{"id":39864,"date":"2022-07-18T06:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39864"},"modified":"2022-07-18T06:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:09:38","slug":"get-outside-why-nature-is-so-good-for-our-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39864","title":{"rendered":"Get Outside: Why Nature Is So Good for our Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Forest_Floor-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Forest Floor\" width=\"577\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Forest_Floor-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Forest_Floor.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although people have long had an intrinsic sense that being connected to nature is good (even crucial) for our mental health, it took a while for scientific studies to catch up. But now, there\u2019s growing evidence of genuine benefits of time in nature for going outside. In fact, some doctors are even beginning to prescribe time in nature to prevent or treat mental illnesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chatowl.com\/nature-good-mental-health\/\">https:\/\/chatowl.com\/nature-good-mental-health\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although people have long had an intrinsic sense that being connected to nature is good (even crucial) for our mental health, it took a while for scientific studies to catch up. But now, there\u2019s growing evidence of genuine benefits of time in nature for going outside. In fact, some doctors are even beginning to prescribe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get Outside: Why Nature Is So Good for our Mental Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39866,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864\/revisions\/39866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}