The Wild Garden

04/20/2026

It's time to look at the thing that you have been avoiding 🌊 🌈

08/20/2025

Hey everyone.

I'm not sure who sees this page, but just in case you do, I wanted to give an update.

As you can tell, I have been pretty absent. Between my daughter's care, our boys' extracurriculars, summer ending, school starting, and normal everyday living, life has been satisfyingly hectic. Though to be fair, my bar for ‘satisfying’ has dropped to ‘no one broke a bone this week.’(Looking at you, Conner 👀)

Now that everyone is back in school, I have a little more time to myself, which is sacred to me.

While I adore and love spending time with my children, this summer has me cooked. Much like my lavender plants, which are currently in rehab. They started out vibrant and beautiful, if not a little leggy, but unknowingly I used a soil that would essentially drown them.

Normally I overwater, so when I saw moisture-control soil I thought "Finally, I won’t kill a plant!" Spoiler: I still found a way.

With the help of ChatGPT (save the judgment like you saved your ex’s hoodie you swore you gave back), I figured out the kind of soil they actually need. Armed with terracotta pots and airy soil, I thought I was blessed by the plant gods when the corn sweat heatwave (yes, it's a thing) also broke and they started to show some life.

No.

If you know Ohio, you know that's not how it works here. The heatwave came back, cackling at my attempts to save my lavender babes while wrapping them in a humified chokehold (not *that* kind of choke hold Chelsea).

All the new growth was toast.😵‍💫

So I did what any plant lover does - I bought grow lights and moved them to my dining room table, because that's a totally normal thing to do.

I check them every day for any new signs of growth, and one seems to be coming back to life. What's funny about lavender is that it can look dried up and gone, but really just be dormant and resting while it waits for the right conditions to bloom again. Which brings me to the whole point of this story:

Much like the lavender that looks crispy and dead on the outside, I’m really just internally recovering and slowly sprouting again.

I feel ready to get back behind the mic, crispy edges and all. So if you've killed a few plants over the summer, or ever, stick around. You don't have to be healed to belong here-my lavender certainly isn't and she's still on the guest list.

07/23/2025

Navigating the Storm.
This episode holds the things I couldn’t say until now.

I talk about what it means to love a child through crisis.
What it feels like to hold it all together while everything is breaking.
How I disappeared for a little while-not because I was lost, but because I was loving someone through the dark.

This is for the parents who’ve ever sat in the parking lot of a hospital and sobbed.
For the ones who are grieving in silence, because there hasn’t been room to fall apart.
For anyone who’s ever felt invisible in their own story while showing up for someone else’s survival.

There is pain and grief in this one, but also hope.
And healing.
And so much love.

If your heart is heavy with all of the invisible s**t no one sees, I made this for you.

🎧 Now streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

07/06/2025

We used to just tell our kids "write it on the list" when it came to them wanting a certain food item, but sometimes they wouldn't even know what they wanted.

🎬Cue the: "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO HAVE!" meltdown.

This Family Meal and Snack Planner takes out the guess work.
It’s made to reduce mental load for everyone-parents, kids, partners, all of it-because we all have low-capacity days. It helps to know meals are one thing already handled.

This customizable, fridge-friendly chart that includes:
🍽️ A rotating meal plan where each person picks one dinner
🥦 A list of easy, go-to sides and snacks
✍️ Space for writing down favorites (because executive function isn’t just an adult problem)
🔁 A flippable format that works week to week

So if you're tired of being asked "what's for dinner?" download the free editable template below and make it your own.

Then stick it on the fridge. Let the fridge be the boss now.

🧲👇

Check out this design designed by Brittany Hart.

06/25/2025

Somatic Release Practice: The Silent Scream

Sometimes what we feel can’t be written down. It needs a physical outlet.
This exercise helps release held tension, anger, and grief without needing to speak a word or make a sound.

How to do it:

1. Sit or stand somewhere you feel steady.

2. Make a fist and place it firmly under your chin, like you’re bracing yourself.

3. Inhale through your nose for 4 seconds, letting the breath rise into your chest.

4. Open your mouth wide as if youre going to scream, but exhale without making a sound. Push against your fist as if you're holding yourself through it.

5. Keep your body tense as you exhale. You make Shake, or cry or feel emotions rising up in you. Let it happen.

Repeat 2–3 times if your body wants more. Stop whenever it feels like enough.

06/12/2025

✨️🌿This is The Sanctuary.🌿✨️

Not a brand.
Not a performance.
Not another healing pipeline.
Not another space designed to keep you endlessly fixing yourself.

The Sanctuary is for the ones who are tired of being sold bulls**t.

The ones who have already been through enough.
The ones who are ready to face the real work. Not because it’s easy, but because they’re ready to stop carrying it alone.
The ones who are scared, but show up anyway.
The ones who feel unsure, but still step forward.
The ones who don’t want someone to “fix them”, but want support while they learn to hold themselves.

Here, you don’t:

have to be calm.
have to have it together.
have to become someone else before you’re allowed to be here.

You are welcome exactly as you are, with whatever you’re carrying.

Inside this space, your weight can sit down for a minute.

It’s still here.
But you don’t have to hold it all at once.
There’s a container now.

🚫This is not:

A quick fix

A marketing funnel

Another performance of “always healing”

Another system that keeps you in shame

🧡This is:

Real work

Real nervous system safety

Real sovereignty

Real freedom

I built The Sanctuary because I needed my own freedom.
Because I know what it feels like to be buried under shame and guilt for simply being a human being.
Because I was tired of watching people carry wounds they were never meant to hold alone, and being told they had to stay broken to prove they were healing.

You don’t have to be a martyr to deserve peace.

This is not where you come to be fixed.
This is where you come to finally stop breaking.

🖤 The Sanctuary is here when you’re ready.

Self-support for the ones still in the middle of the story.

06/11/2025

Episode 2 is out! I want to give a small disclaimer. When I recorded this episode I was really frustrated with feeling like no one was supporting me. I don’t feel like that now, but I still wanted to post the episode to honor where I was and the change that has happened. So thank you to everyone who has supported me, even the quiet ones I don't know about.

With that said, if you have struggled with setting boundaries this one's for you! Join me as I talk about how being a massage therapist has helped me learn to set my own boundaries which allowed me to relax and enjoy my job again.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/77579M1jh0ZAwvAJia0xqW?si=hjUe0QO6SgOP_ONcSwA3DQ

Podcast · Brittany Hart · Hart & Home: Do It Anyway was where I started. It's the beginning of my story, and where I talk about a variety of things-boundaries, parenting, emotional work-in raw form. If you loved listening to Hart & Home, follow me over to The Wild Garden where my story continues.

06/07/2025

Hart & Home: Do It Anyway is now on Apple Podcasts!

Personal Journals Podcast · Updated Weekly · Hart & Home: Do It Anyway is a raw, real podcast for the ones who keep showing up—even when no one’s watching. Hosted by Brittany, this is part voice note, part healing journey, part call to action fo…

06/04/2025

Okay, hey! It's Brittany! Clearly I'm not doing cookies anymore, and if you are interested as to why check out my new Podcast! It explains everything, and how this pivot happened. New episodes come out every Wednesday.

You don't have to be healed to belong here.

https://open.spotify.com/show/4QsiOcJMRCdUkS5WUwMTvu?si=93bd5e8343b54b2a

Podcast · Brittany Hart · Hart & Home: Do It Anyway is a raw, real podcast for the ones who keep showing up—even when no one’s watching. Hosted by Brittany, this is part voice note, part healing journey, part call to action for anyone doing the hard work of becoming. Expect unfiltered truth. E...