Episode 160: Stress and the Benefits of Being Outside (re-release)

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When I first made this show I could never have imagined how large a role both stress and getting outside would play in our lives in 2020.

In this episode I talk to science writer Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix, about how spending time outside can help lower our stress levels and allow us to gain perspective on daily problems. Most of us live and work in urban environments, spending hours a day in front of a screen. Nothing could be less natural. In this show we talk about how spending time outdoors can improve our lives in multiple ways, and how women can benefit even more than men.

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0:00.0	Better Help Online Therapy bought this 30 second ad to remind you right now, wherever you are, to unclench your jaw.
0:10.8	Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out.
0:20.3	Feels better, right?
0:21.9	That's 15 seconds of self-care.
0:24.9	Imagine what you could do with more.
0:27.4	Visit betterhelp.com forward slash random pod
0:30.5	for 10% off your first month of therapy.
0:33.8	No pressure.
0:35.0	Just help.
0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:41.8	Hi everyone, it's Ashley. This show is one I originally put out in 2017. Back then, I never could have
0:51.1	imagined that an episode about stress and the benefits of the outdoors
0:54.8	would be particularly relevant three years later during a pandemic.
1:00.0	But it does seem like perhaps this is a good time to re-release this one and be reminded of all the benefits nature can bring us.
1:08.2	The show will be back with new episodes in mid-September.
1:19.9	Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley
1:24.8	Milntight. This time, a show for summer. We all used to spend a lot more
1:31.1	time outside, and it's still one of the best ways to combat stress, particularly for women.
1:37.8	We are fully engaged with our sensory and perceptual systems, you know, in ways that make us feel alive and vital and healthy,
1:48.0	rather than being buffeted around by these expectations of how women are supposed to behave or look.
1:54.2	Coming up, how nature and being outside can help us manage life and work.
2:14.0	I am an urban person. I grew up in a city, I moved to another city for college, I worked in London for a few years, and then I moved to New York, the ultimate metropolis.
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