Gardening Love covers the topic of mental health and wellbeing, with a range of blog posts and articles.
Hoping to offer an upbeat approach to mental illness with a view to discussing depression and other mental illnesses openly and positively.
Tackling mental health and wellness head on so that we can breakdown the mental health stigma’s of society.
Therefore offering a safe place for people to seek advice. The aim is to encourage people to seek help and suggest ways to open up about our mental state.
A range of articles offer help and advice for ways to deal with feelings of depression, anxiety and negative thoughts. Looking at positive action to alleviate some of the symptoms of mental health so that no one is alone.
Blog posts cover the use of mindfulness, green therapy activities, lifestyle and ecotherapy as ways of enhancing mind, body and spirit.
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
How to get mental health help ? I believe a key factor in making progress with mental health lies in explaining how to get mental health help. Alongside this, there must be reassurance and information explaining what that process entails. From a patients perspective there is a huge unknown as to what happens after they seek… Read More Mental health help. How to speak about your mental health.
Making friends with your mental health So you have depression. Me too for the purpose of this post we will skip through what depression is and the symptoms involved. I thought it might be helpful to look at ways to embrace depression as opposed to fighting it. Fighting can be tiring, sometimes you need a… Read More 3 ways to embrace depression
Thoughts …….. Friend or Foe Finding a way to stop negative thinking is so important for the state of your mental health. Negative thoughts are like poison for the mind. We all have moments when our mind gets carried away with itself and we build mountains out of mole hills. For some people it is… Read More Stop Negative Thinking In Its Tracks With This One Powerful Technique
The power of thoughts Thinking or thoughts take up a massive part of our lives, if you think about it when was the last time you didn’t think about something? It’s almost impossible not to think isn’t it? I guess you could say that I was always a glass half full kind of girl. I… Read More Alter your thoughts and way of thinking to positively change your life
Winter be gone……Spring come along….. Winter can feel as though it hangs around a heck of a long time. It can get you down somewhat especially after the excitement of the the festive period is over and so it’s important that we try to find ways to beat the winter blues. If… Read More How to beat the winter blues by following these tips.
Gardening groups. Get communities together! It seems that gardening love is in the air ! ❤ More and more people are using their garden hobby as a means of meeting like-minded people. I have read some lovely articles showing how nature brings people together. More communities are creating Gardening groups where they get together, have a chat and a… Read More Gardening groups bring people together
Ease depression by gardening Depression has been a part of my life for some years now. It can manifest itself in a number of ways. For those of you who have ever suffered with depression or know of someone who has this illness then you will know how debilitating it can be. As for myself… Read More Gardening for the mind. How to fight depression with nature.
