This is Rock Creek Park. It's an unexpected stretch of glorious nature in noisy and crowded Washington, D.C.

It's more than twice the size of New York Central Park, and it's a great place to spend some

time alone thinking or taking a walk and talk with a friend, maybe go for a hike or a run.

I'm here to meet journalist and author Florence Williams.

I've been wanting to chat since I read her book, The Nature Fix.

The subtitle is why nature makes us happier, healthier, The Nature Fix. The subtitle is Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthy, and More Creative.

And it illuminated the science of why I felt so good post-divorce, exploring my new hometowns, parks,

and wooded walking paths.

Florence's latest book covers a related topic.

We'll talk about what she went through and what we can all learn from it on this episode of Dating While Gray, The Grown O' Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships.

I'm Laura Stasi.

I'm Laura Stasi. Florence Williams' latest book is Heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey.

She wrote it after her long marriage came to a sudden

end, sparking an emotional and physical health crisis. In the beginning of Florence's book,

she writes that one of the first stages of heartbreak is, quote, feeling stunned, even if you

shouldn't have been.

I met the man who would be my husband my first day of college.

So I was 18 years old.

We dated for seven years.

We got married.

We were married for 25 years, two children.

And then one day, seemingly out of the blue, he handed me his phone to look at an email from his brother. And only there was a different email on his phone. And it was a message

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