How Gardening Can Bring You Back to Life

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today we hear the story of Stephanie Rose and how gardening quite literally brought her back to life after a crippling illness that left her bed bound for two years, and with minimal ability to move around for 8.

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0:00.0	What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We have a really awesome and epic week ahead of us because today and for the next few days I'm joined by Stephanie Rose of Garden Therapy.
0:15.0	She's a Vancouver Master Gardner and a permaculture designer.
0:18.0	Of course she's the founder of the awesome website Garden Therapy and the author of nine books including the upcoming Garden
0:25.1	Alchemy. So I'm really excited to get my hands on that book and actually Stephanie
0:29.6	really excited to just connect over a call because I know that we've been in the space both of us
0:35.2	for quite a long time and you of course more longer than I but it feels like I've always
0:39.2	known you from afar and now I'm really happy to have you on the podcast.
0:41.6	Yeah, thanks.
0:43.0	I know.
0:44.0	We've been chatting a little bit online,
0:45.0	but I think this is the first time we've actually talked, so it's cool.
0:48.0	Yeah, yeah, super excited.
0:50.0	And I think it makes sense to start out with a bit of your story and you have a quite gripping story
0:56.5	of how gardening kind of changed your life or maybe even brought you back to life in a sense.
1:00.8	So I'd love to hear a little bit about that.
1:02.1	Yeah, sure. So. back to life in a sense so I'd love to hear a little bit about that.
1:02.8	Yeah sure.
1:04.0	So many years ago now I guess 2006 I got a headache one day
1:10.0	and that completely changed my life.
1:13.2	All of a sudden I was completely flat out,
1:16.4	could not get out of bed for two years almost.
1:20.0	And then I had a long, more like eight year recovery process to get back to health.
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