How to Overcome Burnout Through The Healing Power of Nature

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

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How do you handle burnout? We have all asked that question at some point because modern society has a lot of demands, and it's become too easy to feel overwhelmed. But what if there was a free and accessible tool that could help you turn towards yourself again, away from overstimulation and crazy schedules? In this episode, I will share with you my own experience with deep depression and severe burnout, and how I found healing through making major life shifts centered around spending more time in and with nature.

In this episode, we learn:

[00:24] Maria shares her experience with depression and severe burnout over the past three years
[01:54] Plants are a great way to reconnect with a part of ourselves that modern society ignores
[10:24] How is burnout defined?
[12:27] How do you recover from burnout?
[13:25] What is Attention Restoration Theory?
[14:23] First type of attention: Directed Attention
[14:37] Second type of attention: Involuntary Attention (aka fascination)
[16:10] Involuntary attention practices to help you find balance in life
[16:14] Look at a plant before you look at your screen
[18:00] Thank the trees
[18:36] Pair it with gratitude
[19:25] Ritualize engaging with nature
[22:54] Go outside
[23:02] Forest bathing and its benefits
[25:51] Mental health walks
[26:44] Get your bare feet on the earth (aka grounding/earthing)
[28:36] Practice mindfulness through plant care
[30:53] Lean into scent
[33:24] Two different types of plants for healing purposes
[33:38] Slow burn plants
[35:57] Quick win plants
[38:23] Pruning back to inspire growth

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0:00.0	I recently took an Instagram story poll taking a survey on how our community was feeling in the moment. I called it a vibe check.
0:06.7	The options were I'm feeling amazing. I'm in a season of struggle. I'm feeling burned out AF, aka as buck, and changing internal seasons.
0:17.0	60% of you plan friends selected that either you were struggling or feeling extremely burned out.
0:24.3	So, to the members of this community that are in a season of struggle, who are feeling low,
0:29.7	who might be feeling off or out of alignment or blue.
0:33.4	You are so not alone, my friend.
0:36.2	I see you, I see you so deeply because frankly,
0:39.5	I am coming out of a season that pretty much lasted for the last three years of deep depression and
0:45.0	severe burnout like scary burnout and I would define most of 2021 and 2022 for me in as in a season of struggle. But here's the thing plant friends. The sun came out. I'm finally feeling better. I have done so much work and a huge part of this healing journey for me has been making major life shifts that have been centered
1:04.9	around spending more time in and with nature and returning to slower more natural rhythms and
1:10.5	cycles. So although many of these episodes on the Growing Joy with
1:14.0	Plants Podcast are more light-hearted on topics like growing lettuce or spring house
1:18.1	plant care, today we are going to dive deep. So deep into a truth that has grown such deep roots within me
1:27.0	that plants are so much more than interior decor pieces or landscaping pieces, they are an invitation to come back to ourselves.
1:36.1	Caring for plants is an invitation to reconnect with a part of ourselves that modern society
1:41.7	ignores that has forced to go dormant.
1:44.3	Because we are nature. Plant friends.
1:47.2	Listen, hear me out, we breathe, we have DNA, we have a vascular system that moves
1:52.1	fluids around our body, right?
1:54.0	Well, let me tell you, so do trees.
1:56.0	Trees breathe, trees have DNA, trees have xylem and flowum,
2:00.0	push in the nutrients it needs around their bodies. We are nature. It's why we feel so connected to nature.
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