Q: Succulents grow well in arid climates and are easy to maintain. Look for succulents in your yard or at a local nursery and cut them at their stem. You can trim the ends of the plant's branches so that the plant survives, but you still get the materials for your wreath. Look for flowers or other eye-catching portions of the plants you have access to.  If nurseries around you don't have succulents, you can try purchasing one at a hardware or home and gardening store like Lowes or Home Depot.  Examples of succulent plants that would be ideal for a wreath include aeoniums, echeverias, crassulas, haworthias, aloes, and kalanchoes. You can purchase succulent clippings online as well.  Succulent plants store their water in their leaves instead of the roots and stem, which typically leads to thicker leaves. Lay out your plants on the floor to ensure that you have enough to cover the surface of your wreath. Configure them visually so you can get an idea of how they will look once attached to your wreath frame. Soaking your moss in a bucket of warm water will allow it to become rehydrated. Purchase sphagnum moss at a home and gardening or department store. Sphagnum moss absorbs water like a sponge and can keep your succulent wreath alive by providing water and nutrients to your clippings. You can purchase a wreath frame online or at a department store. If you want, you can also create your own wireframe using a wire coat hanger. Take your soaked sphagnum moss and wrap it around the metal in the wireframe. Squeeze the wet moss in the place to make it adhere. Do this around the entirety of the wreath frame. Wear gloves and clear out a free space when using moss. Poke holes around the wreath with a tool that is large enough for your plant's stems. Do this around the wreath in the spots that you want there to be flowers or plants. Lay your wreath flat on a table or other surface. Insert your succulent plant clippings into the holes that you made. To hold the plants together in place, you can use bobby pins or wrap thin wire around the plants and the underlying moss. Soak your wreath for 15 minutes once you are done placing your succulents into the moss. This will help saturate the stems of the succulents and extend the life of your wreath. After you clean off your work area, allow your succulent wreath to set for 6 to 8 weeks on a flat, waterproof surface. This will allow the succulent trimmings to grow roots and embed themselves within your moss. During this time, keep your succulents in an area that receives indirect sunlight. Make sure that during this time your wreath is laying out on a flat surface.
A: Take cuttings of succulents. Lay out your succulents in a pattern. Soak sphagnum moss in a bucket for 20 minutes. Wrap the moss around a wreath frame. Create planting holes with a pen or scissors. Insert your plants into the holes. Place your wreath in a basin of water. Allow your wreath to sit for 3 to 8 weeks.

Q: The term “emotional debt” is often used to describe emotions that we have never fully healed from and allow to play out repeatedly in our day to day lives. You should be honest with yourself about any past emotions that are still lingering, consciously breaking the patterns that you have developed as a response to those emotions, and step outside your comfort zone. This will allow you to be aware of how past emotions influence you and to move past them. You might think that your comfort zone protects you from bad feelings, but by staying there, you are letting those unpleasant emotions hold you back. When you step outside of it, you can take control over them. When some experience or person falls short of the expectations you place on them, it hurts. Remove as many expectations as you can from your life, and when you do make an expectation, keep it as broad and undefined as possible. This stops you from subjecting yourself to emotional pain for everything that doesn’t go exactly how you’d like it to. You can also change your expectations to be more realistic. For example, you expecting that today will be warm is much less likely to disappoint than expecting that today will be exactly 73 degrees Fahrenheit, breezy, and sunny. Keeping busy is shown to improve contentment. Deliberately choose activities that drive you toward your goals or somehow benefit you. Offering yourself incentives will help justify staying busy. It also allows you to pour your energy into work, working out, cleaning your house, etc., rather than seeking out emotional ties. Avoid letting people get too close or control you with promises, pleas, or apologies. Define the types of relationships you want to be in, and have only those relationships. Be in control of how invested you are in any given relationship. If you are overwhelmed by past traumas and cannot seem to let the emotion go, you may need the help of a professional psychologist. Issues like chronic depression or anxiety should not be ignored. Your therapist can help you decide what clinical approaches and/or medications might be appropriate to help you move past your emotional debt.
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Let go of your past emotions. Avoid setting specific expectations. Keep yourself busy. Keep relationships on your terms. Seek professional therapy.