Benefits of Gardening on Mental Health
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Does gardening help out more than our physical health? I brought on Michelle Frank, a psychologist to share her thoughts on gardening and mental wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We have a special two |
| 0:17.9 | episodes today and tomorrow with Dr. Michelle Frank. She is a clinical psychologist and she's the author of Aradip Guide for Women |
| 0:25.8 | with ADHD, but she's also a gardener. |
| 0:28.5 | And so she reached out to me on Instagram. |
| 0:30.7 | Her Instagram is ADHD, underscore doc, and we just started chatting about the benefits of |
| 0:36.9 | gardening on mental health, mindfulness, etc. |
| 0:40.2 | And so I thought we'd have her on for just a couple episodes, especially right now, if you're listening to this podcast, |
| 0:45.8 | when it's coming out with shelter-in-place orders and the coronavirus and all that stuff going on. |
| 0:50.7 | I thought Dr. Michelle, it'd be really cool to have you on and just talk about |
| 0:54.8 | from the clinical psychology point of view, what is gardening doing for our brains? |
| 1:02.2 | Totally. So it's doing a lot and we all know that I think we all certainly feel good |
| 1:09.3 | when we're guarding especially if it's something that we really enjoy it to interest we've cultivated over the years, |
| 1:15.3 | but most people don't know that there's actually a lot of research behind the benefits of gardening. go back quite a ways. What we're finding is that there |
| 1:29.1 | are a few ways in which gardening lights up the brain and so it can be energizing and |
| 1:35.2 | can be rejuvenating and can restore concentration but it's also stress relieving |
| 1:40.2 | and relaxing so we found that people who garden regularly tend to have decreased |
| 1:48.0 | stress levels. 30 minutes of gardening can do more to reduce your stress than 30 minutes of reading for instance and |
| 1:55.8 | there does seem to be a causal link it's not just a correlation which is |
| 2:00.8 | is interesting. |
| 2:01.8 | Yeah and I think a lot of the times, and forgive me if I'm speaking on a term, but it seems like a lot of the times in psychology, |
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