What if the thing you planted with hope — the thing that once gave you shade, shelter, and pride — is now standing in your way?What if it’s not growing … It’s groaning? What if it’s not dying … It’s already dead, and you just haven’t admitted it yet?
In this raw and thought-provoking episode of the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast, Tim Windsor amplifies the quiet death of a Norwegian maple on his front lawn into a brutally honest meditation on growth, loss, and renewal. Through the violence of a chainsaw and the silence that follows, Tim invites you to confront the dying “trees” in your own life — the projects, relationships, habits, and beliefs that once gave life but now steal it.
This isn’t a story about gardening — it’s a story about courage. The courage to admit when something’s no longer alive. The courage to cut it down. And the courage to replant — deliberately, patiently, and with purpose. With unfiltered honesty and piercing insight, Tim explores the roots of why we cling to the dead, how “shoulds” silently suffocate our growth, and what it takes to cultivate a new season of possibility.
Listeners will walk away with questions that cut deep — and answers that can heal: How to audit your “root system” and identify what’s nourishing or draining you. How to know when something’s dormant versus dead. Why destruction often precedes rebirth. And how to plant new beginnings that will one day stand tall again.
Our Tree Died … And: is a reflection on endings, beginnings, and the fierce, liberating beauty of growth that appears only after you let go and stop watering what’s dead.
Tim Windsor
the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast – Host & Guide
tim@uncommodified.com
https://uncommodified.com/
PRODUCERS: Alyne Gagne & Kris MacQueen
MUSIC BY: https://themacqueens.ca/
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