'I first came across the Wilder Wellbeing project and its Wellbeing in Nature course when it was shared on a local Facebook community page. At the time, I had just been to see my GP as I was experiencing another period of depression and poor mental health. My doctor prescribed medication, but I was told that the waiting list for counselling was over six months. I didn’t know who to turn to and I couldn’t find a way out from the mindset that I was trapped in.
The course appealed to me because I’ve always had a love for nature and being outdoors. I also realised that I’d not really made an awful lot of time for myself to get outside in the previous months and that maybe this could be the key to my recovery from the depression that I was experiencing. Around that time, I’d been barely able to leave the house. Periods of isolation and stress due to Covid-19.