"Necessity is the mother of invention."
Since You Are a Gardener® was published in 2017, several new programs have since blossomed in efforts help empower kids, families and educators with the vocabulary and tools from the book.
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AUTHOR'S INSPIRATION
Meet Shanna Truffini
When Shanna Truffini's daughter Anna was only 7 years old, she was diagnosed with 'anticipatory anxiety'. In efforts to help her daughter she tried everything from therapy to homeopathic remedies, but she still could not get to the root of her daughter's emotions. It wasn't until one day a friend of hers compared stress and anxiety to 'watering your weeds'. This is when she realized that Anna was 'watering her weeds' instead of 'watering her flowers', focusing on the negative feelings and thoughts instead of the positive. This is how the You Are a Gardener® seeds were planted.
Creating a new narrative for her family to talk about their feelings and emotions opened the lines of communication and gradually Anna was able to spend more time 'pulling her weeds' to make more room for her flowers". What started out as a book for her family has now flourished into an entire platform dedicated to helping families and educators encourage the social and emotional well-being of young children. "Plant your seeds, pull your weeds and enjoy the flowers along the way. You are a gardener. "
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