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  • Houseplants, A Little Playtime with a Houseplant Brings Big Rewards, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/16/playtime-with-a-houseplant, #houseplants, #plants, #happiness, #stress, #destressing, #stressrelief, #mentalhealth, #play
    Plants & Happiness

    A Little Playtime with a Houseplant Brings Big Rewards

    If you’re struggling through a stressful workweek, you may feel like you have no time to lower your stress. You’re juggling multiple tasks while your attention springs from one event to another. This is typical as we try to get through the avalanche of work that piles up. By Friday,…

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  • Peace Lily in Bloom, The Four Surprising Physical Benefits of House Plants, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/12/14/physical-benefits-houseplants/(opens in a new tab), #peacelily, #houseplants, #benefits, #cleanair, #mentalhealth, #stressrelief, #stress, #happiness, #indoor, #plants
    Plants & Happiness

    The Four Surprising Physical Benefits of House Plants

    It’s January and we’re spending lots of time indoors. That means artificial heat, little daylight, and more inhalation of polluted air that contains volatile organic compounds. The first two conditions lead to drier skin and lowered immunity against diseases like colds and the flu. The third, inhalation of VOCs, can…

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  • Leaf Your Troubles Behind Cover
    Books,  Plants & Happiness

    Leaf Your Troubles Behind Just Got an Amazing Cover!

    During 2020, I was kinda jealous of all the folks I saw on social media producing artistic projects and launching at-home start-up companies. I didn’t have a “pandemic project” as it were and felt so lame. Then in October a close editor friend of mine asked if I wanted to…

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  • Forest Path, How the Fresh Scent of the Forest Can Fight Cancer in Amazing Ways, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/12/08/forest scent cancer, #plants, #happiness, #mentalhealth, #stressrelief, #stress, #leafyourtroublesbehind, #greenleisure, #relaxation, #cancer
    Plants & Happiness

    How the Fresh Scent of the Forest Can Fight Cancer in Amazing Ways

    If you’re anything like me, you get stressed out because of work — or your kids or parents or even an unexpected traffic jam or small injury. Stress is an ongoing issue in our modern world. Sometimes when we’re stressed getting outside and taking a walk can help. Our mind…

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  • Plant and Mental Health Studies, Who Offers the Best Information on Plants and Well-Being? Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/12/08/plants-and-well-being/(opens in a new tab), #plants, #happiness, #well-being, #mentalhealth, #stressrelief, #stress, #relaxation, #research, #science, #studies
    Plants & Happiness

    Who Offers the Best Information on Plants and Well-Being?

    In the past several years, you may have seen headlines claiming that plants can help our mental health. Well, that is indeed true. But how do you know which studies are reputable? Which are woo-woo, feel-good stories stronger on common sense than fact? Which are flat-out misinterpretations meant to excite…

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  • London Street with Plants, 10 Quick Little Ways to Lower Stress Through Plants, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/16/quick-ways-lower-stress-plants, #plants, #destressing, #stressrelief, #lowerstress, #houseplants, #happiness, #mentalhealth
    Plants & Happiness

    10 Quick Little Ways to Lower Stress Through Plants

    In my article about why plants make us happier, I talked about how we’re innately connected to them through our evolutionary history as well as physiological make up. But though our minds and bodies work in concert with plants, we often forget about how powerful they are in lowering our…

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  • Part-shade garden border, Why Do Plants Make Us Happier? Five Fascinating Reasons, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/11/08/plants-make-us-happier/(opens in a new tab), #plants #happiness #plantsmakeushappier #garden #mentalhealth #stress #destressing #stressrelief
    Plants & Happiness

    Why Do Plants Make Us Happier? Five Fascinating Reasons

    When I was a professional gardener, I made a lot of people happy by helping them with their gardens. Usually, I either created and installed a new garden or maintained the one they already had. Regardless, after my work was finished, my clients often told me their garden was their…

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  • Lavender, The Only Two Herbs You Need to Lower Stress, Daily Stress ReLeaf, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2021/03/17/two-herbs-lower-stress/(opens in a new tab) #dailystressreleaf, #plants, #destressing, #mentalhealth #herbs #lavender #rosemary #lowerstress #stress #relaxation #anxiety
    Daily Stress ReLeaf,  Plants & Happiness

    #30 The Only Two Herbs You Need to Lower Stress

    In this last post about stress relief and plants, I’d like to spotlight a couple plants that are easy care yet powerful. They’re kinda the only two herbs you really need to lower stress. Many gardeners across America, at least living down to zone 5, can grow them. Both will…

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Karen Hugg, circle frame, http://www.karenhugg.com, #books #plants #fiction, #nonfiction, #thrillers, #mysteries, #gardening, #happiness, #stress, #stressrelief

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Our bodies are actually built to work harmoniously with nature. That's why we find it so relaxing. Do you have plans this Memorial Day weekend to get outside?
Here's my Horizon Monarch rhododendron for your viewing pleasure today. Happy Friday! #gardening #TGIF
We often learn something new every day, right? Well, when we learn about #plants, we can lower our stress too!
Here's a pretty container I saw the other day: fuchsia, coleus, impatiens. Happy Monday! We get to enjoy another one.
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