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The benefits of gardening and food growing for health and wellbeing are well documented.

By practicing gardening for mindfulness you can relieve stress and anxiety, boost your mood and improve your wellbeing.

The following mindful gardening for wellness activities can be done in the January garden while the weather is still cold to help you get outside and connect with Mother Nature as a way to switch off and quiet your busy mind.

It’s fair to say 2020’s been a stinker and I know that it soon being a new year isn’t really going to change much in the grand scheme of things. But if we collectively start this year off with hope that things will improve at least we’ll feel like we are doing something useful. And what can be more hopeful than starting seeds.

I always sow my Sweet pea seeds on either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day as a way to start the year with hope and the promise of growth and this year I invite you to join me.

Here’s the mindful gardening steps I follow for maximum relaxation time.

January can feel like the longest month ever after all the excitement of Christmas and the pressure to make this year 'the best yet!' Statistically Blue Monday (always a Monday in the middle of January) is the most depressing day of the year.  But why not give this scented indoor floral arrangement a try to remind you that warmer days are coming, Mother Nature has so many delights in store for you in 2022 and its ok to look forward with hope and excitement.

Follow these simple steps to make your own.

The Mindful Gardening Planner is the UK’s only gardening planner that gives you month by month mindful gardening activities AND helps you to actually fit them into your day to day life.

Designed to help busy women just like you to harness the benefits of gardening and food growing for health and wellbeing and feel calmer and happier as a result.

If you’re wondering how exactly it can help you then here are 7 reasons to help you make up your mind.

So you want to use mindful gardening as a way to help you improve your mood and wellbeing.  But no matter how many times you tell yourself you’re going to do it, you still haven't actually started. 

Here’s 7 reasons why and what you can do to fix them.

Personally I’m not a fan of Gardeners World.  I find the presenters and their gardens really hard to relate to.  The show is crying out for someone to show what is actually achievable within the small pockets of time that busy women have available to them to tend to their green space. Now that I could get on board with!  

If you find yourself tuning in on the regular but actually struggling to create your dream garden. Here’s 4 reasons why that might be.

I love logistics.  If I'm ever going anywhere I like to have a clear plan of how the day will look.  It helps me to feel more comfortable and enjoy myself more.

In case you’re the same, I’ve put together this step by step sneak peek into what our time together at a mindful gardening retreat will look like.

Think you have to have hours of free time to get the most out of mindful gardening? Think again.  Believing that the practice requires you to be retired (or not work) is one of the more common myths. Misconceptions about mindful gardening not only hold seasoned gardeners back from developing a more mindful practice but they also prevent many busy women to rule themselves out before they’ve even tried it.

Let’s get to the truth, here are 10 mindful gardening myths you should stop believing right now.

The positive wellbeing effects of gardening are well researched but as a busy woman with a lot on your to-do list already, doing the garden can feel like yet another thing to get done.

My 5 minute mindful gardening techniques and activities enable you to do something that will make you feel great whilst you tend to your green space in the short amount of time you have available to you.

Here are 5 ways mindful gardening can help you.

There are so many free masterclasses floating about on Instagram right now.  So I want to make sure you know exactly what you’ll be getting when you join mine and how it can make a huge impact in your life.

Here are just some of the fabulous things I’ve got lined up for Thursday to help you start to switch off in your garden so that you can feel calmer and less stressed.

I firmly believe that you don’t need to know the latin name of every plant or have studied the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) qualifications to call yourself a gardener.

BUT many in the gardening world like to use words and phrases that sound like they’re speaking another language at times!

I’m on a mission to provide women an accessible route to headspace one growing season at a time and so I’ve written this article to demystify those terms and help you get gardening mindfully as a way to switch off, find calm and boost your wellbeing.