From a Loving Place with Author Rachael Wolff

About From a Loving Place with Author Rachael Wolff

From A Loving Place with Rachael Wolff is a podcast about making choices to live life from a loving place. The topics challenge us to do better without blaming or shaming. From a Loving Place is simply about being more conscious of the choices we are making on a moment to moment basis that affect our lives and our relationships with others. Our perspectives are our power or our prison. We can't change anyone else, but we can be examples of the changes we want to see by simply tending to our own inner gardens. fromalovingplace.substack.com (https://fromalovingplace.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Rachael Wolff

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2022

Latest episode

17 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

164 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jun 2026

   I’m Only Ever Somewhere Until I’m Not Supposed to Be There Anymore

   There are plenty of perspectives on how to approach uncertainty, and this is one I planted in my garden decades ago. Today, it’s one of the most beautiful flowering trees in my inner garden. I’ve gone through a lot of trauma in my life, and I have endless stories I could dive into that would keep me stuck. I also have stories that help me move forward. How I process my past is my choice. How you process yours is your choice. There is no right or wrong way to do it, but I do think honesty matters. Are the stories and beliefs we’re feeding helping the beautiful plant life grow in our inner gardens, or are they feeding the weeds? I’m only ever somewhere until I’m not supposed to be there anymore has become one of my reminders that fighting reality is a losing battle. Why not embrace it instead? “When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time.” — Byron Katie I’ve applied this perspective to all areas of my life: I’m supposed to live here, until I don’t. I’m supposed to be in this relationship, until I’m not. I’m supposed to work here, until I don’t. I’m supposed to have use of my senses, until I don’t. I’m supposed to be in this friendship, until I’m not. I’m supposed to have this amount of money, until I don’t. I’m supposed to be healthy, until I’m not. I’m supposed to live, until I don’t. Our personal stories can take these statements in countless directions, but for me, they pull me out of the story altogether. They remind me to keep taking the next step toward love, abundance, and peace. The rest works itself out whether I’m fighting reality or not. Of course, I still find myself worrying sometimes. I can let old stories take over and create stress, fear, and endless “what ifs.” When that happens, I usually discover I’ve been feeding weeds. Worry is just weeds spreading through our gardens. Whether we’re worrying about ourselves or someone we love, we’re still planting seeds from the energy of fear, lack, and separation. I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent plenty of time on that worry hamster wheel. It has never taken me anywhere worth going. Mostly, it leaves me exhausted. I’d rather find a different way to exercise my mind. Believing that I’m where I’m supposed to be until I’m not, doesn’t stop me from making healthier choices. In fact, I find it easier to move in a healthy direction when I’m not carrying the weight of constant worry. When I’m doing the work of aligning my energy with love, abundance, and peace, my decisions become clearer. My mind becomes quieter. My next step becomes easier to see. And right now, that’s where I am—until I’m not. Even that thought takes the pressure off. Just because I’m in a good headspace today doesn’t mean it’s meant to be permanent—and that’s okay. I don’t have to beat myself up for not being somewhere I think I should be. I’m tired of carrying that burden. Instead, I remind myself that I’m where I’m supposed to be, learning what I’m supposed to learn, growing how I’m supposed to grow, and being who I’m supposed to be in this moment. The rest will unfold as I keep tending my garden and trusting the process. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fromalovingplace.substack.com (https://fromalovingplace.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   14 Jun 2026

   Breaking Down to Breakthrough

   When I was seventeen, I struggled with severe depression, suicidal ideations, attempted suicide, and was diagnosed with PTSD. That’s just a snapshot. I could send myself into a tailspin within seconds. The darkness became so overwhelming that I eventually agreed to admit myself into a hospital for help. At the time, I believed things would only get worse. I couldn’t imagine a future filled with hope, peace, or joy. Looking back now, this was a period of my life that I’m surprised I survived. What I didn’t understand then was that I wasn’t at the end of my story. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I was standing in a garden that desperately needed tending. Back then, I thought my breakdowns meant something was wrong with me. I did everything I could to avoid them. I wanted to outrun the sadness, distract myself from the pain, and pretend everything was okay. Eventually, life taught me something different. A breakdown isn’t a bottom. It’s the turning of the soil before new growth can emerge and breakthrough to become a beautiful flower. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is to embrace the breakdown. Not because it’s comfortable. Not because it’s fun. But because resisting it only prolongs the suffering. Today, through the lens of Inner Garden Work, I see these moments as growth seasons. Just as a garden experiences storms, droughts, and seasons where everything appears dormant, we experience periods of grief, anxiety, depression, heartbreak, and uncertainty. What looks like the end of something is often the beginning of something new. The bigger the downward spiral, the bigger the growth spurt At least, that’s how it’s worked for me. That’s what I call the breakdowns to breakthroughs that come after I’ve done the work of feeling, integrating, healing, and growing. Learning this skill didn’t prevent difficult seasons from happening. Life still delivers losses, disappointments, heartbreaks, and challenges. What changed was my understanding of them. I stopped seeing myself as broken. I started seeing myself as reclaiming my garden. When a storm arrives now, I remind myself that it has come to teach me something. The lesson might take a day. It might take a month. Sometimes it takes much longer. In my experience, the length of the lesson often depends on how tightly I’m holding onto the problem. The first step is always the same. Feel the feelings. Don’t run, numb, avoid, or pretend I’m not having them. When one of my Category 4 hurricanes rolls through, I let it move through me. I cry. I journal. I sit quietly. I allow myself to acknowledge what is happening instead of pretending it isn’t there. Then I start asking questions: · What fears are stirring up? · What belief needs to be weeded out? · What do I want to plant? · What needs nurturing in my garden? · What lesson am I being invited to learn? I didn’t get to this place alone. My mom did her best to help me see that I was working myself up in my teen years. She gave me a seed—I just wasn’t ready to plant it yet. In my early thirties, I was introduced to the work of Byron Katie. A friend gave me a CD series called Making Your Thoughts Work for You with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Byron Katie. While I had already done a great deal of personal growth, her approach gave me practical tools for examining the stories I was telling myself. Her work helped me understand something profound: Not every thought deserves a place in the garden. Some thoughts are flowers. Some thoughts are weeds. Learning to question my stressful thoughts became one of the most effective tools I’ve ever found for creating peace. Another lesson came from my first sponsor in AL-ANON. She suggested I stand on a chair and look at a room from a different angle. Then she encouraged me to change the order of my daily routines. One day she told me to put the opposite foot into my underwear first. I had to leave myself a note in my underwear drawer. It sounds ridiculous, but it worked. The exercise wasn’t about underwear. It was about interrupting familiar patterns. When we become trapped in our thoughts, we often become trapped in our habits as well. Sometimes the smallest change can help us see a situation differently. I’m neurodivergent, so living in my head can sometimes be a little overwhelming. It’s important for me to have ways to break myself out stories that aren’t serving me. This is what I call feeding the weeds. It’s one of the reasons I love hiking off trail. When I’m paying attention to roots, snakes, sticks, and direction, I become fully present. The constant chatter quiets down, and I reconnect with the moment I’m in. I also love deep cleaning. When I’m paying attention to the little details of what I’m doing my mind slows down, and I can start being present to moment. Then, I take a few minutes to breathe and be present in my body to see what I’m really feeling. I have quite a few tricks to help me get out of my story and be present with the feelings trying to pass through. Over the years, I’ve worked with many people navigating their own growth seasons. While everyone’s story is unique, I’ve noticed a few things that tend to keep us stuck. We try to run, numb, and avoid what we’re feeling. We can use busyness, relationships. alcohol, shopping, work, food, binging on TV, gaming, social media scrolling, there are endless distractions. We can even miss out on experiencing joy when we are doing this. I’ve certainly done my share of it all. The problem is that whatever we refuse to face usually follows us. We may avoid tending a patch of weeds for a while, but eventually they spread and start stealing nutrients from our healthy plant life. I just did some physical weeding after I neglected to pay attention to the weeds with the pretty little flowers growing under one of our trees. It was such a powerful reminder of how important it is to keep up with regular gardening. When we don’t, chaos becomes familiar. For years, I found myself in relationships filled with yelling, criticism, emotional unpredictability, and even narcissistic abuse. Looking back, I understand why. It felt familiar because it mirrored what I witnessed growing up. Familiar doesn’t always mean healthy. It took years of conscious work to break that pattern. I studied healthy relationships. I surrounded myself with people who modeled what I wanted to learn. Growth requires us to plant something new where old patterns once grew. I had to be willing to get dirty and do the work. · If there is shame involved, bring it into the light. · If there is guilt involved, forgive myself. · If there is anxiety involved, come back to the present moment. · If there is anger involved, practice forgiveness. Not because the other person deserves it. Because I deserve peace. I can’t control anyone else’s behavior, but I have a say in how I let it affect me. Healthy boundaries come naturally when we start taking care of our gardens. One of the greatest gifts Inner Garden Work has given me is the understanding that every season passes. The storms, heartbreaks, confusion, darkness, challenging feelings, and circumstances all pass. So do the seasons I enjoy, that’s life. Our lives have seasons, and they all have purpose. Today, I can often move through difficult emotions more quickly than I could when I was seventeen. Not because life has become easier, but because I’ve learned how to tend my inner garden. I’ve learned how to: · Recognize the weeds before they take over · Care for myself when life feels overwhelming · See breakdowns as invitations to breakthrough · Treat myself from a loving place If you’re standing in a dark season right now, please remember this: Your garden is not broken. You are not broken. You may simply be in a season where the soil is being turned for your growth. Be gentle with yourself. Feel what needs to be felt. Trust what is being revealed. What feels like a breakdown may be the very thing preparing you for your next bloom. And all those tears are nurturing the soil. The results I get from inner gardening make getting dirty and scraped up worth it! Until next time, I hope you are able to find moments to align your energy with the love, abundance, and peace that you deserve. With Love and Gratitude, Rachael Wolff If you are interested in getting a copy of Tending Your Inner Garden in paperback or audiobook, just press the button. If you do purchase a copy, make sure to let me know because I will send you a free PDF of the 35-Day Cultivating Seeds of Love, Abundance, and Peace Journal. You can see my journey using the journal in Substack Notes. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fromalovingplace.substack.com (https://fromalovingplace.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   8 Jun 2026

   How Inner Gardening Became My Soul’s Calling

   I think many of us spend years trying to change our lives externally without realizing we are living from an untended inner landscape. We try to fix relationships, careers, finances, circumstances, and even our identities while ignoring the condition of the internal soil everything is growing from. For a long time, I didn’t fully understand this myself. Like many trauma victims, I became very good at surviving. I knew how to show up. I knew how to carry the weight of the world on my back—not comfortably. I was functioning while quietly disconnecting from myself underneath it all. I thought peace would arrive when the external conditions of my life changed, the right people showed up, the stress ended, the uncertainty passed, and when I finally felt safe enough to exhale. What I Slowly Started to Understand No matter where I went or what I did, I was still struggling in my inner world. Fear, lack, and separation kept following me. My old wounds were just waiting to be triggered at any moment. I would slide back into old patterns that just didn’t serve me. Ways of reacting, protecting, shame spiraling, abandoning myself, and giving too much to gain self-worth followed me. And this was all while reading endless self-help books and being in and out of therapy. I took a lot of steps to move myself forward in my life, but the energy of fear, lack, and separation still managed to keep spreading through everything good I tried to do for myself. Eventually, I realized that so much of what we experience externally is connected to what we are unconsciously cultivating internally through where our energy is being directed. That was the beginning. I started paying more attention to my stories that were playing on an endless loop in my brain. That’s when I started putting my focus on living from a loving place. How could living in the energy of love help me process all of life’s twists and turns. In my writing on FromALovingPlace.com is where the garden metaphor started taking on a life of its own. You can even see seedlings of it in my first book, Letters from a Better Me. At the end of 2019, I created a presentation for a speaking event where the garden really began taking shape. My first book was released in 2020 in the very beginning of the pandemic, which made me need to focus even more of my energy on staying out of the energy of fear, lack, and separation. That’s when I decided to start a blog series called, “Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace.” The series lasted a year. In that year the inner garden work grew. It became a way of understanding healing, relationships, taking accountability & responsibility, communication, leadership, and conscious living itself. Gardens Don’t Become Healthy Accidentally Gardens require awareness, attention, nourishment, protection, patience, consistency, and a whole lot of honesty. A garden can’t flourish by pretending weeds are flowers. Weeds with pretty little flowers steal the resources the healthy plant life needs to thrive. Strangling vines can smother tall trees. That truth became impossible for me to ignore. I began recognizing how many of us are living from gardens overrun by fear, lack, separation, resentment, exhaustion, comparison, self-abandonment, emotional survival, and inherited beliefs we never consciously planted. Some of us learned to survive by people pleasing, controlling, being vengeful, overachieving, staying quiet, being loud, and/or disconnecting from our emotions entirely just to name a few. We develop protective patterns for very real reasons. But eventually there comes a moment where survival patterns begin preventing the very peace, connection, love, and abundance we long for. That is where inner gardening begins. It’s not a place for perfection, performance, or pretending we are always positive. It’s real and it gets dirty. Inner gardening comes from awareness, openness, and acceptance of what weeds are showing up. We have to be willing to sit honestly in the garden of our lives and ask: * What have I been watering? * What keeps growing here? * What needs tending? * What needs uprooting? * What have I mistaken for protection that is actually keeping me disconnected from myself and others? Inner Garden Work is Deeply Personal I saw how fear spreads when weeds are left untended. I saw it in the energy I put into relationships, families, communities, causes, organizations, politics, religions, entertainment, and into the environment. The energy of fear, lack, and separation is all consuming when it goes unchecked. I saw how quickly fear can distort perception, fuel division, and disconnect people from compassion, clarity, and an individual’s perspective of truth. I also began seeing something else. I saw how love, peace, abundance, emotional responsibility, gratitude, boundaries, self-awareness, and conscious connection can spread too. I see how what I cultivate internally impacts the environments I create externally. The way I speak, love, lead, communicate, respond to conflict, parent, move through uncertainty, care for myself, support others, and live grows from somewhere. That’s when I began seeing clearly that integration and healing from our pasts is not about becoming someone else. It’s about becoming more conscious of what is growing within us. Inner Gardening Became My Soul’s Work This understanding eventually became the foundation for my work, my writing, my podcast, and ultimately my book, Tending Your Inner Garden: How to Weed Out Fear, Lack, and Separation and Cultivate Love, Abundance, and Peace. Not because I believe life can become perfect, because I believe we can become more intentional about what we cultivate. I believe we can spot the weeds and get them out faster. I believe we can see the beauty in someone else’s garden without having to plant what they grow in ours. As long as we connect from the energy of love, abundance, and peace, we don’t have to be threatened by each other’s differences. We can learn to stop feeding fear. We can stop normalizing emotional depletion. We can stop building lives rooted entirely in survival and hustle. We can begin creating lives rooted more deeply in love, abundance, peace, and authentic connection. Inner Gardening is Lifelong Work Our seasons can change our landscapes. We have seasons where others can see all our beautiful growth, and ones where our growth happens below the surface. Our gardens may look barren to the outside world. We still can get hit with nature’s elements like hurricanes, tornadoes, and snowstorms. I no longer believe healing means arriving at some permanently perfected state. I believe it means remaining willing to tend, notice, nurture, and take responsibility for the energy, beliefs, patterns, and emotional conditions we are contributing to our own lives and relationships. That’s why I keep doing the work. It’s why I offer a free bonus journal with the purchase of Tending Your Inner Garden, why I listen to the audiobook, and why I’m doing the everyday journaling in Substack notes. I want to keep cultivating what I want more of in my life. I want to live in conscious awareness of what I’m growing and spreading from my own garden. I want to make sure the seeds I’m offering to others come from the energy of love, abundance, and peace and not fear, lack, and separation as much as humanly possible. I love Inner Garden Work because it gives me the space to be human and different, along with the space to love and connect from an authentic place—from a loving place. Inner Garden Work Looks Different for Each Person I’m not here to tell you what seeds to plant. I offer seeds, it’s your journey to figure out what you want to plant and what you want to just observe. You may try to plant a seed someone offers you it doesn’t thrive in your garden. You may need to work in the soil first and get it healthy. You may discover the plant just isn’t for you after trying to make it work. You may want a cactus instead of a gardenia. I offer ways to tap into what is keeping us prisoners of our perspectives and tools to starting nurturing our perspectives that keep our beautiful plant life thriving. There is no judgement. I simply ask you to be honest with yourself about where you are putting your energy. If this resonates with you, I’d love for you to subscribe and join me here each week as we explore what it means to consciously cultivate lives rooted in love, abundance, and peace from a loving place. If you are interested in getting a copy of Tending Your Inner Garden in paperback or audiobook, the links are available on my profile. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fromalovingplace.substack.com (https://fromalovingplace.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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