Psychologies

Assessing your relationship with nature

“You have to plan and make time to get into nature; not everybody has it on the doorstep”

Before you dust off your hiking boots or head to the garden centre to buy compost, it’s a good idea to pause and take some time to think about what nature means to you. This is about realising what your current connection with nature is, what you feel you’re missing, and any barriers that get in the way.

‘With the impact of the pandemic particularly, we’re really stuck in a digital world,’ explains Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo. ‘We’ve learnt to socialise more online, and a lot of us are doing it more often. We’ve lost

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