National parks are places for physical and mental wellness. These beautiful places have the power to motivate, inspire, rejuvenate, and uplift spirits. With our mental health and wellness page, we feature national parks content that’ll hopefully do the same for you.
I urge you to find hope in small, daily ways. Put something on your calendar this week that exists just for you. Get out the map and plan a national park hike or visit one of the hundreds of national park historic sites in the next month if possible. Hope weaves into our stress resiliency by lifting our spirits in hectic times. Do not wait for it to show up. Build it up in meaningful ways and support others’ hopes whenever possible.
So, you’ve booked your next trip to a national park, and you want to make sure you get the full experience, right? We owe it to ourselves, and to these incredible lands, to make our visits count. Each visit is an opportunity to educate, inspire, and support our holistic well-being.
“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so there’s no better time to explore our intrinsic connection to Earth’s natural spaces and their life enhancing effects on our holistic well-being. Over the past 100 years or so, humans have gradually slipped away from those connections; we have exchanged a life reliant on the land for one of convenience in urban settings, and we’re… Read More
