner certificate. But like my dad, I am a natural Master Gardner.

I am the Master Gardner of my Soul.

Through the experience of these last many years, I know now that by being me, I am all that I need and I am all that everyone else needs too. They are the same thing.

If this resonates with you, know that, energetically, we are in a time that is completely supportive of pausing, releasing and beginning anew.

Only you can honor this for you.

And I’m HERE FOR IT.

xoxoxoxo