Restoring Balance: Harnessing Nature for Workplace Wellbeing on World Mental Health Day 2024
As we mark World Mental Health Day 2024, this year’s theme—focusing on mental health in the workplace—highlights the growing need for employers and organisations to prioritise mental wellbeing.
October Garden Notes
As the days shorten and the crisp air settles in, October in the garden feels like an embrace—a reminder to slow down and savour nature’s seasonal rhythm. There’s a distinct change, almost like the garden is taking a deep breath, preparing for the quieter months ahead.
Embracing the Slow Flower Movement: Cultivating Sustainable Beauty
Creating your own cut flower garden is a delightful way to immerse yourself in the slow flower movement. It's a rewarding endeavour that offers year-round blooms, regardless of your garden's size. Plus, growing your own flowers provides therapeutic benefits, from the joy of nurturing plants to the satisfaction of harvesting your own blooms.
Reconnecting with Nature: The Path to Emotional Balance
From a young age, we are taught to override our bodily cues—eating when we’re not hungry, raising our hands to use the bathroom, and sleeping on a schedule set by others. This disconnection can lead to emotional turmoil and a sense of disorientation that persists into adulthood. However, nature offers a remedy, a way to restore our innate connection to our bodies and the world around us.
Digging Deep: The Soulful Connection Between Soil and Wellbeing
It's Bee, the founder of The Wild Remedy, here to share a little dirt on my latest horticultural journey—studying soil. Yes, you heard it right! Soil isn't just the stuff we walk on; it's the foundation of life itself, and delving into its secrets has been an eye-opening experience……
🌸 Welcome to Spring! 🌿
In the United Kingdom, the first day of spring heralds a magical transformation. The bleakness of winter gives way to a burst of colour as flowers bloom, trees bud, and the landscape comes alive with the sound of birdsong. It's a time of optimism, hope, and the promise of new beginnings.
Finding Our Wild Haven: A Journey to Establish The Wild Remedy's Home Base
As I sit down to share the latest chapter of our journey with you all, I can't help but reflect on the highs and lows we've encountered in our quest to find the perfect plot of land to establish our home base for ecotherapy activities. The past year has been a whirlwind of excitement, frustration, and hope as we've scoured London and Essex for that elusive piece of land that speaks to our vision.
Blossoming Minds: How Nature and Gardening Nurture Children’s Wellbeing
Children's Mental Health Week is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK.
Empowering Girls and Women: Creating Inclusive Outdoor Greenspaces
Nature provides many lifelong benefits across physical health, mental health and academic competency. With the growing concerns over the mental health of today’s young people it is interesting that various studies found that it is the teenage age group that are the least connected to nature.