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Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

The Power of a Therapeutic Garden to Help Us Feel Better

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

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Gardening has long been known for its therapeutic advantages and as a place of calm and peace in the middle of a hectic schedule. Garden therapy can relieve stress and enhance our mental and emotional health. In this episode, we'll look at 9 gardening practices that can help you develop a deeper connection with nature—and yourself.


In this episode, we learn:

  • [05:11] Therapeutic benefits of gardening during tough times
  • [09:40] How gardening can help you with focus and monotasking
  • [10:55] The connection between gardening and mindfulness
  • [12:55] 9 therapeutic garden activities for a more joyful gardening experience
  • [13:01] #1 Turn your garden visits into a self-care reflection moment
  • [17:08] Where can you find the best tone fertilizers for your indoor and outdoor plants?
  • [21:09] Engage your 5 senses!
  • [21:18] #2 Sight (being fully present in the beauty of nature)
  • [22:53] #3 Smell (enjoy aromas and incorporate them into daily routines)
  • [24:56] #4 Sound (especially bird songs!)
  • [26:54] #5 Touch (trace leaf outlines and feel their textures)
  • [28:38] #6 Taste (try your homegrown produce!)
  • [29:56] #7 Affirmations (to your plants and yourself)
  • [33:24] #8 Grow flowers
  • [35:39] #9 Look for plant/life parallels


Mentioned in our conversation:


For a closer look into these therapeutic gardening practices,

check out the full show notes and blog here!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

There is a reason why so many people say that gardening is their therapy.

0:06.0

Gardening helps us cultivate joy and weeds out stress in our life.

0:09.8

Love the plant puns. Get ready, this episode's going to be chock full of them.

0:13.9

For so many reasons, gardening brings us into the present.

0:17.6

It allows us to tap into awe which naturally raises our sense of well-being.

0:22.7

It gives us a sense of accomplishment,

0:25.0

of ownership, of empowerment.

0:27.2

It connects us to others, in garden societies,

0:30.4

in garden clubs, or just in the tips and advice neighbors swap with each other.

0:35.0

And honestly, Plant Friends, there is no better feeling than the delight that you get from picking

0:40.9

a flower or an herb or a tomato that you have tenderly cultivated over a span of time

0:47.6

to share with friends or to enjoy for yourself.

0:50.5

Gardening helps us process life and death, death and

0:55.6

rebirth. Natural cycles. It helps us process the passing of time.

1:00.3

It's magic. It's therapeutic. Garden is truly therapeutic and I totally subscribe to the catchphrase

1:07.2

Garden is therapy. So in the peak of the gardening season for those of us in North America. I wanted to take an entire

1:14.0

episode to celebrate not just how we tend to our gardens and how to grow the things

1:18.3

growing in our gardens, but how to use our gardens, how to use ourselves as a deeper conduit to engage with nature

1:26.0

and to celebrate just how therapeutic gardening can be

1:29.5

and arm our community with free tools and tips to enrich your gardening experience

1:35.2

and make this the most joyful gardening season yet. So welcome back.

1:38.8

Welcome to the Growing Joy Podcast where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,

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