Continuing with The Garden Within by Dr Anita Phillips, chapter 3 discusses defining well-being as a garden where relationships, purpose, and legacy are grown from the soil of our hearts. Faith, hope, and love fertilize the soil, which is cultivated by our capacity and willingness to interact in a healthy way with our emotions. This

Some of my highlighted notes from The Garden Within by Dr Anita Phillips below… “Prevailing attitudes toward emotion, especially emotional pain, cause many people to struggle not only to be present with their own feelings but also to resist minimizing someone else’s pain by encouraging them to be optimistic, think positive thoughts, or remember to

Getting into The Garden Within by Dr Anita Phillips reminds me of things I’ve read from Dr Caroline Leaf many years ago. Her work comes from a different angle of the neuroscience – more about how we learn and renewing our minds and stuff, while I think Dr Anita’s findings will focus more on the

People have been wondering “where is the Garden of Eden?” since probably almost the beginning. I believe it may be much closer than we’ve imagined, and this little book adventure might give us some clues. I’ve been wanting to read The Garden Within by Dr Anita Phillips for a little while (I guess I ran