Connecting with nature this Mental Health Awareness Week
The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 is Connecting with Nature. Nature is central to our psychological and emotional health. It’s almost impossible to realise good mental health without a connection to the natural world. For most of human history, we lived as part of nature. It is only in the last five generations that so many of us have lived and worked in a context that is largely separated from nature. I recently moved to the beautiful village of Gainford in Cou