Your Outside Mindset

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My new book is here on Amazon: Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance  Your  Mind and Body With Green  Space Amazon.com  Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk Complete show notes: https://treesmendus.com You might think that diet and exercise are the best ways to avoid a heart attack.  And yes that research is well understood. But this another way.  This is to be aware of the environments that can either help or harm...

https://treesmendus.com for  transcript of this episode.  For more evidence- based research and tips please check out my book and workbook Take Back Your  Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness.    University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute https://enviromeinstitute.com/ Follow @UofLEnvirome on Twitter https://twitter.com/UofLEnvirome Pick...

Anna Cooper Reid tells us that PaRx is breaking ground as Canada's first national, evidence-based nature prescription program. Two hours a week is all it takes. The following notes the minute mark for points in our conversation: 6  minute mark:  PaRx program what it is.  Evidence based and national (Canada) 9  minute mark:  How evidence will help further research: unique provider code & p...

 I was thrown for a loop this summer by a diagnosis of breast cancer. Here is my story: I felt a lump in my breast, it was surgically removed. When  we got the pathology report back it showed that I  had a form  of cancer called  Ductal Carcioma In Situ (DCIS) which means the cancer is contained in ducts in the breast. Just the  word cancer scares everyone. And in a split second, I  had to make th...

This time instead of a podcast guest,  I  am going to  talk  about my own situation. I have not even tried to book any more podcast guests. My body and my mind have been telling me that I need to take a break and it is time for me  to  listen. When I started this podcast a year ago, I was in the middle of writing a book about my best friend Leslie who died suddenly. I wanted to know if there was s...

Professor Rachel Buxton is  a conservation scientist at Carleton University.   Website: https://rachelbuxton.wordpress.com Twitter: @buxton_rachel Verla Fortier's transcript of this episode visit    treesmendus.com. Verla Fortier's  book and workbook: Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, and Control Your Chronic Illness Rachel Buxton:  For me what was the most s...

Paula Frizzell    IG and Facebook:  paulacfrizzell  We met on IG  when you tagged me on your beautiful IG post of a bird saying you’d read my book. I was delighted. Please tell us your story.  Well  my story is a long one but a positive one about what  trees,  nature, and mindfulness can do in  our lives.   Your book, Take Back Your Outside Mindset   spoke to me and I devoured it, then ordered mor...

Episode #23  Patricia Pearsell <journeytobetterhealth1@gmail.com Patricia Pearsell on Facebook Episode transcript: https://treesmendus.com My dear friend Stacy had given me a copy of Take Back Your Outside Mindset for Christmas in 2019. She always puts quite a bit of thought into what she chooses to give as gifts. She knows how much I enjoy being outside in my yard, or camping, or hiking.  The...

 Episode # 22 Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. Her numerous academic honors include four Distinguished Scientist Awards and The Liberty Science Genius Award. Her books written for academic and popular readers include:  Mindfulness Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and The Power of Possibility  On Becoming An Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Min...

Episode #21 Ceremonies to our people has always been important because ceremony is an act of gratitude to the Spirit .. and an  act of gratitude to the Land. Because everything we do and receive, we recognize we have to reciprocate by offering a simple word and prayer of gratitude  … and say "thank you Creator,  that you have given me this breath of life here on earth again today” “thank you...

Episode #20   An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honorary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels:...

Episode # 19  Alice is a Senior Research Associate working in the Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Alice is a geographer and she is interested in understanding the health implications of how we interact with the environment around us. Recently, she has been exploring the role that neighbourhood green space may play in protecting people from certain health outcomes...

Episode # 18 Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you Richard Taylor, Professor,  Physics Department Head at University of Oregon. His interests are: Nanoelectronics, retinal implants, solar cells, and the visual science of fractals.  Richard Taylor specializes in experimental condensed matter and biophysics. He is the Director of Fractals Research and head of the Fractals Research Laboratory a...

Episode 17   Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you my sister Gail Fortier, a visual artist and my partner Phil Hallford, a retired college professor in social sciences. Today they are going to talk to us about using nordic walking poles – they look kind of like ski poles.    Hi Gail what compelled you to start using the poles?    Well you spoke about them a lot and I was resistant until I ha...

Episode 16 Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you Ken Wu. Ken is the executive director of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance , a new national Canadian conservation organization advocating the science-based protection of native ecosystems, seeking to engage non-traditional allies of the environmental movement, and working to support Indigenous Protected Areas. He was previously the co-founder...

Episode 15 In this episode psychotherapist and Zestful Aging Podcast Host talks about her reasons for getting outside and how she helps her clients to take an "aesthetic walk" outside. Nicole says by taking outside breaks you are respecting  and resting  your brain -- so you can feel better mentally and physically. Nicole Christina is the host of Zestful Aging Podcast, an interview show...

Podcast Episode #14 For complete transcript of this episode please visit my website Treesmendus.com Visit Joanne Maloof at oldgrowthforest.net Joan's book and my book . Let’s talk about what an old growth forest is, and how this fits with  the  raging forest fires in Oregon and Washington as we speak.  Yes if you think of the planet earth, at least  a third of it is  covered in forest. With t...

Episode #13 Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you Joe Casey and Denis Wuestman of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast. Joe, Denis, and their guests focus on the “changing nature of retirement today and the non-financial aspects of a successful retirement transition.” On their Retirement Wisdom podcast they talk to leading experts in the field, and the stories of people who have created interesting...

Episode 12 Sarah Spencer lives in the National Forest in Derbyshire in the centre of the UK with her family, and loves growing vegetables, fruit and flowers. She manages a woodland that she designed and planted using permaculture design. Sarah holds qualifications in permaculture and forest school. Sarah is the author of Think Like A Tree: The Natural Principles Guide to Life.  Would you please te...

Episode 11 Mark Hume is a former national correspondent for The Globe and Mail and is the author of five natural history books. His latest, Trout School - Lessons from a Fly-fishing Master, came out last year and he is currently working on a book to be published in the fall of 2021. Mark has fly fished in BC for 50 years and lives in Vancouver with his life-long partner, famed science writer, Marg...

Episode 10 Hi this is Verla Fortier from Your Outside Mindset Show where I shine a light on aging adults who may have a chronic illness, and who are taking back their outside mindset by looking or going outside to spend time close to trees, shrubs, and plants. I started this podcast for 2 reasons: I help people to recognize that going outside is not just a nice thing to do, but it can save your li...

Podcast Episode #009  I first heard Micheal Bond on a CBC radio program here in Canada called Spark. He was talking about his new book From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way. I immediately ordered his book and introduced me to new ways of thinking about how we find our way around, and how we get lost, and how this affects us. He looks at brain function, memory, demen...

Episode #008 The year after her retirement from a management position, Janet was diagnosed with a terminal condition: brain cancer. Janet wants to share  her story, "not because I want sympathy, because I feel well supported, but because sharing my journey I might help someone else." As Janet says, "there is not a family that is not touched by cancer so she  hopes that by sharing he...

Episode # 007 DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author, whose work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her books include The Sweetness of a Simple Life , The Global Forest , Arboretum Borealis , Arboretum America --which won the National Arbor Day Foundation Award for exemplary educational wo...