What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We have a special two

episodes today and tomorrow with Dr. Michelle Frank. She is a clinical psychologist and she's the author of Aradip Guide for Women

with ADHD, but she's also a gardener.

And so she reached out to me on Instagram.

Her Instagram is ADHD, underscore doc, and we just started chatting about the benefits of

gardening on mental health, mindfulness, etc.

And so I thought we'd have her on for just a couple episodes, especially right now, if you're listening to this podcast,

when it's coming out with shelter-in-place orders and the coronavirus and all that stuff going on.

I thought Dr. Michelle, it'd be really cool to have you on and just talk about

from the clinical psychology point of view, what is gardening doing for our brains?

Totally. So it's doing a lot and we all know that I think we all certainly feel good

when we're guarding especially if it's something that we really enjoy it to interest we've cultivated over the years,

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

are a few ways in which gardening lights up the brain and so it can be energizing and

can be rejuvenating and can restore concentration but it's also stress relieving

and relaxing so we found that people who garden regularly tend to have decreased

stress levels. 30 minutes of gardening can do more to reduce your stress than 30 minutes of reading for instance and

there does seem to be a causal link it's not just a correlation which is

is interesting.

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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