Anger in the Garden — Pruning Back for Future Growth

“Not only does the repression of anger predispose to disease but the experience of anger has been shown to promote healing or, at least, to prolong survival.”

– Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress

Note: I first posted this blog 5 years ago (May 2017) and an awful lot has changed for me since then (I do NOT live at this crazy noisy house in Sidney anymore, thank goodness!) — but there’s some good info in here about the importance of acknowledging & releasing anger we might be holding on to.

If you are holding on to anger, figure out a healthy way to release it…better out than in.

I love puttering in the garden but I must confess to having mixed feelings when I’m working in my yard in Sidney. Unfortunately, over the seven years since I’ve lived here, more often than not there has been much in the way of neighbourhood noise to contend with while trying to achieve serenity: screaming children, parents screaming at said children, high-pitched band saws that get used for hours and hours on end, power washers, as well as the boom-boom-boom pounding of bass from music and video games.