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5 Ways Gardening Benefits Someone in Recovery

Gardening can help lower stress, increase self-esteem, and decrease anxiety while enhancing overall mental and physical health. For those in recovery from addiction, learning healthy ways to cope with negative emotions and effectively treat mental health is essential to maintaining sobriety. Here are five ways that gardening can benefit someone in recovery.

From Seed to Spoon Oklahoma State Organic Vegetable Growing Conference

Organic Oklahoma Fall Conference @ OSU-OKC – How Gardening Transformed My Life and Helps Me Manage Anxiety & Depression

Dale had the pleasure of speaking at the Organic Oklahoma Fall Conference at OSU-OKC on 10/11/18.

He spoke about struggling with panic attacks, anxiety, and depression and how gardening has helped him to overcome these. Dale discusses our journey through gardening and what we have learned over the years. He also discusses our current app version that is available as well as the plans for the future upcoming versions!

A Sustainable Mind Podcast

Listen to Dale talk about Gardening, Anxiety, Mindfulness, From Seed to Spoon, & More on the “A Sustainable Mind” Podcast

I had the pleasure of joining Marjorie from the “A Sustainable Mind” podcast to chat a few weeks back. You can hear our conversation about what led to us growing food and why we built our app at the link below. We also talked quite a bit about anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and how the battle against them is all related to why grow food & help others do the same.

OKC.js From Seed to Spoon Anxiety Work Life Balance

OKC# Developer Meetup Presentation: Overcoming Anxiety & Depression Through Work/Life/Farm Balance

This is a recording of a short talk I gave at OKC-Sharp this week about anxiety, depression, and how I’ve adjusted my working habits to help keep them in check. Thank you to StarSpace46 and Techlahoma Foundation for providing a platform to talk about a topic that’s very important to me. Please feel free share with anyone you think might benefit from hearing this!

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Anxiety, Mindfulness, and How I Learned to Let Go of Fear

Note: I wrote the story below last year before we started the blog. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and wanted to share. I’ve found mindfulness to be a key component to battling anxiety and depression and I hope this helps someone out there.  Last Christmas Eve we found out my wife Carrie was pregnant. Life couldn’t have been better. 14 days later I agonized in the hospital waiting room as the love […]