Episode 37—Out in the Darkness

In episode 37 of the nature therapy podcast I go outside at night and ponder on how some very basic, primal (or socially conditioned?) feelings arise when the Earth rotates away from sunlight each day.

For this ecotherapy podcast, I went into my garden at night. I looked over the back wall at the fields and hills, and I listened to the owls (unfortunately you can’t hear them on the podcast….the modest things didn’t want to be recorded). I pondered on how safe I feel here, in my garden, compared to an experience I had recently when I went to my local forest after dark. At times, it was utterly terrifying. When was the last time you deliberately went outside at night? That's what we will explore today.