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We believe true sustainability begins within.

When we tend to our inner gardens—our dreams, emotions, and energy—we naturally learn how to care for the Earth and each other with more presence and love.

Our mission is to offer tools, stories, and practices that help you reconnect to your dreams, your plants, and your purpose.

Because living sustainably isn’t just about what you consume or recycle—it’s about the way you move through the world.

Through our podcast, digital guides, and dream-gardening tools, we invite seekers, dreamers, and growers—of land, ideas, and spirit—to explore what sustainable living really means: living in rhythm with yourself and the planet.

Here, we garden our dreams.
We slow down. We listen.
We grow things that feed us creatively, emotionally, and spiritually.

Sustainable living is…

🌿 Resting when you need it, instead of pushing past your limits.
💭 Listening to your dreams and letting them show you what matters.
🤝 Sharing what you can with others, and letting them share with you.
🌎 Treating the Earth like a friend, not a resource.
🌸 Growing things—ideas, gardens, relationships—that nourish you and the world.

It’s less about doing everything right and more about living in a way that feels aligned—rooted, intentional, and kind.

When we live sustainably, we give back as much as we take.
We find a flow that supports not just us, but everything we’re connected to.

✨ Subscribe to follow along as we create lives that are truly sustainable—where we can just be.
We’re living our best lives right here, in the space between gardening and dreams. 🌱💫

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157. HOW TO FLOW AND GROW THROUGH LIFE’S DETOURS Grounded Spirits

What if the detour was the destination all along?This week in L.A. unfolded nothing like I planned and that turned out to be the gift. From surprise gifts to surprise visitors to river revelations, birthday parties, and a powerful performance at a Hawaiian festival, each day showed me something about surrender, synchronicity, and trust.In this episode, I share a week of intuitive detours — the kind that reveal who you’re becoming when you stop clinging to who you thought you had to be. You’ll hear about:✨ following signs and symbols🌊 letting nature guide your healing🎉 embracing joy, connection, and softness🛶 reimagining your city, your path, your paceIf you've ever felt frustrated when life doesn’t go your way, this one’s for you. The flow is the way.✨ Want the journal prompts, affirmations, episode links, and more?Head to https://theornelian.com/2025/07/23/how-to-flow-and-grow-through-lifes-detours/ to explore everything mentioned in this episode
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PLANT A DREAM

Here, your dreams are seeds — sacred wishes waiting to take root.
Tell us what your heart longs for, no matter how wild, gentle, or impossible it may seem.
When you plant a dream with Grounded Spirits, you place it in fertile, enchanted soil — tended by hands and intentions ready to help it grow.

How it works:

  1. Share your dream below — big or small, whispered or shouted.
  2. Trust that it’s heard.
  3. Watch as magic, art, and intention weave your wish into reality.

Whether it’s an experience, a piece of art, a message, or a moment — your dream will find its way back to you, transformed.

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HISTORY OF GROUNDED SPIRITS

Pre-2020

Ever since I was 8 years old, Back to the Future has been my favorite movie. I was so enthralled by the idea of time travel. Now, I do it all the time.

As a kid, I was always able to tune into energies but I never trusted them. I didn’t know how to control this power inside of me, so I feared it and tried to push it down. “Conceal, don’t feel” was the motto. I ended up concealing the very thing that made me shine.

I always knew I was destined for greatness. I just had no idea how that could ever truly become reality especially when I no longer felt like I could be me.

March 2020

The world shut down the day before my wedding. Everything was canceled. I was devastated. Ended up getting married in my parents’ front yard on a whim that day, March 21, 2020.

I felt like God dangled and taken away this gorgeous day that I had envisioned daily for not only the 18 months of planning it but also for the last 20 years. Every girl dreams of their wedding day.

This was supposed to be the day when I would finally be able to shine again. It made me question everything.

May 2020

I began my spiritual journey! I learned about everything I could get my hands on about witchcraft, religion, and spirituality, which in essence are just different perspectives of the same thing. TikTok and YouTube were my best friends.

I developed my Reality Theory around this time but I had no one to share it with.

September 2020

On the drive to Laughlin, NV for Labor Day, a warm but firm voice told me to start a podcast and to name it Grounded Spirits.

I felt like I had no choice but to obey, I created the website and released the first episode on the 10th. I was so nervous. I didn’t even introduce myself. My name nor picture could be found.

I didn’t have money, or time, or confidence but I made it happen. I posted nearly every week since then. This has been the only “job” I have been able to commit to for over a year. It was meant to be.

This was the first logo!

August 2021

Up until this point, all of the episodes were just me documenting my spiritual journey by way of learning about the chakras. I later published a book called Unlocking the Chakras on April 2022. I also led a mini-book club on my favorite book of all time, The Game of Life and How to Play it by Florence Scovel Shin.

On August 1st, the 44th episode came out featuring my first guest on the show, Roger Butts. We discussed his book, Seeds of Devotion.

November 2021

I quit my teaching job and went all in on Grounded Spirits. This was a big time of change in my life. I left a profession that I loved deeply for almost a decade.

I had just bought my first house a few months prior. It was scary but exciting. I knew everything was going to work out. I started actually believing in myself and the potential of Grounded Spirits.

I designed this new logo by hand! It was a new era of the show with a newfound confidence that I had acquired while continually uncovering new parts of my soul!

April – December 2022

On the podcast, I became very interested in the spirituality of sex and how to embrace being sexual beings. Because of this tangent of my spiritual journey, I became an author! My first book was, All About Sex. It was published on April 23, 2022.

A month later, I published my third book and first guided journal called Believe: A journey into yourself. I used my love and skills of lesson planning from teaching all those years to make this book an amazing compilation of resources and activities that helped me along my journey into myself. Where the podcast discussed them as I experienced them, the book neatly organized the journey.

I then published the following books:

Monterai on July 13th

Learn to Dream on July 26th

Dare to Dream on July 29th

All About Weed on December 12th

2023 Astrological Planner/Journal November 27th

To learn more about them, click here.

January 2023

Grounded Spirits had a makeover inside and out at the beginning of 2023.

On the inside, the tagline changed from “a place to learn about nature, creativity, and yourself” to “a place to explore the spiritual side of self-expression”. At first, we were focused on expressing through the mind, body, and spirit. Now, we are focused on how the zodiac signs express themselves.

On the outside, Grounded Spirits’ colors came alive. Interestingly, as I dug my way out of my darkness and found myself spiritually, Grounded Spirits’ logo went from dark colors to lighter ones.

October 29, 2023

By the end of the year, Grounded Spirits received its final logo (as seen above). The background was generated via AI with my specific prompts. I wanted Grounded Spirits to be a place where we could lay back and fucking chill. I wanted it to be a place of scholarly discussion while enveloping spiritual practices. Grounded Spirits is the witchiest of all the companies and I wanted the logo to demonstrate that. I also wanted to lean into the juxtaposition of the name Grounded Spirits. (I used to hate the name for that very reason!)

On this very day, I also announced something new. The show was going to be LIVE on Instagram (it never made it to YouTube). It would no longer be available on Spotify/Apple Podcasts. This format only lasted a few episodes.

It was also at this time that I discovered Carlos Castañeda’s work (randomly at a free Spanish book stand). My life has never been the same since.

February 27, 2024

On this day, the first episode of Plant Magick came out.

I was drawn to working with plant spirits—not just through Castañeda’s influence, but because my connection with Mary Jane had revealed many of the universe’s secrets to me.

However, I was almost ashamed of my relationship with cannabis because of how stoners are perceived in society. I never really talked about it on the show. And when I did, I would be super awkward and start giggling. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Discussing Plant Magick on the show allowed me to not only learn about plants, but allowed me to connect with them at a deeper level than ever before! These pages also allowed me to openly talk about my marijuana use.

July 18, 2024

On this day, Grounded Spirits became a video/audio show. This was the first ever video I put on YouTube of just me talking. It was so nerve-wracking.

It was also the first day of Dream series. Dreams were also something that I had always been curious about but had never done research on until now.

August 2024

Eaton Canyon called me from the side of the road. I was mystically led to this boulder off the hiking trail.

I came every week. I got to know every rock, every tree, every animal that lived here. I would walk down barefoot. I loved this land. And it loved me.

At the time, I was learning to regulate my nervous system. I allowed myself to come to “set” just to be and sometimes an episode was filmed, sometimes not. This place supported me in every way possible.

I call this place Grounded Spirits because my view was my previous logo—water running at the foot of majestic mountains. I couldn’t believe that the place I created in my imagination was a real place.

January 2025—it burned down. Of course, I was devastated. But I didn’t care what it looked like after the fires, I just wanted to be in that space again—feel that love again. To this day, I have yet to return. It was first guarded by the national guard, then high fences were put up so no one entered.

Spring 2025

Through the grieving process, I found that Grounded Spirits is a wellness pod for gardeners and dreamers—really honing in what Grounded Spirits had always been.

It is now filmed under a tree named “Mar y Cielo” by the Los Angeles River overlooking the back of the Hollywood Hills.

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