We are always gardening whether we realize it or not.
Right now, you’re cultivating something in your relationships – maybe the easy connection you want, maybe the distance you don’t. You’re growing patterns in how you respond when life gets overwhelming – perhaps the calm clarity you’re after, perhaps the reactive spiral you wish would stop. You’re watering something in how you treat yourself when things go wrong.
You’re not broken. You’re working with a garden that reflects complex influences – some from your choices, some from relationships and experiences, some from systems and circumstances that shaped you long before you had any say.
What if you could tend this garden more intentionally?
I’m Tracy Riley, a registered psychologist who focuses on something fundamental: the conditions that determine what grows.
When you understand these conditions, you have a framework for actively working with what you can influence. You also begin to recognize that you’re already influencing constantly such as through your attention, your responses, and your way of being. The self-criticism that seemed permanent becomes something you can tend differently. Your responses to stress and challenges become areas where you can move more intentionally in directions you want to go.
You learn to garden intentionally and recognize the influence you already have.
Ready to understand what you’re cultivating and how you are influencing?
Sessions available in-person near Sydenham, Ontario or virtually across multiple provinces.
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