Stephen Leahy is an award-winning international environmental journalist with over 25 years of experience in the field. His work has been published in a wide range of prestigious publications around the world, including National Geographic, The Guardian, Vice, New Scientist, Maclean’s, Al Jazeera, and many others. Leahy’s journalism focuses on critical environmental issues such as […]
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“The Open Air Life” with Sweden’s Linda Akeson-McGurk
2:09 Today my guest is Linda Åkeson McGurk is a Swedish American writer and author of The Open-Air Life and the bestselling parenting memoir There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather.She is a passionate advocate for the Nordic outdoor tradition friluftsliv and runs the blog Rain or Shine Mamma, where she shares tips and inspiration […]
Why You Are Even More Beautiful/Handsome When You Are Outside in Green Space
A recent pleasant surprise for me and something I want to thank you for ….This podcast, Your Outside Mindset is now in the top 5% most popular shows out of 3.2 million podcasts globally. Thank you to each one of you in 56 countries for listening and sharing Your Outside Mindset podcast episodes. Now I […]
What Surprised Me at My Son’s Wedding This Summer
In this solo episode today, I want to share something that happened to me at my son Max’s wedding to Sarah – which took me by surprise and made me step back and revaluate who else needs to hear the message I am sharing in this podcast. So let me take you to the big […]
Outsmart Your Pain with Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD
Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD is a former physician and an internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. She is passionate about translating ancient wisdom teachings into accessible and applicable modern-day language. She aims to live from the heart informed by the brain and inspires her students to explore the same. She is the author of […]
Dr. Patrycja Matusik, Physician-Radiologist: HRV and Systemic Lupus
Dr. Patrycja Matusik is a physician-radiologist at University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. She completed her medicine degree and PhD at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In her work she focuses primarily on cardiovascular imaging, lung diseases and neuroimaging. In her scientific work, one of the main directions is heart rate variability (HRV). She went to the […]
K Tselios, MD, McMaster University: “Why are lupus patients are 50% more likely to have heart attacks than people without lupus?”
Dr. Tselios is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology at McMaster University since 2021. He completed his basic training and PhD in Greece and came to Canada in 2014 where he worked as a post-doc fellow with the University of Toronto Lupus Clinic. His main clinical and research interest is […]
How Knowing My Heart Rate Variability or HRV Became A Game Changer For Me as a Lupus Patient
Host Verla FortierVerla’s website https://treesmendus.com Podcast Time stamp: 03:00 My lupus diagnosis04:00 Green space research changed everything04:48 Sudden cardiac death of my best friend05:40 Take 3 minutes outside in green space06:27 HRV not captured on bedside heart monitors06:50 What is HRV07:24 Episode #30 Optimize Your Heart Rate is about resting heart rate 08:11 High HRV08:18 […]
Ernesto Rodriguez: Nature Images In Hospitals and Classrooms
Ernesto Rodriguez, Executive Director Nature In The Classroom (tree mural ceilings) and in hospitals Sereneview (nature mural hospital curtains). Shownote Timeline 3:45 Ernesto grew up in Cuba, grandfather a renown muralist 6:30 Visited his friend in hospital (got the creeps). Then went to assignment in the Redwood Forest. As he was waiting for the light […]
Michelle Olson, Social Gerontologist Combines Expressive Arts with Outdoor Therapy for Dementia Care
Michelle Olson, PhD, LCAT, ATR-BC, ACC/MC Founder, Executive Director www.evergreenminds.org Verla’s website https://treesmendus.com New book Optimize Your Heart Rate: BalanceYour Mind and Body With Green Space. Previous book Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness Your Outside Mindset Podcast Interview Episode #34 with Michelle Olson Time line: 1:19 Michelle Olson is […]