Each person has the ability to produce “fruit”, also known as our gifts and talents. And just like the apple tree growers, we have to worry about the pests that are attracted to our fruits, stripping us bare, as they feed only themselves.
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But as we care for our plants, we learn that many things that look or feel dead, often only look dead.
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Knowing what causes trauma is, for either a person or a plant, is the first step to bringing it back to health. Because any well intentioned treatment plan, can cause more trauma if the cause is unknown.
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We often struggle with storms because we take the presence of storms as a personal challenge to ourselves. The garden helps us remember that weather patterns, and storms, exist without thought of us. In the same way, so many emotional storms are not personal, though they affect us personally.
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When we experience verbal, mental, sexual, physical or any form of abuse, that violation is enough to destroy any sense of safety that we had…Luckily, garden therapy can help begin to rebuild a sense of safety.
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Horticultural therapy aka gardening therapy is using gardening or caring for plants as a therapeutic tool for health and healing of the mind, body, and soul.
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