Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – Kathleen Lockyer: The Science of Nature Connection
Adult ADHD ADD Tips and SupportShow Notes
Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast - Kathleen Lockyer: The Science of Nature Connection. This podcast is an audio companion to the book "The Drummer and the Great Mountain - A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD."
In this episode, we're joined by occupational therapist Kathleen Lockyer. Kathleen has spent her career studying the effects of nature connection on childhood development. We will be discussing the science of nature connection and how modern humans are literally "losing our senses." What is nature connection? What power does it have to reduce ADHD symptoms? And, how can it reconnect our nervous system to what it was really built for?
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Sensory Scaping (Free PDF)
RX Outside
The Nature-Led Community
Further Reading on Nature Connection
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
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