As a "job", gardening can morph from privilege into utter stress when you wake to heavy rain. Being so cosy in bed with the rain drops thumping rhythmically on the skylights, keeps me lulled into a dreamy wintery sense of being. On these days, I stay home, I read and do coursework. Subsequently, my finances can depleat bringing an unnatural sense of fear and anxiety around money and expectation.

There's that annoying saying, "do your passion, and you'll never work again" - bull. Unless you have your pockets lined with inheritance, or a healthy does of confidence & high self-esteem, that ship probably wasn't even built. I still and will always need to pay my way.

My passion is being in and around nature, which is everything - the trees, the plants, the bugs, the birds, the soil and us - the people. We are all natural and perfect and that's where my simple passion lies. I want to hear the stories on the wind and the experiences that have led you to me. I want to know why that compost decomposed so quickly, yet that compost took so long, and why you are finding it difficult to communicate your boundaries with your partner. I'm intrigued, curious, and dumbfounded by the world.

But it is a weird thing that money still needs to be involved in such simplicity. Capitalist society means I have a deep low tension sitting inside of me that is raised on fear of needing this and that. The opposite is the strength of a deeper, older wisdom - that everything is good, and plentiful. I believe in a world before money was the popular currency for life, I would have been happily connected deeply in my community - working the land and chatting & sharing. There wouldn't be a need for private gardens or therapists, we would all just be together - looking out for one and other.

But in the here and now, in this cornish town I need to go to work. The future of my ageing and growing family is my motivation and although a odd and somewhat unfair society we can live in, I am so lucky to have choice and opportunity. Everything is good, and there is plenty.

Faye Russell

Holistic Therapist

Reflexologist - Counsellor - Gardener