In 2005, journalist and child advocate Richard Louv introduced the term "nature deficit disorder" in his groundbreaking book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. While not a medical diagnosis, nature deficit disorder describes something many of us feel but struggle to name: the human cost of becoming disconnected from the natural world. But there is a remedy, and it is called Green Time.

In our “always-on world”, rest has become revolutionary—especially for women. We've been conditioned to believe our worth is measured by productivity and constant availability. But what if the solution is not in doing more, but in consciously choosing to do less? 

Sometimes there’s beauty that makes me cry. Does that ever happen to you?

I got up this morning to watch the color play of pink and orange and blue and white and gray in the vast sky as the sun was rising to the east over Crystal Lake, Michigan, where I’m staying for a couple weeks. It was a beautiful sunrise for sure and so unique for me because of rising over a large body of water, which I don’t normally get to see. Not only were there the visual colors of the sky and the drama of the clouds, but I felt a light breeze on my skin, and heard the water with its small waves lapping against the dock and rhythmically crashing into the shore.