{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Homing","title":"Sue Stuart-Smith on Nature, Childhood & The Garden as Medicine","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2261,"description":"Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, gardener and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind. She has spent her career making the case that going outside and getting your hands in the soil is one of the most powerful things we can do for our mental health.\n\nSue runs the Serge Hill Project, along with her husband, Tom Stuart-Smith — a garden and events space where children and groups from disadvantaged backgrounds come to learn about the profound link between gardening and wellbeing.   \n\nHer research isn’t just scientific; it’s rooted in her own family history. Her grandfather found solace in gardening after the trauma of being a prisoner of war and her mother restored a large garden to cope with the death of Sue’s father. \n\nThe episode builds on these stories to explore the positive hormonal effects of gardening on the body, the growing movement of green prescribing and how beauty can be a lifeline to those in recovery.\n\nThis is a conversation about stepping outside, tuning into the natural world and finding a gentler rhythm.\n\nA full tour of Sue’s beautiful private gardens is available to our Patreon community.\n\nPatreon: http://patreon.com/HomingWithMatt\nTo hear more from us:\n\nYouTube: Subscribe to our channel, Homing with Matt, to watch the video version\nInstagram: @homingwithmatt\nContact: Email us at hello@mattgibberd.com\n\nMatt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to Live, is available here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320176/a-modern-way-to-live-by-gibberd-matt/9780241480496\n\nMusic by @simeonwalkermusic\nIdentity & design by @lena.winkler.creative.office \nProduced by @podshoponline\n\nThe full catalogue of home tours is available to our Patreon community.\nPatreon: http://patreon.com/HomingWithMatt","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jfhTOve5zkBU-4TRtFPERWb8yNLRKVKLKahjrWvoDdk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNWNk/YTE1NTI1ZWQ0NjI1/MTBhNDlkOWY1ZTU1/OGM1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}