Gardening Love puts mental health first and encourages open conversation around this subject.
A range of articles and blog posts to discuss mental illness as well as the stigma surrounding such illnesses.
Encouraging people to get support and to support those around them is vital.
Topics include; raising awareness, tackling the stigma, encouraging open discussion and how to get help.
This section covers a wide range of mental illness topics including depression, anxiety, mood and stress .
Gardening love promotes nature and ecotherapy based activities.
We look at how being in nature and getting outdoors can help ease some of the symptoms of depression and low mood.
This category aims to boost wellbeing and promote self care through simple activities like gardening and walking.
Simple activities like these can often be over looked. Yet they are accessible to most people and provide huge health benefits.
We all have dark days. Those days when you want to stay under the duvet and pretend your not there. Those days when you feel as though there is no right side of the bed, let alone the wrong side! It’s days like these when we need some positive actions to focus on to get… Read More 60 Positive Actions To Help You Through A Dark Day
Self care is a huge topic right now. With spring, the season of new beginnings upon us, a springtime self care routine is a must for your mental health and wellbeing. People are really starting to take their health and wellbeing more seriously, and that my friends can only be a good thing. If you… Read More Springtime Self Care Ideas
Don’t be a procrastinator, be and instigator! You have all these ideas floating around your head. You desperately want to share them and make your mark on the world. However it can be difficult to know where to start. Thats when the stalling can begin and you feel yourself drowning in all these thoughts. If… Read More How to get motivated and get stuff done.
The power of nature When we stop to notice nature, we gain so much. These inspiring nature quotes encourage us to slow down and appreciate the world around us has a great impact on our outlook. For me, nature is not just something pretty to look at, but it is an energy which draws me… Read More Inspiring nature quotes
Gardening benefits everyone Gardening benefits the mind, body and soul yet it still gets a bit of a wrap for being one of those activities which only suits a certain type of person. It does carry a stereotype with it. Although gardening has become more popular over the past few years, with more television coverage… Read More 5 ways gardening is underrated.
Gardening Ways to live your best life with meaning We all have hopes and dreams which we believe will help us live our best life. Sometimes it is easy to go off track and lose sight of what makes us happy. Here are 5 ideas to help steer you in the right direction towards living the… Read More 5 things to do more often to live your best life
Get the ball rolling Mental Health Conversation Starters Last week was mental health awareness week. At the start of the week I put together a roundup post, of past Gardening Love mental health articles. Midweek my post focused on what mental health looks like and the stigma surrounding mental health. So to end the week I thought… Read More Mental health conversation starters
Exploring the face of mental health The world has a population of around 7.3 billion people. Each person has their own characteristics which make them unique to our world and as a society we tend to like to categorise people. Tall, short, slim, overweight, light, dark, blue eyes, brown eyes, rich, poor etc. We all get sucked into… Read More Tackling the mental health stigma
Mental Health Awareness Week: Blog Post Roundup This week is mental health awareness week. Here at gardening love I like to promote mental health awareness and encourage people to start the conversation. So I decided to kick the week off with a mental health roundup post! This week I will be focusing the topic of… Read More Mental Health Roundup: Encouraging Mental Health Discussion.
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