• Thinking is OK! Rumination vs Worthwhile Thinking

    A big thing that I personally came across during my journey with OCD was a rather large villainization of thinking. Many people with OCD can see very clearly that the pain of aversion is typically present when OCD thinking takes place. So, yes, some thinking needs to be different or even no longer take place.…

  • Two Kinds of Mind Seeds – What Will You Grow Today?

    Every single day, we make thousands of decisions on what kind of seeds we want to water in our own lives. Anything that we focus on, that we allow to become the center of our attention, is what we are choosing to grow. If someone waters blueberries in their garden on a daily basis, they…

  • What is the Practice?

    Welcome to Your Life is a Garden This website grew out of a group of friends dedicated to practicing wellbeing who began wanting to spread that sense of wellbeing. What do we mean by practice? It can be Practice seeing your own mind.Practice tending it: knowing the weeds, refraining from watering them, and instead watering…