Plant Adventure

Anxiety often comes hand in hand with depression. Depression involves a lot of nothing. 

So, doing something that nourishes yourself can be an adventure in its own right. And one way to do that is to grow something!

 Meet Wilbert:

 


 

 And Eggydoo:

Wilbert and Eggydoo:

Aren't they cute? They're kind of like people with social anxiety or depression. Because what you can't readily see is that there is a real pumpkin and a real flower inside of these! You crack them open, add water, give them plenty of sunlight and viola! You're ready to transfer them outside.

That's what I feel like my therapist did for me. I felt like a big fat clod of dirt surrounded in darkness. He had to crack me open, because I was a bit closed off at first. That was the scary part. Then he gave me a lot of help and nourishment and I have grown a lot already.

I feel more prepared to open up and blossom out into the brave, wide world. I never thought I had a real plant underneath all this dust. That's what people with anxiety don't get sometimes. Just because it looks like a lump of dirt, doesn't mean there's nothing substantial there. When the lump of dirt is taken care of, it can become something.
 
Now, you must know, I do not have a green thumb. And this is the first time I have attempted to grow anything by myself.

The pressure's on. Will they live? Or die? Follow me throughout spring and summer to see what will become of Wilbert and Eggydoo. I will need to wait until it is warmer to plant them.

Aww, what a happy family. I hope I will not kill them :P.

Until my next adventure,

Namaste (bye in Nepalese)

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“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden  

"And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden