Mini Episode: 5 Ways to Use Scented Plants to Reduce Stress and Increase Joy
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
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Plant friends, we are changing things up. We're taking a detour from our typical long-form content to introduce a new format — mini-episodes — taken from our rich conversations. These episodes are meant to be your bite-sized lessons about how to use nature to bring joy into your life. And in this first episode, inspired by our recent interview on aromatic gardening, we’re going to talk about 5 practical steps to incorporate scent into our daily routines.
In this episode, we learn:
- [00:26] What these mini-episodes are about
- [01:18] Why smell is important for memory and stress relief
- [02:39] #1 Going for a restorative post-rain walk
- [03:21] #2 Utilizing essential oils
- [03:59] Different ways to diffuse essential oils
- [04:43] Some essential oils and plants you can use!
- [06:04] #3 Growing scented plants (if you’re not into oils)
- [08:06] #4 Interplanting aromatic plants with edible plants
- [08:39] #5 Making yourself a mini bouquet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Plant friends, welcome to a mini episode of Growing Joy where |
| 0:04.8 | Plant Care is Self Care on Growing Joy, the podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | Plant friends, I hope you're continuing to have a beautifully planty week |
| 0:12.0 | popping in an unusual day |
| 0:13.5 | because I'm experimenting with some many episodes I'm creating in addition to the |
| 0:17.3 | weekly long-form episodes that I already make for you inspired by those episodes and |
| 0:22.4 | interviews that we do on this |
| 0:23.7 | podcast to help you care for plants and cultivate joy. Think of these many |
| 0:27.3 | episodes as like little baby knowledge cuttings, like a planty little cutting of the high-level conversations that we have that is |
| 0:35.8 | entirely focused on giving you a jam-packed episode of actionable steps that you can take to |
| 0:42.2 | leverage the info from the interviews to grow more |
| 0:45.6 | joy in your life. |
| 0:47.0 | They're like quick hits that you can listen to as you drink your coffee in the morning that |
| 0:50.7 | you can immediately start implementing to live a happier life because |
| 0:54.0 | plant friends. My goal in life with this business with the Growing Joy Podcast and brand is to help you |
| 0:59.5 | grow a kinder, calmer, happier life through connecting with nature, |
| 1:03.7 | whatever that looks like for you. |
| 1:05.2 | If nature is your houseplants, |
| 1:06.6 | if nature is your garden, |
| 1:07.9 | if nature is literally nature getting in the woods, |
| 1:10.8 | I'm here to help you do that |
| 1:12.0 | because I want you to be happier and calmer. |
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