Adding more self care activities to your plate won’t make you feel better.

You’re doing all the things the internet tells you to do to feel better.

Forest bathing, a yoga class, a breathwork session. You keep trying new things so that you don’t feel like you’re drowning in a sea of school runs, laundry and work.

Because you just want to feel like yourself again
Clear-headed. Energised. Calm.
You’re hoping something will finally stick.

At the end of the session you feel great, all those endorphins flying round your body.

But as soon as you head back through the front door your mood drops. You feel tightness and stress creeping their way back into your body at the thought of all the things still to do.

So you power on through the list, ending the day flopping on to the sofa feeling absolutely fried. That post self-care high, a distant memory.

The reason this is happening is because…these activities, that are supposed to make you feel better, ask you to give more before they give anything back.

They require effort and a ridiculous amount of planning and juggling to make them happen.

Which is basically the last thing your nervous system needs when you’re running on fumes.

You’re trying to restore yourself from a state of depletion, but all of these methods ask your brain to focus, your body to engage, your energy to show up, before you’ve even refilled the tank.

It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re not meeting you where you are.

You’re still in survival mode and you’re trying to heal like someone who isn’t.

You don’t need another ‘wellness’ practice that drains you before it restores you.

You need a rhythm that meets you where you are and actually gives back.

This is what horticultural therapy does. It isn’t garden maintenance. It doesn’t require loads of planning.
It’s proactive nervous system care in real time.

Small, sensory rituals that shift your body out of stress fast.
No pressure. No prep. No performance.

The moment your hands hit the soil, your body starts softening.
Not because you’re trying, but because it finally feels safe to let go.
This isn’t another self care activity to perfect. It’s relief you can feel, right outside your own back door, in 20 minutes a day.

Inside Seasonal Sanctuary, we create the rhythm, rituals, and sensory sanctuary to hold you through all four seasons, so you don’t burn out, you come back to life.

Ready for a garden that restores you daily not just looks pretty from the window?

I have 3 spaces to start this month.