Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Eridge. I am the founder of 1,000

hours outside and I have a new friend here today. Rachel Autry, welcome. Thank you so much for having me.

I don't know if you know this. This is very full circle, very cool, but we have done the 1,000

hour challenge, a thousand hour outside challenge. That is full circle. I know.

I love that.

And you talk a lot about nature in your book. Actually, you were talking about taking your meals outside. And I was like, that's my type of woman. That's what we do. When at first I was like, a thousand hours outside, dead gum. Like that's so much. And then I started thinking about it. And I was like, I think I maybe need to give myself a bit more credit.

We do do picnics a lot, right? Like we do go on walks a lot. Like those kinds of things, they help and they add up so quickly. So now we're huge fans of everything that you're doing. This is so fun. That's incredible. I really noticed how many nature references were in your book. It's a new book. It's called Love Your Life, even when you don't like it all the time.

It came out new book. It's called Love Your Life, Even When You Don't Like It All The Time, It Came out in August, A Realistic Guide to Unlocking Joy in Life's Messy, Mundane, and magnificent moments. And you talked about getting out for your walks, and you talked about eating outside. And those things do add up. And a thousand hours, people say that so much, Rachel. It seems like so much time.

But up until the 90s, it was the normal amount of time. Because kids played outside. You know,

they walked to school. They had long recess. They had a little bit of time in the afternoon.

They played outside on the weekends. That's kind of what it was. And so just by making some of

those small changes like eating your picnic out,

you know, in the grass or out on your balcony or whatever you have really does. Or having an

extended family beach trip once a year. I mean, all of those hours add up. So this book is about,

okay, like, all right, I've got a likable life mostly, but I don't really like it right now.

And you did such a fantastic job painting and portraying the days where you're just kind of like,

ugh.

We're like, this is not that big of a deal.

And I try and think, like, will I remember this in five years?

Probably not. but in the

moment so okay so I let me kick off with one because you talk about three kinds of hard days

that was really good it's really good to paint a picture of the different types of hard days

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