Caregiving can feel like you’re always pushing: forcing your body to keep going, forcing your mind to stay on top of appointments, forcing yourself to be “okay” when you’re anything but.

What if your next layer of resilience didn’t come from trying harder, but from remembering you’re part of nature – and letting yourself move more like a forest than a factory?

In this Radiant Moments conversation, Michelle is joined by Tigrilla Gardenia – nature‑inspired mentor, certified life coach and plant‑wisdom guide – to explore how the intelligence of plants and ecosystems can help caregivers stop forcing, start flowing, and live closer to their true rhythms.

Drawing on music engineering, Cirque du Soleil, plant neurobiology and life inside the eco‑spiritual community of Damanhur, Tigrilla offers a surprising, grounded pathway back to presence, creativity and nervous‑system calm.

Inside This Episode

• Reawakening Our “Inner Plantness”
• Breaking Exhausting Cycles by Thinking in Ecosystems
• Personal Growth Through Plant‑Inspired Relationships
• Healing Journeys & Limiting Beliefs
• Plant‑Composed Music & the Nervous System
• One‑Minute Daily Practices for Caregivers
  Most importantly, Tigrilla brings everything back to simple, doable steps:
  • choosing one plant (a houseplant, a tree by the car park, the grass outside your door)
  • spending one intentional minute a day with it, using your senses – looking closely, touching leaves or soil, feeling grass under your feet, sharing a few honest breaths
  • letting that relationship become a tiny daily reset where you are not just a role, but a living being in community with other living beings

Weekly Caregiver Invitation

This week:

1. Pick one plant ally – a pot plant, a tree, a strip of grass.

2. Spend one intentional minute with it each day, using sight, touch or breath.

3. Ask gently: Where am I forcing? Where could I flow more like this plant or ecosystem?

You don’t need to become a gardener. You’re simply remembering you belong to nature, too.

Connect with Tigrilla Gardenia:

• Website: https://tigrillagardenia.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tigrillagardenia
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tigrillagardenia
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@tigrillagardenia
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tigrillagardenia

Caregiver Resources:

• Radiant Moments: https://jandbinspired.com/radiant-moments-podcast
• 90 Second Reset Program: https://jandbinspired.com/90-second-reset-program
• Oasis Membership Waitlist: https://jandbinspired.com/founding-member

Connect with J and B Inspired:

• Website: https://jandbinspired.com/
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/@JandBInspired
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jandbinspired/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jandbinspired/

Music by Konstantin Garbuzyuk (via Uppbeat)

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