Childhood shapes the current and future human race — that's why we're starting here, with nature, with science, and with the whole child in mind.
Pediatric OT — Autism Spectrum, Sensory Development & Whole-Child Wellness.
The world's first children's self-care collection. OT approved.
I created Growing Minds Garden as a mother of two young daughters and an occupational therapist with over 10 years of experience across pediatrics, mental health, child development, autism, and nervous system regulation.
This brand was born long before I had a title.
It was born the first time I watched my world shift as I sat next to the most beautiful tree I could find in Brooklyn, as a young child. It was born the first time I watched a flower do what no pill could. The first time I understood that everything our children need has always been here, growing quietly, beautifully, waiting to work alongside us.
I have spent my career sitting at the intersection of two worlds that were never supposed to be separate. Eastern wisdom and Western science. Ancient plant medicine and evidence-based therapy. The garden and the clinic.
Growing Minds Garden is what happens when those worlds finally come home and sit next to each other and have a cup of tea while looking out into the garden of both of their dreams.
This is not a wellness brand. This is not a mommy blog. This is a belief system. A philosophy. A movement in the radical idea that our children deserve products made specifically for them, with them in mind, by someone who has spent a decade studying how their brains, bodies, and nervous systems actually work.
Every product we create. Every piece of content we share. Every flower we reach for — it all comes from the same place.
Childhood is the most important thing we tend to on this planet. Our children are innocent. They are here. They are now. They are everything.
And they deserve a world built for them as we hand in hand build a world we can only say we dreamed of, come to life.
Annetta Founder, Growing Minds GardenThe world's first children's self-care collection.
Organic, plant-based, herbalist-formulated.
Every product made with the whole child in mind.
We are carefully and lovingly formulating The Garden, a collection of clean, organic, plant-based products crafted with clinical precision and herbalist expertise. Each product is made with the whole child in mind. Something beautiful is coming.
With over a decade of clinical experience, Annetta is building a private practice grounded in relationship, nature, and whole-child wellness. Services will be deeply individualized and science-based.
Annetta personally reviews every inquiry and will reach out when services open.
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The world has created an essence that childhood is fleeting. Too small to be a priority. But what could be more important?
We are here to remind the world that medicine grows in the garden. That healing lives in silence. That the ground beneath our children's feet is a pharmacy, classroom, and sanctuary all at once. It is nervous system regulation. It is the oldest therapy that ever existed.
We live in a world built entirely for adults. The products are built for only adults to open. The spaces are adult designed. The pace is adult driven. The philosophy is adult production. Somewhere in all that our children got lost. Overstimulated, dysregulated, and handed synthetic everything while they labeled it "medicine."
We were born from a deeply held missing piece in our world. A belief that it starts today, with our innocent little children. That they deserve the best healing and wisdom this world has to offer. Therefore we utilize Eastern and Western medicine healing philosophies in our therapy and in every product we create. Every culture, every flower, every ancient remedy that generations of mothers and healers knew by heart, woven together with the best of modern science to give our children exactly what they deserve.
We believe self-care is not vanity. It is independence.
When a child can apply her own chapstick, reach for a salve and apply it herself in a moment of need, and understand that the flowers growing around her are not just pretty but medicine — that they have nerve endings too, that they are alive and that they are our ally — she is learning that she is capable. That she belongs. That life was made for her too.
We believe flowers are not decoration. They are medicine. Every one deserves to know that.
That world starts here. With small hands. Clean ingredients. Eastern AND Western wisdom.
This is what we build for her. This is what your child deserves. The best of nature, the best of science, the best of ancient wisdom, and a life that was always meant to be hers.
Welcome to Growing Minds Garden. ☀️
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