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Self-Care Expert: How Gardening and Resilience Grow Together


April 21, 2021
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Gardening, cooking and tie-dying clothes are a few of the hobbies that gained resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Portia Jackson Preston, a Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of public health who specializes in self-care and teaches such courses as “Stress Management,” never saw herself as the gardening type. But the pandemic, along with social and political upheavals in the world, challenged her to seek a new outlet for wellness.
What inspired you to start a garden during the pandemic?
In the fall of 2020, I wanted to disrupt a habit of digging further into my work to distract myself from all I couldn’t control in the world in regards to racial injustice, politics and the pandemic. For weeks, I set an alarm at 4:30 p.m. every day to brainstorm hobbies that would be the opposite of the intellectual and emotional labor I do on a daily basis. After a few weeks, I identified that I really wanted to see something ....

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