In today's solo episode of 'The Wellbeing Wanderer Podcast' Kat talks about how living life simply makes you healthier and happier. Kat has spent many months living in the popular 'Blue Zone' of Guanacaste in Costa Rica where people tend to live longer than the average person and adopt a 'Pura Vida' (the pure life) lifestyle.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by life, overstimulated, over worked or burnt out and then this episode is for you. Key points covered in today's episode:

• Kat shares a bit about the commonalities between blue zones around the world and how people live more simply, slowly and for longer

• How in 1st world, westernised countries like the UK and the US we are over stressed through overdoing, overstimulation and bombarded by sensory visuals and information and it is stress that leads to disease.

• How for a long while Kat removed all the extra stressors in her life that were overstimulating her brain including the news, TV and Netflix.

• That creating space to just be with yourself and be present without any background distractions like TV or music will help you to find more peace.
• How booking at least a week of no plans, no schedules, literally nothingness is incredibly healing for you. Slowing down is a key piece to healing the body and the mind.
• That we don't need Netflix, TV, mobile phones and there was a time when none of these things existed and they have a negative effect on us. These dopamine rich stimulants detach you from yourself and lead to anxiety.
• The closer to nature we are and what's natural, the healthier we feel and the more space we have to form connections to ourselves and others.
• Try to spend more time with whatever nature you have available to you will help you to destress and lower cortisol levels.
• How eating food close to source means it is more nutrient dense and will therefore help your body function better
• How people living simply have more of an active lifestyle which contributes to good health.
• That being in a community is so healing because we a re tribal beings and are not meant to live alone, for thousands of years we lived in tribes.

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