Inspiring Women Magazine May 2023
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Revisiting 2022...<br />
Sandra Montgomery<br />
Liz introduces us to her <strong>Inspiring</strong><br />
Woman of 2022 gardener, Sandra<br />
Montgomery, AWC Bogotá.<br />
"Our <strong>May</strong> 2022 issue of <strong>Inspiring</strong><br />
<strong>Women</strong> featured all things gardening<br />
and also went on to become our<br />
very first "live" event with the<br />
Garden Party that we hosted online in June.<br />
Sandra’s story started with a great deal of<br />
trauma in her early years which could easily<br />
have broken her; in fact she was in a life<br />
threatening car crash during this period. But<br />
from those early, very dark years she has moved<br />
on and developed into a woman who is clearly<br />
at peace with herself and her life.<br />
Reading about someone who uses what they<br />
learned through their own personal difficulties<br />
is inspiring. After many years working in the<br />
corporate world, Sandra decided to resign and<br />
retrain in psychology. She subsequently set up<br />
a physical space for others, especially pregnant<br />
teens and those in other vulnerable situations<br />
like the one she had been in many years before,<br />
to come for rest and healing.<br />
While she does this she also has developed a<br />
real passion for gardening and finds it brings<br />
peace to her mind. Not having any formal<br />
training and dealing with gardening in Colombia,<br />
she has learned, mainly by trial and error, what<br />
she can and can’t grow. It clearly has become a<br />
real passion.<br />
Sandra Montgomery<br />
She was good enough to agree to<br />
be one of the presenters at the<br />
Garden Party and it was a real<br />
pleasure to get to know her better<br />
through that experience."<br />
Sandra out in<br />
her gorgeous<br />
garden<br />
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