In search of the calm response

As the world urbanises and people spend less time in regular contact with natural environments, city planners and other public policy decision makers are turning to research in psychology to help inform them of the relationship between exposure to nature and mental health.

Before Covid-19, you may not have described yourself as anxious. But increased home or financial stress, unsettled routines, work or school absence and lack of access to nature, can all contribute to our anxiety levels.

I had never really experienced anxiety, but