A leaf in an anxious world! | AD

For many, I know that spending time amongst nature can be a great help with anxiety. Below is a guest post from permaleaf, whom create and install amazing landscapes, plants and trees which are durable and always of highest quality no matter the weather. If this sounds like something you're interested in, then keep reading!

How To Choose The Most Amazing Outdoors Landscaping Options For Your Landscapes?

When installing an outdoors landscape in your home or office space, it is necessary that you choose the correct landscaping products. There are countless different brands in the market that sellvarioustypes of artificial landscaping products. However,when selecting artificialplants and trees for your landscape, you need to ensure that the products you choose have certainvital and essential functional benefits. Here’s what you need to take into considerationwhen choosinglandscaping products for your outdoors landscapes:

The Landscaping Products Should Be Affordable And Cost Effective

One thing you must take into consideration when choosing the perfect landscaping products for your outdoorsettingsis that the faux trees, outdoor plastic flowers andartificial patio plants must be affordably priced. Affordable pricing ofthe faux landscaping products makes installing these products easy on the pocket and prevents a situation where you overshoot your budget. Further, you also need to ensure that there are wholesale lots of faux plants, flowers andtrees available with the seller or manufacturer of the artificial landscaping products, as you will require wholesale lots for large sized projects.

The Landscaping Products Should Be Realistic And Lifelike

Manypeople are apprehensive about installing artificial landscaping products in their outdoor landscapes because these faux plants, trees, andflowers often look very unrealistic and like plastic. Such unreal looking plants and trees can be an eyesore. When selecting landscape products, you need to ensure that the ones that you choose are very realistic and lifelike. The artificial plants, trees, andflowers should resemble their real counterparts in an identical manner. The lush green leaves and vibrantly colored flowers of the landscaping products should be such that they can fool even the most trained eye.

Take Into Consideration The Weight Of The Faux Landscaping Products

Another thing to keep in mind when making a selection of artificial flower arrangements for outdoorslandscapes, faux trees andhigh-endartificialplants is that these faux landscaping products must be extremely lightweight. Unlike real plants the faux plants should not be very heavy and difficult to move around or transport.Heavyartificial plants and landscaping products only end up causing hassles for the installer and require laborers and landscaping artists to complete the job.

The Plants And Trees Must Be Sturdy, Long Lasting And Durable

Another thing to keep in mind when choosing faux landscaping products for your outdoorslandscapes is that the plants must be sturdy, long-lastingand durable. These products should be able to withstand rough handling and should also be ableto be placed in a wide range of harsh outdoors settings. The products must not be weak and should not get easily damaged in transport or installation. They should last for years and years on end without spoiling and without requiring frequent replacement.

The Artificial Landscaping Products Must Be Weather Proof

The faux landscaping trees, plants andflowers should be weatherproof. Considering that these landscaping products are going to be installedin outdoors settings, they will be exposedto harsh weather conditions and different kinds of climates. Special UV stabilizers and high-grade color pigments must be injected into the raw materials of the plants to ensure that these landscaping products do not fade or lose their color when exposed to the harsh rays of the sun intropical climates. Further, the trees and plants should be such that they can tolerate rainfall and snowfall without spoiling or deteriorating.




Quick And Easy Delivery

When selecting artificial landscaping products for your outdoorlandscape, you need to ensure that the seller of these items guarantees a quick and easy delivery. The delivery should be made right to your doorstep or to the place where you are installing the landscape. Purchasing faux plants and trees that need to be picked up and self-transportedonly will turn out to be a hassle for you. Not only will it create a situation where your time is wasted,butalso the transport will end up being a real hassle for you.

The Cleaning Process Must Be Uncomplicated

In many cases, the artificial landscaping products require special cleaning processes that only end up being a real waste of time. Specialchemicals and cleaning agents are requiredto keep the plants, trees andflowers looking fresh and new. Getting plants that need such cleaning chemicals and agents will only end up being a hassle for you and create a situation where the overall maintenance becomes very complex. Thus, it is essential that you choose faux landscaping products that require only a spray of water of a wet duster to keep them looking clean and fresh.

Professional Advice Must Be Available

When purchasing faux landscaping products, you need to ensure that the seller has a team of professional architects, landscaping artists and interior decorators who can give you proper advice on installing the landscape in your home or office space. These professionals should be able to provide you conceptual drawing and rendered images of the spacewhere you wish to install the plants and trees and must also be able to help you with the installation process. Getting proper advice for accurate installation of landscapes is necessary to prevent mishaps and disasters. Thus, when selecting the plants from a particular brand,you need to make sure that the seller offers you the option of installation as well as professional advice from his expert team to make the job easier.

When making a selection forlandscaping products you need to keep these things in mind. Affordable faux trees and plants that are weatherproof, easy to maintain and clean, lightweight and long lasting are just what you need for a quickand hassle-freelandscape installation.

Thanks to permaleaf for sharing their insight and working with me in how to make your environment that much better, easier and less stressful. You can visit their website using the links included in this post!

A new way to access mental health professionals | AD

Below is some information that I think is hugely important to those who are in need of therapy or just someone to talk to. Talkspace provides a new way to do this and we both have corroborated to bring you this post below.

Talkspace: A new way to access mental health professionals

Founded in 2012 by Oren Frank, Talkspace provides a new service which allows users to connect with therapists and mental health professionals through a smartphone app.

Talkspace has been growing recently, boasting 500,000 users as of November 2017. The company recently struck a deal with medical insurance provider Magellan Health. Magellan Health wants to be able to provide app based therapy to its clients, and soon people who receive their health insurance through Magellan Health will be able to use the Talkspace service as part of their insurance plan.

By changing the way clients and therapists are able to interact, Talkspace has broken new ground in the world of mental health care. The platform allows professional therapists to reach out to clients through text throughout the day. It also allows users to interact with their therapists face to face using video chatting.

Talkspace users and therapists operate asynchronous to one another, allowing access to therapy at any time of day, which is especially useful for people who are too busy to visit a therapist’s office.

Talkspace is currently jumping the hurdles that come with offering online therapy, training their health professionals to be able to properly communicate the empathy required for therapy to work through the text messages.

Oren, the CEO of Talkspace and a former mental health professional, hopes that, among other things, the spread of online therapy will remove the harmful stigma that is associated with seeking and receiving mental health care.

Anxiety won't kill you

The other day I took on the biggest personal challenge of my life so far...I had a really important assessment day for my dream future career in the public service. I have wanted do this particular career for my whole entire life and as of yet, I don't know whether I have been successful...but I am not feeling too confident. Needless to say it was one of the most nerve-racking situations of my life, if not - the most nerve wracking. I didn't feel too nervous for the actual day, it came over me more when I started the first exam.  

The assessment comprised of many different tasks, to which the first one led to me panicking mainly because it was the first task of the day and I didn't know what to expect. But, I tried to not let this affect my future progress because I had a long day ahead of me. As time went on, the anxiety reduced. However the two biggest tasks; the interview and the role-play were looming and even though I was there in the building every inch of my body was telling me to run and that there was no possible way for me to get through it. It came down to the role-play and I can honestly say that at that moment, stood outside the door and waiting for the buzzer was the most nerve wracking experience of my life or at least it felt like it at the time. If you've been a reader for a long time, you'll know that I have had anxiety for many years and I used to have a severity of anxiety that meant I couldn't leave the house and if I came anywhere near it, I would have a complete, out of control, meltdown and panic. In that moment standing outside of that door however, I had that feeling of wanting to run away. My heart was in my throat and it was a type of anxiety I don't think I have ever felt before. I think I felt such a way because usually by that point of severity of anxiety, it would've been expressed in a panic attack. But at that moment I couldn't. I was surrounded by other candidates, officers, actors and assessors. It was not the time and it took everything for me to maintain my composure. As a result I felt a type of severe anxiety that couldn't have any release and in that way, I just had to let it wash over me and it was exactly that. I literally felt the anxiety wash over and through me rather then letting it build up in tension. It's almost difficult to explain, but because I couldn't do anything to reduce it, I just had to make peace with it in some way. 

Knowing that I went through a situation of extreme anxiety and rather than running away like I always used to do, I stuck with it. It surprised me and I am extremely proud that I managed to do it. I'm not sure I could experience a level of anxiety much higher which provides me with the confidence that I can face many more challenges than I first ever thought I could. It just reinstated to me that if you think about it, you have survived every day so far, even those you thought you could never make it through.