Finding Joy through Plants in a Season of Transition: Reflecting on 2021
Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care
Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
When I think back on this last year, transition is the word that comes to mind. We are literally transitioning into a new year, but I'm sure everyone went through some form of transition this year: a new home, family additions and losses, job changes, and more. And as we grow through those transitions, our plant collection evolves too. I personally went through a tremendous transition this year and my plant collection and plant parent personality completely shifted. These transitions in my plant parenthood brought up a lot for me: feelings of shame, failure, or almost a rigidity to stick with what I used to do. In moving through this transition, I found some really helpful practices and concepts that helped me ebb, flow, and grow that I wanted to share with you today. So, this episode is rather different than our other episodes: it’s highly personal and I get into the nitty-gritty of some behind-the-scenes of this growing business and my life. No ads, no interviews, no guests—just checking in!
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In this episode we learn:
- [00:56] Why transition is an important conversation today
- [02:26] How Maria’s plant parent personality and plant collection have changed this year
- [03:37] What to expect from this year-end episode
- [05:45] Maria’s questions to YOU, the listener
- [08:03] How the Bloom and Grow listener community inspires Maria and the podcast
- [11:00] Why plants improve our lives
- [11:30] Updates on the Bloom and Grow Radio podcast
- [13:40] The different transitions Maria went through this year
- [15:05] Planty practices to find more joy and stillness in your life
- [15:16] Why you should have your morning coffee with your plants
- [18:13] The benefits of engaging with plants during the day
- [20:23] Shifting how you see plant care and your plant number
- [22:09] Explore your plant curiosity
- [23:02] Use planty affirmations and some of Maria’s personal examples
- [25:44] Maria’s big announcement!
- [30:27] A very special (and secret) snippet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Plant friends. Welcome to a little shorty episode, a little year end episode where we dive into the emotional aspects of the importance of plant care. |
| 0:12.0 | I cannot believe we're at the end of the year honestly the holidays completely snuck up on me and Billy this year didn't even get a tree |
| 0:19.3 | I'm not sure how you're feeling but for me 2021 has definitely been more of a |
| 0:24.8 | whirlwind than 2020 was and I'm getting the sense in a lot of conversations that |
| 0:29.6 | I'm having with friends and listeners and community members that it almost feels like in |
| 0:34.1 | 2020 we were all kind of moving through the trauma and shock of our global |
| 0:37.9 | pandemic but 2021 was where the shock kind of started to wear off and we were left to actually reflect and process |
| 0:45.7 | all of these transitions that we all went through. |
| 0:49.1 | When I think back on last year and kind of what I feel from a lot of conversations I've been having lately. |
| 0:55.0 | Transition seems to be kind of the word of the moment. |
| 0:58.0 | We are all literally transitioning into a new year right now, |
| 1:02.0 | but everybody is transitioning or has |
| 1:03.9 | transitioned in some form, whether you're transitioning into a new home, whether you're |
| 1:08.9 | making family transitions, additions or losses, job transitions, so many different seasons of life that people are ebbing |
| 1:16.2 | and flowing through. And we're all kind of going through it. So as we grow and change and |
| 1:21.6 | evolve, our plant collections and the way that we approach |
| 1:24.9 | plant care changes with us. And I think for many of us, this was the first kind of year of |
| 1:30.4 | transition we all went through and saw how that was reflected in our plant |
| 1:34.3 | collections. So maybe your collections grew and you doubled down and you know our very |
| 1:39.8 | proud plant collection and plant care is a huge part of your life right now. |
| 1:43.9 | Maybe your plant collections were reduced due to whatever was going on in your life. |
| 1:49.1 | Maybe your interests and specific plants changed. Maybe your passion for plants deepened, or maybe you're even |
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