Mother Nature, the healer

here is a lot going on in the world right now and sometimes it can feel like there’s no escape. We have 24-hour news channels alerting us at every time of the day to the horrors of the world and we carry around little devices in our pockets that constantly ping with the next bad news story. It isn’t just the news that affects us either, the endless scroll of social media presents its own set of challenges. By exposing ourselves to constant information in the form of images, videos and text, for hours a day, we’re simply exhausting ourselves and adding further issues. It can be easy to forget that social media is just a carefully curated snapshot of someone’s life and when you see a filtered image of that old friend seemingly