What if healing doesn't start with a plan—but with your hands in the soil?

In this debut episode of The Inner Garden Podcast, host Kimberly Bryant shares stories of land-based healing, ancestral wisdom, and emotional restoration from women of color. From Memphis to Nigeria to the Canadian coast, these voices reveal how tending the earth can become a radical act of self-love, grief work, and spiritual grounding.

Listeners will hear:

• Chioma Aso reconnecting with childlike joy in her grandmother’s Nigerian garden

• Louise Adongo embracing “riotous” bloom as a form of creative and emotional freedom

• Mona Doggett Wilson reflecting on her grandfather’s legacy in Orange Mound

• Karla Monterroso slowing down to find clarity and calm amid chronic illness

• Rhoda Hickman honoring her mother’s memory through a sacred garden

• Jenn Ponder sharing ancestral gardening wisdom and the power of community food growing

This is not a podcast about hustle. It’s a space for healing, memory, and ritual—offering grounding practices and gentle reminders that growth begins underground.

✨ Produced by The Roots & Resilience Studio
🎧 Length: 22 minutes

Keywords: healing through gardening, ancestral wisdom, women of color stories, land-based practices, emotional resilience, burnout recovery, Black women and land, community healing, spiritual restoration