Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast world.

I'm Brooke McCallery.

Fast-paced world.

Fast-paced world, yeah, fast-world also.

Welcome to episode 232, where you speak to Florence Williams, the author of the Nature Fix.

I do.

In a perfectly aligned follow-up to March's experiment.

Nice, nice neat little bow on that experiment, this episode is.

So Florence's book, The Nature Fix, has been our book club book for March, our Instagram

book club, and I know a lot of you have already read it and commented

on how beautifully it tied into last month's experiment. And of course, I wanted to try and chat with

Florence as we were learning about ourselves and nature and the role that it had on our happiness.

And it was wonderful. So you spoke to Florence about halfway

through our experiment last month. Did this conversation influence the rest of the experiment for

you? Did it change you? Did you get extra clarity from it? That's a good question. I think I just

found myself more and more convinced of the importance of what we were doing.

You know, it kind of started out as a light experiment when we very first pitched it to each other.

It was like, oh, this was a nice thing to do. We're in the mountains.

We were like, this is going to be easy. Yeah. And as we began researching it and then as we

began actually experimenting with spending an hour a day outdoors, I started to realize not just how

nice to have this was, but how vital it was. And having spoken with Florence halfway through the experiment,

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