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Essay: Nature as Medicine

How an encounter with a creature recalibrates my perspective

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Ben Wakeman
Jul 19, 2023
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Nature is medicine for me. I need at least a small dose of it every day to inoculate myself against anxiety, depression, and a general feeling that I could be a complete failure. This medicine is hard to come by living in the mi…

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