Have you ever had ecotherapy?

Question 1

Tonic

Answer 1

A tonic is sth that makes you feel happier & healthier.
Tonic can be a fizzy drink you mix with an alcoholic drink.

What do you do to cheer yourself up? Having a walk usually helps especially of it’s in the countryside. Being in all green open spaces can certainly help us relax & de-stress. Getting back to nature can be a tonic when you’re feeling down.
I’ll drink to that!

Question 2

Ecotherapy

Answer 2

Seeing or even hugging trees is a form of therapy. They describe ecotherapy as a formal type of treatment which involves doing outdoor activities in nature, such as outdoor yoga, or horticulture- another name for gardening. It doesn’t involve taking medication, but instead … .

Connecting with the natural world is particularly beneficial to people with mental health issue such as clinical depression, & it’s sth that’s being called ecotherapy.

Question 3

Tool

Answer 3

Sth that can be used to achieve sth else.

I often think of it as another tool in the therapist’s toolbox.
It’s not a panacea, it’s not going to erase pain or grief.

Question 4

Panacea

Answer 4

Sth that will solve everything.

How ecotherapy can help?
It’s not a panacea, it’s not going to erase pain or grief. Traditionally therapy has stopped @ the urban boundary. Ecotherapy can take on many forms- doing art in the forest or running on the beach are all therapeutic.

Question 5

Therapeutic

Answer 5

Therapeutic, are things that make you feel better or healthier.

Ecotherapy can take on any forms- doing art in the forest, running on the beach are all therapeutic.
What is it about the outdoors that affect us? Our busy brains ae always on gaurd, but when we get into nature it gets a break.

Question 6

Dose

Answer 6

A dose/dash is an amount of sth.

The negative symptoms of urban life can benefit from a dose of nature.
Biophilia, very briefly, is really an innate positive response that people have with life & life-like features. If we are exposed to the natural elements.

Question 7

Biophilia

Answer 7

Biophilia, which is a passion for or empathy with the natural world & living things.
Biophilia is innate, which means is a quality that you’re born with.

I have an innate quality to present programme.
Biphilia, very briefly, is an innate positive response that people have with life & life-like features.