Brain on Nature
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In 2015, Sarah Allely was hit by a car while riding her bike. She suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, and in the ensuing weeks and months, she found it impossible to function normally.
Only one thing seemed to help: spending time in nature.
Now, several years later, Sarah has turned her experience into a documentary podcast series called Brain on Nature. On this episode, we share an excerpt from her show and talk with her about why nature is so important for the brain — for all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden, and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:09.5 | First off, if you're listening in the Rocky Mountain region, you might be interested in a podcast called Colorado Edition. |
| 0:17.1 | It's a production of KUNC, the public radio station in Greeley, and it's our sponsor for this episode. |
| 0:24.6 | Colorado Edition brings you the context behind the news of the day, and a look at the people, places, and things that make the centennial state unique. |
| 0:33.7 | In less than 30 minutes, they'll get you up to speed on the most important news, |
| 0:38.1 | plus they'll bring you a deeper look at the stories that matter in Colorado communities. |
| 0:43.2 | And because life is a mix of work and play, they also explore the lighter side of news, |
| 0:48.9 | highlighting culture, the arts, and the outdoors across the mountain west. |
| 0:54.1 | Colorado edition airs Monday through Thursday evenings at 6.30 on KUNC. |
| 0:59.4 | And you can also find the show wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:09.1 | Today we're bringing you a special guest episode from an Australian podcast called Brain on Nature. |
| 1:15.6 | Brain on Nature is about how going out into the natural world changed one woman's brain. |
| 1:22.6 | It's a serial show. In other words, you're supposed to start with episode one and listen sequentially. |
| 1:28.8 | We're actually going to play you episode two today. But don't worry. We'll first have a chat with the show's host so you'll know exactly what's going on. |
| 1:43.5 | So my name's Sarah Allerly and I live in Sydney, Australia, but I'm originally from New Zealand. |
| 1:49.4 | So how did this podcast come about? |
| 1:53.6 | So in 2015, I was knocked off my bike by car and suffered a mild traumatic brain injury. |
| 2:04.7 | And I initially didn't know what was happening. |
| 2:13.0 | And I just spent several months really struggling with sounds particularly. Like I really, |
| 2:19.3 | everything was at the same volume. And so I couldn't, I found it very difficult to sit in a room full of people, couldn't go to a, sit in a cafe or a bar or anything noisy like that, just even walking into my daughter's school to drop them off and pick them up, I found the playground sounds just unbearable and it was like, it was almost like the way when I record on my audio recorder |
| 2:37.0 | and everything sort of picks up at the same volume. |
| 2:39.0 | It was like my brain was doing that. |
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