May 20, 2026
In this WALK episode of ROOTED: A Podcast About Nature & Wellbeing, Susan Morgan Bailey reflects on her personal experience with stress, burnout, anxiety, and the role nature has played in helping her reconnect with herself.
Inspired by Mental Health Awareness Month and this year’s theme — More Good Days, Together — Susan explores how chronic stress can quietly become normalized, especially for high-functioning people who are used to pushing through.
In this episode:
- Susan shares her journey through near burnout, physical stress symptoms, and anxiety awareness
- explores how modern built and artificial environments affect the nervous system
- explains why time in nature helps the body soften and regulate
- introduces simple nature-based interventions that support wellbeing
- offers practical ways to reconnect through small “doses” of nature
From birdsong and nature snacks to walking the Camino in Spain, this episode is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and create more good days through small repeated moments of connection.
Nature is not presented as a cure-all or replacement for mental health support — but as one meaningful part of an ecosystem of care.
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