The rain makes the garden even more beautiful =)

I love how the garden and all the plants look after the rain. All the raindrops on the leaves and flowers.

I love all the different flowers, foliage and textures within my garden too. It’s fascinating 🙂

I’ve been playing with the macro feature on my camera too. Makes a difference to just taking snaps on my phone camera.

Gardening, gardening, gardening. Thank God for gardening.

First attempts at growing lettuce.

More lettuce.

Marigolds make me smile 🙂

Propogating plants, my new gardening passion :)

Gardening has become therapy for me. In so many ways. I love it and it brings me joy. I am currently learning how to propagate plants, so that I can grow my own plants and this will cost less long term. I’ve successfully propagated succulents (so easy), agaves, and other plants.

Geraniums have a special significance for me, due to many holidays in Spain, Greece – where geraniums grow abundantly. I can’t afford to go back to these countries, so I’m bringing a little Spain and Greece into my own garden.

Gardening joy :) Mindfulness, grounding, joy, natural beauty :)

My new geraniums. I love them as they remind me of the Mediterranean – all the little white washed Greek and Spanish houses and beautiful villages 🙂

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Beautiful hibiscus 🙂

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Stunning fuchsia 🙂

Gardening Therapy :)

My gardening is my therapy, my mindfulness, my stress reduction, my joy, my creativity, my inner child healing, my place of safety.

I’m a firm believer in creativity of some kind, being soothing and healing to the traumatised brain. As are many experts.

My mindfulness, my enjoyment, my stress reduction, my inner child healing, my escape… my gardens.

Pics from round my gardens, where I spend time every day, pottering around…

I utilise my gardens for many reasons. Including being where I escape to, when my anxiety is raised, my stress levels are up, and children and husband are pushing my buttons.

My gardens and lovely areas to sit and have a cup of tea, help soothe my mind. They give me something creative and positive to do. They create mindfulness in a way I can regularly participate. They help with inner child healing, and are something so pretty to look at.

I love my flowers, my fairy’s, my cute stuff.

A perfectly wonderful and highly adaptive coping strategy, that aids wellbeing, and promotes healing.

Self care…. some gardening done today, a few new winter pots :)

I have become a fan of gardening…. it is great for self care, mindfulness, something creative, pretty and enjoyable.

Some days I enjoy it and some days I don’t – because that’s the bad days when I feel nothing good.

But, on the days I do gain some pleasure from it, it makes it all worth it.

Today, I planted up a few new winter pots and my little seedlings are coming on well.

Pics from my gardens :)

My gardens ~ are part of my healing journey ~ in many aspects 🙂

Why ‘buy’ stuff for my inner child, when I can make it.

I love sewing, although only very basic stuff and one type of clothing I do know how to make, is pillow case dresses and tops.

As I was wandering around Spotlight earlier, looking at material to stretch over canvases, I was admiring all the Christmas materials, thinking how beautiful some would be as little girls dresses and suddenly realised, I can ‘make’ dresses for my inner child.

I picked some beautiful material and some co-ordinating ribbon and will make a pretty dress for Christmas for my inner little girl.

This will incorporate some mindfulness, as I have to really concentrate when sewing, creativity and inner child healing, all at the same time.

Perfect!

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