Your Outside Mindset
Join retired nursing professor Verla Fortier as she shows you that going outside is not just a fun thing to do -- it can save your life. Verla shines the light on aging adults who may have chronic disease as she talks to green space scientists, forest bathing leaders, natural navigators, and all things in-between to get practical tips on how you can get the most out of your time spent close to trees, grass, and shrubs. If you want to live longer, prevent dementia, and control your chronic illness - you will love being a part of this conversation.
Episodes
52 episodes
Martin Moore-Ede MD PhD: The Light Doctor
For over 40 years, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has been a leading world expert on circadian clocks and the health problems caused by electric light at night. As a professor at Harvard Medical School (1975 – 1998), he led the team that located the supr...
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Episode 52
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49:42
Susan Allison-Dean, RN, MS Nature Nurse on "the connection piece with nature"
Susan Allison-Dean is a Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse and Certified Clinical Aromatherapy professional with over thirty years of experience in nursing. During the first half of her career, she practiced mainly as a Certified Wou...
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Episode 50
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49:42
Dr Jim Doty Tells You to Balance Your Nervous System to Manifest Your Goals
Dr James Doty say...
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Episode 49
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24:25
Dr Norman Farb Wants You to Test Drive Your Senses by "Sense Foraging"
This is Verla Fortier of your Outside Mindset show. This podcast is about taking back your outside mindset by exploring and practicing new ways of noticing when you are outside close to nature whether you live in the city or c...
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Episode 48
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57:11
Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley: Develop Your Tree Reading Skills
Tristan Gooley is a New York Times best selling author of
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Episode 47
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29:56
Get Intentional About Using Your Senses
Let’s Get Sensual: Get Intentional About Using Your Senses I read a good book recently titled “Better In Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation...
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Episode 46
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21:32
Managing Difficult Emotions As My Loved Ones Move Away
This solo podcast episode is about managing difficult emotions when loved ones move away. I am working on managing my emotions as both my kids who are Canadian settle in London England.The first things kind people might say to me is : oh...
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Episode 45
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18:21
Stephen Leahy Award Winning International Environmental Journalist: Good News in Climate Change
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...
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Episode 44
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48:07
"The Open Air Life" with Sweden's Linda Akeson-McGurk
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 Thi...
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Episode 43
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1:05:48
Why You Are Even More Beautiful/Handsome When You Are Outside in Green Space
What you might not know is that you will also be more beautiful or handsome to others when you are outside. When I saw an Instagram reel of my 20 something kids out in the countryside last weekend with their friends, I saw this. They were...
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Episode 42
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36:57
What Surprised Me at My Son's Wedding This Summer
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. F...
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Episode 41
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17:58
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 la...
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Episode 40
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48:29
Dr. Patrycja Matusik, physician-radiologist: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Lupus
Full Podcast Transcript at treesmendus.com Books written by podcast host Verla Fortier:
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Episode 39
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29:43
K Tselios, MD, McMaster University: Why are lupus patients 50% more likely to have a heart attack than people without lupus?"
For the full show notes of this episode visit website https://treesmendus.comVerla's new book
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Episode 38
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54:35
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.comVerla's new book
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Episode 37
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27:53
Michelle Schuman, The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Host Verla FortierVerla's website https://treesmendus.comVerla's new book
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Episode 36
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57:35
Ernesto Rodriguez: Nature Images In Hospitals and Classrooms
Host Verla FortierVerla's website https://treesmendus.comVerla's new book
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Episode 35
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42:49
Michelle Olson, Social Gerontologist Combines Expressive Arts with Outdoor Therapy for Dementia Care
Michelle Olson, PhD, LCAT, ATR-BC, ACC/MCFounder, Executive Director www.evergreenminds.org Verla's website https://treesmendus.c...
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Episode 34
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32:52
Dr. Bing Zhao: "Short term exposure (3 days or less) to air pollution increases risk of sudden cardiac arrest -- men and women over 65 yrs more susceptible."
Dr. Bing Zhao is a geriatric doctor in the first university of science and technology of China. This hospital is in Hefei, a city located in the east China with a population of more than 9 million. She completed her medicine degree ...
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Episode 33
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18:43
UK Researcher Andy Jones: "Green Space consistently provides 20% reduction in bad things, if we had a pill for that, we would take it."
Time stamp interview notes continued on my website: https://treesmendus.com My new book
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Episode 32
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42:34
Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space
My new book is here on Amazon: Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space
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Episode 30
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22:56
Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar: Your heart, tightly tied to your environment
https://treesmendus.com for transcript of this episode. For more evidence- based research and tips please check out my book and workbook
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Episode 29
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48:43
Anna Cooper Reed on Canada's Nature Prescription Program
Anna Cooper Reid tells us that PaRx is breaking ground as Canada's first national, evidence-based nature prescription program. Two hours a week is all it takes. The following notes the minute mark for points in our conversation:...
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Episode 28
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36:08