#199: Get Planty with Dusty Hegge
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever made the connection between the growth of a plant and the growth in your faith? Have you ever encountered a communicative plant? If you’re a plant lover, buckle in! If you aren’t YET, you're going to learn about totipotent nodes. I mean, that's just going to happen. But you're also going to hear a beautiful story about rising up through the soil in a broken home, battling depression/anxiety and flourishing. You see what I did there?
Dusty Hegee is a coffee-obsessed houseplant educator, wife and mother living in the Pacific Northwest. She can’t help but see the incredible parallels between plant growth and the way God brings us through seasons in our lives. It is her goal is to equip people with the tools needed to navigate those seasons WELL, keep their houseplants alive, and learn to enjoy the growth process along the way.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
how and why Dusty decided to make houseplant education her career
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Dusty’s houseplant recommendations for the plant challenged - Golden Pothos and the Snake plant
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simplifying potted plants
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different types of plant propagation and how they work
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Dusty’s journey with anxiety and depression and what’s been helping her cope
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the traumatic birth story of Dusty’s first child and what she’s learned about God in the process of healing
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| 0:49.0 | podcast, the show that helps you love your actual life so that you don't need to run away from home. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's not do that, at least not this week. |
| 0:57.0 | Perfection is nonsense and peace is a perspective shift away. |
| 1:01.0 | I had one of the hardest weeks I've had in recent memory this week. |
| 1:06.3 | So it's just interesting that we're talking about plants today and growth and |
| 1:11.2 | growth mindset. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, because this week I have a sweet ghetto |
| 1:16.4 | who is breaking my heart, just smashing it to pieces. |
| 1:21.2 | It's been a really heavy and intense week and I've been begging and pleading with the Lord to soften their heart and just break them in the best possible way and give them wisdom. |
| 1:35.0 | It's just really been a heartbreaking time and I've noticed that the Lord in his faithfulness, even though I don't much like it, has been softening my heart and |
| 1:46.7 | breaking me and giving me wisdom. I don't know if he's doing anything for them, but he's really |
| 1:51.9 | been doing a lot in me. |
| 1:53.8 | And I'm just realizing that God is so faithful and so present. |
| 1:59.9 | And the situations that we're in, even they're excruciating are not for nothing. |
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