a new vitamin

Recently I was feeling stretched. Not necessarily stressed, but stretched - thin. I had a lot of commitments for my daughter’s extracurriculars, work, house stuff, I was working on a project, and then the usual stuff - making sure the dog was walked, the horse was loved and exercised etc. I was definitely stretched … 

I opened up and shared to a good friend about it, and she observed I hadn’t been to the woods in awhile and suggested I go. It was a great suggestion for a lot of reasons, but getting to the woods with so many other things on my plate felt like it was going to stretch me even thinner :/ plus, I was still taking time for myself even with my busy schedule. Time alone, time doing yoga, going to the gym… etc etc. 

But somehow, as sometimes happens, the universe set me up to get exactly what I needed, even when I didn’t necessarily know how to make that happen; all I had to do was show up and say yes. 

Here’s how it happened: 

That conversation with my friend happened on a Sunday - shortly after that (still on the Sunday), my first client on Monday messaged to let me know she was sick and wouldn’t be able to make it to her appmt, and could we please reschedule? 

Of course I said yes, and thought nothing else of it, until Monday morning when I all of a sudden had enough time, at just the right time of day (read: when it was light out ) to get to the woods! 

So I did. 

It wasn’t a long walk, and it wasn’t a particularly epic walk, and I didn’t have any crazy insights or anything… it just … felt good. Like really good. And it was exactly what I needed. 

I didn’t need a revolution (or a revelation), I just needed a walk in the woods … because there’s something about nature (that beautiful Vitamin N!) that we need. And we can’t really get whatever it is it gives us, anywhere else (Trust me, like I said I was still doing all the good stuff, but somehow I couldn’t nourish myself out of it with anything but nature itself ) 

Anyway, all this to say, if you’re feeling stretched - or stressed, or down, or blue, or confused, or stuck, or malnourished, or anything like that, perhaps what you need can’t and won’t be found at the bottom of a supplement bottle (or wine bottle!), but instead is an infusion of a different sort…Vitamin N! maybe a walk in the woods, or near some water, is exactly what your soul needs!