Dirt Therapy: A Nurse's Guide to Growing Through Anxiety, Grief, and Burnout

You don't need a green thumb to heal in a garden. You just need dirt, a little time, and a reason to show up. > Dirt Therapy is part memoir, part practical guide, written by a nurse who has used a shovel and a patch of dirt to survive some of the hardest years of her life - including a family member's Alzheimer's, her husband's stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and grief that never quite resolves into something tidy. >- The real science behind why gardening calms an anxious mind and a burned-out body - A permission slip to fail - because a dead plant was never a verdict on you - A ten-minute ritual that survives even your most unpredictable, exhausting weeks - How to garden with grief, not around it - turning loss into something living - Low-maintenance plants that forgive you for the days you have nothing left to give - What to do when you don't even have a yard - Honest, unflinching chapters on the days nothing helps - and why that's okay too > If you're tired of self-help that assumes you have more time, energy, or hope than you actually have right now - start here. Start with dirt.