ReConnect with Plant Wisdom

Discover what living consciously truly means — beyond theory and into daily rhythm, conscious leadership, and relationship with nature.In this expansive and grounding conversation with Roxanne Chaput, we explore how intuition, reciprocity, and multidimensional awareness shape the way we live, lead, and create. From corporate spaces to spiritual embodiment, this dialogue invites you to reimagine what it means to exist in integrity with your true nature.Hosted by Tigrilla Gardenia, Nature-Inspired Mentor and founder of the Naturally Conscious Community, Reconnect with Plant Wisdom explores ecosystem intelligence, plant communication, and conscious evolution through conversations that bridge science, spirit, and lived experience.✨ Ready to move from awareness to embodiment?Join the Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — a global space where ideas like these become living practices.What You’ll Learn About Conscious Leadership & Nature-Based Living🌿 Harmonize intuition and logic to lead consciously🌿 Embody multidimensional awareness in work and life🌿 Recognize truth as relational — and expand your collaboration with others🌿 Reclaim your connection to land, ancestry, and kin through ecosystem practices✨ Resources🌱 Expanded Show Notes🌱 Join the Naturally Conscious Community🌱 Explore Roxanne’s retreats👤 Guest Spotlight: Roxanne ChaputRoxanne Chaput is a globally renowned modern-day embodied Creatrix Oracle, known for her revolutionary intensional path-cutting for conscious creators, change agents, and disruptive embodied heart leaders. Her work supports the anchoring of primordial, creational, god-sovereign liberty — guiding humanity back to reunification with the sacred passages of land that sustain, provide, and nurture through the elemental kingdoms of creation.Through her retreats and teachings at The Illumination Retreat, Roxanne helps others awaken their multidimensionality, integrate ancestral wisdom, and lead from the heart with integrity, consciousness, and reciprocity.🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What happens when activism, ecology, and art merge into one radical act of remembrance?In this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, I sit down with playwright, author, and eco-feminist Karen Malpede to explore how theater becomes a living witness to humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. Together, we dive into the roots of eco-feminism, radical creativity, conscious death, and what it truly means to embody change.Through her decades of work—intertwining ritual, activism, and performance—Karen reveals how storytelling can reawaken our ecological memory and call us back into relationship with Earth.If you’ve ever wondered how art can transform consciousness or how to live in rhythm with the cycles of creation and loss, this episode will move you deeply.What You’ll Learn About Eco-Feminism & Art🌱 How eco-feminism bridges activism, art, and embodied awareness🌱 The power of theater as witness, not protest🌱 Why slowing down time can change perception and restore connection🌱 How creative expression mirrors ecological regeneration✨ Resources ✨🌱 Expanded Show Notes🌱 Karen Malpede’s memoir Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Ripe Deaths (Vine Leaves Press)🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — Join the Ecosystem)👤 Guest Spotlight 👤Karen Malpede is a groundbreaking playwright, director, and author whose work spans more than six decades at the forefront of political and ecofeminist theater. Her upcoming memoir, Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths (Vine Leaves Press, October 2025), is a powerful reflection on love, loss, and the enduring role of art in times of grief and transformation. Karen brings a rare and resonant voice to conversations about creativity, legacy, and the human spirit.🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

What if every meal could become a conversation with nature? In this episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom, I sit down with holistic transformation guide Christine Ruch to explore how food becomes a living bridge between body, spirit, and ecosystem. Christine shares her deeply personal journey from multiple sclerosis diagnosis to full vitality through a radical reconnection with plants—not just as nutrients, but as teachers of self-healing.Together, we reimagine eating as a form of co-creation, where plants and animals express their fullest intelligence through us. You’ll hear how nature’s rhythms, ancestral memory, and intuitive listening can guide not only what you eat, but how you live.What You’ll Learn About Conscious Eating and Self-Healing🌱 How to rebuild trust in your body’s innate intelligence.🌱 Why food isn’t a resource—it’s a relationship.🌱 What plants teach us about healing through cooperation, not control.🌱 How honoring seasonality and cycles leads to sustainable well-being.✨ Resources ✨🌱 Expanded Show Notes🌱 Christine Rook’s Substack: The Fresh Life🌱 Holistic Transformation Guide🌱 Naturally Conscious Community (NCC) — Join the Ecosystem)👤 Guest Spotlight 👤Christine Ruch is a Holistic Transformation Guide who helps women with Multiple Sclerosis reconnect to their body’s innate wisdom and healing potential. After 20 years healing her own MS naturally through whole food nutrition, nervous system restoration, spiritual practice, plant medicine, deep self-inquiry, and both Eastern and Western modalities, Christine now guides others on their own transformative path. Bridging science and soul, she offers tools to move beyond symptom management into lasting inner healing—sharing insight, hope, and grounded practices for listeners ready to reclaim their health from the inside out.🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

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🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

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🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

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 Introduction08:15 Path & context18:04 Ad: Zencastr26:40 Defining wildness34:50 Guiding your wild self43:08 Cattail lesson51:27 Practice & next steps🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

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.comAustralian-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 Introduction08:10 Essential Nature & Belief16:30 Plasticity & Acceptance24:45 Self-Awareness Tools32:55 Natural Rhythms40:17 Ad: Music of Plants49:30 Plant Types & Self-Quiz57:30 Closing & Community🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

Mary Rothwell, a licensed therapist and certified forest therapy practitioner, shares her insights on authenticity and self-acceptance. She explores how everyone, like plants, has an essential nature that guides their growth. The conversation highlights the importance of reframing limiting beliefs and embracing natural cycles of rest. Mary emphasizes blending therapy and coaching for holistic healing and how reconnecting with nature can enhance well-being. Listeners learn valuable strategies to adapt and thrive, reflecting on their innate traits.

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.✨ Listen + Resources ✨🌱 Expanded Show Notes🌱 Join the Naturally Conscious Community🌱 Feed Us With Trees by Elspeth HayWhat 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 HayElspeth 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 Introduction08:06 Origins of the “No Farm” Narrative16:19 Historical Shifts in Food Systems24:48 Modern Challenges in Agriculture32:53 Community and Local Food Connections41:04 Cultural Stories About Farming49:10 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Roles57:10 Closing Reflections59:43 Get Feed Us with Trees🔗 Connect & Explore More🌿 Website🌿 Contact🌿 Shop Eco-Conscious PartnersSocials📸 Instagram📘 Facebook💼 LinkedIn▶️ YouTube🎵 CreditsOpening + Closing music by @Cyberinga and Poinsettia

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.Chapters00:00 Introduction08:02 Bridging Science and Spirit16:09 Translating Plant Intelligence24:35 Redefining Identity  32:36 Plant Rituals & Initiation  40:42 Personal Risks & SacrificesResources Mentioned 🌱 Herbs for the Apocalypse (Sarah Russo’s graphic novel)🌱 Naturally Conscious Community🌱 The Final Herb of the Apocalypse🌱 HFTA Short FilmExpanded Show Notes ☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //    // Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Herbs of the Apocalypse More PartnersOpening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube