Tending Your Inner Garden

Rachael Wolff is a dynamic, Naples, Florida-based certified transformational life coach, EFT practitioner, Reiki master, and inspiring speaker who understands transformation from the inside out. With over thirty years of experience navigating PTSD, OCD, and ADHD caused by trauma, Rachael brings profound authenticity and compassion to her work. Her unique perspective allows her to connect deeply with others who are seeking hope, healing, and self-awareness.Stay updated at fromalovingplace.com.To most who know her, Kiersten Hathcock is a former TV marketing executive and TEDx speaker turned Shark Tank-winning, self-taught carpenter and designer who built an internationally known kids’ furniture company out of her LA garage. Behind the scenes, however, she privately struggled to survive and heal from childhood sexual abuse and narcissistic abuse while grappling with newfound mediumship abilities that led her to pen her memoir, Little Voices. In addition, Kiersten and retired NYPD Detective Mark Pucci co-founded a nonprofit that helps crime victims and their families. Kiersten currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, Scott, and pup, Scout.

• ForewordIntroductionPart I—The Unmanaged GardenChapter 1—Starting Over: Addressing Our Unkept GardensChapter 2—Nourishing Our Gardens: Stop Focusing on Other PeopleChapter 3—Becoming Aware: Spotting Belief Systems that Foster Unhealthy GrowthPart II—Getting DirtyChapter 4—Dig Deep: Where Are We Still Feeding the Weeds?Chapter 5—Pulling Out the Weeds: If Beliefs Aren’t Healthy, Stop Allowing Them to Grow!Chapter 6—Visualize Magnificence: What Do We Want Our Gardens to Look Like?Part III: Tending Your Inner GardenChapter 7—Do the Work: Our Gardens, Our Responsibility!Chapter 8—Things are Going to Change: Resist It, Accept It, or Embrace It!Chapter 9—Conscious Collective Gardening: Peacefully Living Amongst OthersLet’s Get Tending!AcknowledgementsAbout the Author

“In this book, Rachael Wolff offers us her powerful approach to clear the fear and lack from our lives, once and for all. With her expertise, warm guidance, and new tools, she makes it easy and oh-so-rewarding to reclaim who we truly are and move forward at last.”—Amy B. Scher, bestselling author of How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can“From the moment you start reading Rachael Wolff’s Tending Your Inner Garden, you are wrapped in the warm embrace of her open and honest heart. Rachael digs deep into the dirt to help you discover the root of what has been holding your dreams hostage. Her knowledge, tools, and shared experiences embolden the reader to break free from the shackles of fear, anxiety, self-doubt, and hopelessness. Throughout the book Rachael artfully intertwines the wisdom of nature’s parables awakening us to the beauty of a life filled with strength, joy, love, and gratitude.”—Angela LoMenzo, author of Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women“Rachael Wolff’s self-help book uses an extended metaphor that compares life to a garden. By following her words, readers can overcome their ‘thorns.’ Tending Your Inner Garden offers a blueprint to not only survive but prevail.”—Marlene Wagman-Geller, Author of Women of Means: Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls“Through personal anecdotes, thoughtful information, and practical exercises, Wolff shows us how to connect to the love, abundance, beauty, and peace that are within each of us, so we can find it in the world around us too. This book is the nourishment we need to grow through these changing times.”—Polly Campbell, Author of You, Recharged: How to Beat Fatigue (Mostly), Amp Up Your Energy (Usually), and Enjoy Life Again (Always), and the host of the Polly Campbell, Simply Said podcast“How does your garden grow? In Tending Your Inner Garden, Rachael Wolff uses a garden as the perfect metaphor for our lives. Her descriptions of each step in planting, cultivating, fertilizing, weeding, and celebrating the blossoming of our Love and care are an instruction manual for living a life of Love, Peace, and Abundance.”—Susyn Reeve, author of Heart Healing“In Tending Your Inner Garden, I love how Rachael breaks down in detail how to cultivate our own gardens into becoming a beautiful manifestation of what we most want our lives to be. Each of us is responsible for our own garden and how lush or barren we make it. Rachael shares simple yet powerful ways on how to clean up our gardens so we can manifest the abundant garden that is our life. ‘I am the butterfly, and this is my garden.’”—Melisa Caprio, popular radio host/podcaster and author of Postcards to the Universe, Harness the Universe’s Power and Manifest your Dreams“Imagine if you could buy a packet of magical seeds that when planted would change your life. They’d help you feel more peaceful, more aligned with your values, healthier, and more whole. Imagine if these seeds could help you create an inner (and outer) life that feels as beautiful and life-affirming as a colorful, thriving garden. You are holding that packet in your hands right now! Rachael Wolff’s book, Tending Your Inner Garden, contains countless seeds of wisdom, thought-provoking questions, inspiring stories, and action items that will help you grow into exactly who you want to be.”—Sherry Richert Belul, author of Say it Now and Love LIst of a Lifetime and the founder of Simply Celebrate“With compassionate been-there-done-that honesty, Rachael Wolff offers readers a wealth of ways to weed, cultivate, nurture, and enjoy their inner gardens. Tending Your Inner Garden is brimming with an abundance of wise insights and practical suggestions for creating lush, lovely, and life-enhancing inner landscapes.”—Sue Patton-Thoele, author of The Courage To Be Yourself and How to Stay Upbeat in a Beat Down World“Look at your life. Are you pleased with it? If not, this wise and wonderful book, will help you manifest the life you want by providing tools, tips and techniques for a happier, healthier and more harmonious one. And, it does so in a fun and most unusual way.”–Allen Klein, author of You Can’t Ruin My Day