The Role of Nature in Personal Growth

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

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What role do you think nature plays in your life? For me, it has always been a deeper way to improve my mental, physical, and emotional health. In fact, it’s not just me who thinks this way. The minute I hopped into the digital recording studio, I knew that my guest was someone very similar to me! I’ve been following Marcus Bridgewater, better known as Garden Marcus, for years, and I’m so happy to say that he surpassed my dreams of what this conversation on plants and wellness could have been.

In this episode, we learn:

[02:12] Who is Marcus from Garden Marcus?
[04:49] Something we have in common!
[09:03] How did Garden Marcus get started?
[12:50] How did Marcus first start gardening?
[17:01] Our crazy plant parent stories
[18:56] Community and isolation
[20:37] Why we need more green spaces
[27:41] How to be a more “grounding” person
[30:08] How disconnected is the world from nature?
[33:08] Exploring plant life parallels
[36:37] How to understand “feelings”
[39:35] How to awaken to nature’s presence
[43:27] How Marcus’s book came to be
[46:11] Mind, body, and spirit
[47:32] What it means to be “community loyal”
[48:23] Garden Marcus vs. Marcus Bridgewater
[51:04] Check out Seasons of Growth: The New Journal
[53:30] Where to follow/find Garden Marcus

Mentioned in this conversation:

How to Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself by Marcus Bridgewater
Seasons of Growth: A Journal for Well-Being Inspired by Marcus Bridgewater
Choice Forward
Redwood National and State Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

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0:00.0	Have you ever had that experience when you meet someone and within 30 seconds, you know this is your type person?
0:05.5	I felt that the minute I hopped into the digital recording studio for today's interview with our guest,
0:10.9	I've been following him and his inspiring social media account for years. You might know him as
0:16.1	Garden Marcus. But as a person who has interviewed so many different online personalities, you really never know
0:22.0	what they're going to be like in person. And I'm so happy to say that Marcus has surpassed my
0:26.9	dreams for what this conversation on plants and wellness could have been. I ended up tossing
0:32.1	the list of questions that I had prepared for him to the wind and just trusted our conversation
0:36.8	would flow where it was supposed to,
0:38.3	and boy did it. This conversation filled my soul so much, and I am so excited to share it with you.
0:50.4	Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,
0:56.0	but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.
1:02.0	I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best
1:11.5	plant friend. On growing joy with plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care,
1:16.0	gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants.
1:19.5	Plant care is self-care. On growing joy.
1:32.3	Hello, plant friends. My name's Maria. I'm here to help you care for plants and grow joy.
1:39.7	And today I am so excited for an in-depth conversation with Garden Marcus, Marcus Bridgewater, my new plant friend, all about how we can really use plants and nature as a wellness tool. And I thought as we
1:46.3	wrap up the year, as 2024 comes to a close, what better way as we're all in either this like
1:52.0	exhausted from the holiday space or ideally reflective space? I always get very reflective at the end of the
1:57.0	year. Just like using this conversation as kind of balm for your soul, for your
2:03.0	planty soul, and also ideally inspiring you to maybe bring some of the tools and some of the
2:08.5	thoughts that Marcus and I discuss into 2025 with you. If you don't know about Garden Marcus,
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