EP.116 - The Well Gardened Mind with Sue Stuart-Smith, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Author
May 18, 2021
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Episode 116 - The Well Gardened Mind with Sue Stuart-Smith
Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and the author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller, list as one of the 37 best books of 2020 by The Times and gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times.
She studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and working in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire.
She currently teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a consultant at DocHealth, a not for profit, psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors.
She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.
Her book, The Well Gardened Mind, analyses the relationship between gardening and mental health.
In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have know for years that working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.
Sue Stuart-Smith shares brilliant, illuminating stories of people struggling with stress, depression, trauma and addiction, from asylum seekers to veterans, inner-city young people to the retired.
This glorious book of science, insight and anecdote that shows how our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is only just beginning to flower.
In Episode 116 - Podcast Guest - Sue Stuart-Smith shares:
- a little bit about herself
- what inspired her write her book - The Well Gardened Mind
- the relationship between gardening and mental health
- how being in nature or working with nature has restorative powers
- stories of people struggling with stress, depression, trauma, addiction and how they have used gardening as a life transforming practice and tool
- the mental health impacts of covid19
- what her self care rituals are
Plus we talk about so much more of course
Get Ready to Tune In EP.116
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