What happens when someone feels safe enough to grow?

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🍃 Growth sounds beautiful until you actually have to go through it.

In this episode of Our Garden, Samone and Jenn explore what growth really asks of us: not the polished, inspirational version, but the uncomfortable, messy, sometimes scary process of stepping into unfamiliar rooms, learning your own limits, and deciding who you want to become. Through stories about power, consent, confidence, boundaries, feedback, storytelling, and crisis response, they explore the difference between wanting to grow and wanting to already be on the other side of growth, why you cannot do someone else’s growth for them, and how hope can live alongside pain when things feel unbearable.

A Gentle Note: This episode contains honest conversations about suicide, mental health, the sex industry, BDSM, gun violence, and other potentially sensitive topics. Please care for yourself and engage at your own pace.

❤️‍🩹 Resources

If this conversation brings anything up for you:

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US & Canada) - Call or text 988 for free, confidential support.
• Los Angeles Mayor's Crisis Response Team

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What does it really mean to become yourself?

In this episode of Our Garden, Samone sits down with her longtime friend Fawn Winters for a conversation about identity, independence, and the beautifully winding path of becoming. Fawn reflects on leaving home at eighteen, describing the experience as "free-falling into a whirlpool"—equal parts exhilarating and terrifying—and how that leap became the beginning of discovering who she truly was.

Together, they explore chosen names, growing up biracial and bisexual, family expectations, and the quiet courage it takes to define yourself beyond the stories others have written for you. Along the way, they share memories of first apartments, complicated family dynamics, unconventional relationships, heartbreak, and the lessons that emerge as we learn where our boundaries begin and our truest selves are allowed to bloom.

By the end of the conversation, both women look back on their younger selves with tenderness, reflecting on the reminders they wish they'd carried sooner: choose yourself, make room for your emotions, and trust that becoming isn't a destination to arrive at, but a lifelong practice of returning home to yourself.

A Gentle Note: This episode includes conversations about family conflict, sexuality, infidelity, and substance use.

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