My book and workbook of course 🙂

For extra support when I am walking or cross country skiing I use these wool support socks under my battery heated socks or on their own on days that are not too cold. They are pretty warm.

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The handles are different than other poles. The handle shape allows for extra propelling forward power.

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Take Back Your Outside Mindset Workbook: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, And Control Your Chronic Illness

Do you struggle with low energy or poor memory? Discover the simple antidote for bringing control back to your life.

Do you suffer from a chronic disease? Do you worry about your brain deteriorating with old age? Are your emotions getting the better of you? Retired Professor of Nursing Verla Fortier suffered for years with a debilitating systemic lupus diagnosis that she transformed, with some remarkable research, into the restorative power of outdoor greenery. Now she’ll show you how just a few hours every month spent in Mother Nature’s backyard can completely rejuvenate your life.

Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, and Control Chronic Illness is a well-researched, practical guide to employing exposure to trees, shrubs, plants, and grass as a powerful remedy. With simple directed activities, Professor Fortier takes you through the science of improving your health using the great outdoors. You’ll learn how increasing time spent out of the house will make you feel renewed like you’re on a permanent vacation.

In Take Back Your Outside Mindset, you’ll discover:

• The specific peer-reviewed evidence showing the potential of open-air healing and how it improves longevity
• How many hours and times per week you should get out into green areas to maximize your health
• Why being among plants shifts your nervous system into a more relaxed state
• Strategies to shift your mindset from fear of failure to necessary stepping stones for progress
• More than a hundred things to do outdoors, practical action steps in every chapter, a companion workbook, and much, much more!

Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, and Control Chronic Illness is an innovative approach to reclaiming your health out-of-doors. If you like alternative approaches, scientific evidence, and naturally occurring free resources, then you’ll love Professor Verla Fortier’s liberating book.

 

Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, and Control Your Chronic Illness (Audible Audio Edition)

After a 40-year career as a nurse and nursing professor, Verla finds that as more diseases are added to her systemic lupus diagnosis, her fears multiply. For the first year, she stays inside her home trying to get better and be the perfect patient.

When this does not work, she takes a sharp left turn into what trees, shrubs, and grass can do for her. When she applies what she finds to her own situation, it works. Then she finds the research too good not to share.

This book and companion workbook show you that by spending as little as five hours a month close to trees, shrubs, and grass, puts you back in the driver’s seat of your thoughts, emotions, life span, memory, attention, and your chronic illness.

Do you feel like you are too busy or too tired to go outside?

Here is just a taste of how to use green space as your miracle drug:

1) Tree time dosages and locations as recommended by peer reviewed science

2) Ways of noticing when you are outside to enhance the ability of outside green space to improve your short and long term memory, improve your problem solving abilities, and your concentration

3) Words that work for you outside to free your mind for whatever you want to do.

Tap into your potential to change your life by using green space as a tool to feel better in the moment and to buffer yourself against future memory loss, early death, and symptom severity.

You have more control than you think you do. And this way is free and remarkably easy.