Why going outside is good for you, even when it's freezing

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  On a recent Thursday morning, I started my day with a walk in the woods.

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  So we're approaching a little bit of a steeper part and then it'll level out.

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  We're going to be puffing and puffing.

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  It has been very cold here in DC, so I've been having trouble getting myself outside,

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  even though I know it's so good for me.

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  But on this particular day, I was out here for work.

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  So tell me, first of all, actually, I'm going to have you introduce yourself just for the audio.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, hi.

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  I'm Jessica Maggotson.

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  So I'm a clinical psychologist and a professor at the University of Maryland and have been doing work for a couple of decades now looking at how we increase access to mental health care.

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  And over the past year, I've become extremely passionate about how we can do this outside.

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  When most of us think of therapy, we probably picture an office with a chair and a couch.

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  Or maybe even just a screen.

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  Virtual therapy sessions have become a lot more common in the past few years.

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  Jess Maggotson is part of a small but growing movement of psychologists who want to change that.

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  They want to take therapy outside.

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  There are a lot of benefits for clients to doing therapy outside,

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  but Jess believes there are also huge benefits for therapists who have been experiencing really high levels of burnout in the last few years.

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  As humans, we spend, it's 93% of our lives in worse.

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