Let’s Try These 2 Outdoor Experiments to Get Us Through Gross, Hard Winter (Outdoor Diary)
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If the deep, dark winter and cold are hitting you like a ton of bricks just like they are hitting me, it might be time to stand back and remember what you’ve done in the past that can boost your mood this time of year. It’s OK to say you hate the darkness and winter weather. Saying it out loud helps me move through it. But what isn’t going to help me is giving up and hating it from my couch. So to fight back I’m trying a pair new outdoor habit experiments to see if they can help my mood and get me through the dark months. Learn more in this episode. Connect with this episode: A Humans Outside episode about Seasonal Depression (SAD) More about the “one big adventure, one little adventure” idea with Laura Vanderkam Join the Humans Outside Challenge Follow Humans Outside on Instagram Follow Humans Outside on Facebook Some of the good stuff: [:35] We’ve got the outdoor blahs [1:00] Oh, hi seasonal depression [3:00] Let’s just acknowledge that everything actually is terrible [3:39] Busting me out of this mood in two parts [3:54] Chasing daylight [5:20] One big adventure, one little adventure
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