Longtime South Floridians know the August daytime drill: Move as quickly as possible from the air-conditioned comfort of the indoors to the air-conditioned comfort of your car. On most 90-plus-degree ...

‘Ecotherapy’ might be one promising form of mental health treatment. Patrizia Tilly/ Shutterstock Although definitions of ecotherapy vary, most agree it’s a regular, structured activity that is: ...

Midway through my second ecotherapy session, I was climbing a muddy hill and trying to articulate a particular brand of climate-change-induced loneliness when I heard a squawk. Stopping abruptly on ...

Telling someone with a mental health issue to "spend more time outside" is often viewed as inherently unhelpful. But it turns out there is some truth to the retort. Ecotherapy is being used as a ...

As many as one in six adults experience mental health problems like depression or anxiety every week. And not only is mental ill-health one of the most common causes of disease worldwide — it’s also ...

“Join me on a dog walk,” I said to my kids one afternoon. They sighed as if I had suggested they spend the day memorizing the library’s card catalog system. But their moods lightened once we were ...

Backpacking, biking, soil-touching, meditating on nature, standing in a garden in the rain: The list of simple acts deemed to help restore essential balance among body, mind and environment is long.

For many patients, like Lauren Huddle, 31, a big dose of Mother Nature is exactly what she needs after a stressful day. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles ...

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – May is Mental Health Awareness Month and today is CBS' Mental Health Action Day. So what does that mean? We're looking for ways to take charge of our own do the same. One ...

We’re experiencing disastrous climatic events because we treat the land – metaphorically speaking – like dirt. Nature’s ecosystems regulate climate. In turn, the well-being of all nature, ourselves ...

Every few months my daughter’s public elementary school, like schools all around the country, practices emergency lockdown measures. “If there’s a bear outside, we go into our closet and turn off the ...