Creating a Therapy Garden – Update 2013

This year, we have seen the results from our volunteer Garden Therapy Project at the Trauma Center. It was very touching when Barbara from the Trauma Center spoke to us about the impact this project had on the women who participated.

I know it was a touching moment for all of us just knowing we had actually been able to help improve the lives of women who have been living through difficult situations.

Here is a quote from one of the participants and a photo of some of the harvest:

 “The Gardening Group has made a gigantic difference in my life. To see people face-to-face who have had similar experiences, has resolved a lot of pain I had.  One of the biggest issues for me was not having my mother’s love and not getting over it and grieving it. Being able to meet people whose mothers were narcissistic, people who are perfectly lovable, has helped me to see, it’s not what was wrong with me but what was wrong with my mother.   It has been a very healing experience and I no longer feel it was my fault.  
 

On April 21,2012 members of SI York Region volunteered time to the Trauma Centre located in Sharon, ON.

With “MEN” power courtesy of Cathryn Geraats, a day was spent preparing the foundation of a Therapy Garden.

 Click here for a link to the photos

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