242: Happiness Habits for Teens: Nature

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What makes teens happy? Happiness found in nature can finally be explained by science. New research and studies are showing that teens who spend time outside in nature are happier. In this episode I talk about what nature does to the human brain and how to get the benefits from being outside in your teen years. https://www.theteenlifeschool.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.
0:11.8	The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of
0:19.8	frustration. I am here to help you along your
0:23.6	teen journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.
0:31.5	Welcome to the podcast this week. How's it going? How are all of you doing? This week, I am
0:37.3	continuing our happiness
0:39.2	habits for teens series. Last week, we talked about being grateful and why being grateful
0:44.7	makes you happy. And I wanted to do these next few episodes to focus on things that you can do
0:50.8	in order to feel happy because many times happiness, it doesn't just happen. It requires
0:56.3	work on our part to be happy and find things in our lives that make us happy. So I want you to think,
1:03.3	how happy are you right now? How happy are you on a regular day-to-day basis? If you are not feeling
1:10.7	as happy as you want to be,
1:12.7	then hopefully this series of episodes will help encourage you to take some action to
1:18.5	proactively doing things and developing habits that make you more happy. And none of these
1:25.0	things that I'm going to be talking to you guys about are rocket science or
1:28.9	super hard. They're just really easy little habits that you can add into your daily lives that will
1:34.3	help increase your happiness. Today I wanted to talk about nature and being outside. Happy people
1:41.0	spend time outside and in nature. I have found for myself especially that i need to be
1:47.1	outside every single day doing something i love to run and so many times i'll go for a run outside
1:53.9	and that just makes me feel happy and i think being outside is something that you as teens are
1:59.3	deliberately going to have to be more purposeful about
2:03.4	just because we are spending more and more time indoors and less time outside in nature.
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