Thenaturalmedic Adventures
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Thenaturalmedic Adventures
Mental Health WILL DRIVE YOU MAD OUTDOORS! Plus Some Announcements
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Mental Health in the Outdoors is essential. In this week's episode, I talk about my brief absence from content creation and some exciting developments in my personal life, and recent outdoor experiences. Please make sure to like and subscribe so you don't miss more amazing content!
I will be talking about how Mental Health will drive you mad outdoors. Plus, I have some announcements! Mental health can be a tricky topic to talk about, but we must do it. So this episode is meant to be a conversation starter and to start a discussion about Mental Health and how to deal with it.
If you're feeling down and want to talk about it, or if you want to listen to someone talk about Mental Health and what it's like to have it, please subscribe to this channel! I would appreciate it.
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Hello there! My name is Craig thenaturalmedic. On this podcast, I help you build the skills, understand gear choices and review trip destinations in a budget-friendly manner to help you enjoy the outdoors safely. I primarily focus on hiking and backpacking, but I am certainly not limited to those topics. Instead, I try to give you the best possible information based on my experiences and opinions from my decades of outdoor adventure travel. Thanks for being here!
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Hey folks, it is Craig Natural Medic. Welcome to the channel. It's been a minute since I've been here. I wanna explain my absence real quick. I have moved to a new city and more about that later, but this is the first inaugural breakfast with the natural medic, So I'm having some coffee in a bagel. Let's talk about mental health today and when you're on the trail. Approximately a month ago I got a new job and so I had to move. So now I now live in the small town of Greenville, Texas. Which is a bigger town than my old town, but I'm right on the edge of the Dallas Fort Worth, also known as DFW Metroplex. So some new adventures will be here. However, I was on Eagle Rock Loop about the end of September and. Planning on being there on the first and leaving on the first. But long story short, I got ill on the trail and my brain was just not there. I was supposed to have a partner go with me to hike and sh and she wasn't able to go due to other obligations, which is totally fine, totally understandable. We're all busy. We all have things we have to do, and some things take priority. But the main thing to think about is. How do you draw the line, when you are trying to take care of your mental health on the trail. When do you know when to stop? When to stop? And for me, I got there at a pretty good time cause I stayed the night at a hotel near the trailhead in uh, in Arkansas. And got there to the trail on a pretty early start. I was on the trail by I think about 10 30. It was a Thursday morning, September the 29th, and everything was going good. And then what happened was I started feeling this feeling of nausea and I just didn't really, I just didn't really feel. Myself. Whenever I ate food, no matter what the food was, it made me feel more nauseous. So I'm not really sure what the deal was exactly. But I also tried to hammock for the first time to sleep in overnight. And the hammock was number one. It was too short. I didn't bring enough cover cuz it got down to the low forties, upper thirties, and I was cold all. So to stay the next morning. I got up with not really good spirits, had I would not have a very good sleep. And I got to little Missouri Falls. So I got about half of the trail done approximately, and I met a couple who actually has ties to my hometown in Jefferson, Texas. And I hitchhiked with them back to my vehicle back in the southwest corner of Eagle Rock Loop because I knew if I went past where I was at Little Missouri Falls, there would not be. That could take me anywhere in case I got ill or more, more ill, I just didn't feel like I had the Energy and I couldn't really eat food. And so I just decided I would opt out. I'll probably go more in a more in depth to this in a later video, but for right now, I kind just wanna give you that overview and maybe that's why I've been a little absent over the last week in addition to moving to a new town. Cause I'm in Greenville. As I said, which is just outside of Dallas Fort Worth area on the east side. Still technically in East Texas, but I'm right on the borderline of East Texas and North Texas. So definitely a different environment here. I'm looking forward to that and there'll be more to come about that. Cause I'm probably starting a new channel. I don't have a name for it yet, but I'm gonna start a channel about thrifty living cuz I. It, it costs a lot of money to, to move. And so if you're interested in that, I'll be posting that in the description as soon as I have that information. But for today, I wanted to just give you a overview what's been going on, but definitely, if you're hiking along, whether you're doing a day hike an overnight hike or a multi-day hike, and you start feeling off, Don't put yourself in a bad way, in a bad situation when you get to that point of no return where you could hurt yourself. If I had continued on the trail from little Missouri Falls in Arkansas on the Eagle Rock loop, I probably, could have hurt myself pretty severely last time I was up there. It's a pretty tough trail. Last time I was up there I was sprained my ankle really good about a grade two, which is the middle grade where the ligament stretch. Almost to the max without tearing. And I had, I'm still recovering from that, and that was December of last year. But the main message is I want you to be careful out there. Know your limitations before you go out there and know what is it that what can I, how can I know when too much is too much. or when I've had, enough of my feel now I blame myself partially cause I wasn't very prepared as far as the weather goes for sleeping. I was prepared clothing wise, but I wasn't prepared. I had a lighter blanket, camp blanket with me for my top part of my hammock, plus the hammock. I'd never slept in it before, so it's too small. All that kind of being equal, that kind of suck. It sucked. And now I'll have more decor in here. I just moving into my new duplex. Been here for a week and two days, so not very long. Still trying to unpack and get everything settled here. But I do have some exciting news as far as guests. I do have a friend of mine, her name is Jill. She is from the Dallas area. She's. A physical therapist and she is also a hiker and backpacker, and she's gonna come on the show as a guest and I'm gonna interview her and she's gonna give us some information about how to prevent injuries and so forth on the trail. And also if you have injuries, how to, how to help nurse those back to hill, so to speak. I also have another lady who hiked the Arizona Trail. Her name is Tracy. She'll probably be coming on in December or. and she's gonna talk to us about mental health more in depth because when you do a big old trail like the Arizona Trail, which is almost 900 miles long, do a bunch of different challenging terrain of Arizona your mental game's gotta be right on. I have two other guests coming on, hopefully before the end of the year. One of them she hiked about half of the Appalachian trail this year and had to come off due to some injuries and she's. She's top notch a trooper, and I'll be having her on her trail name is Georgia. So you, some of you might, some of You'all listening and watching may know her. But anyway and if you're liking my content, make sure you comment, give it a good thumbs up and consider subscribing And then my last guess I'm gonna have hopefully before the end of the year as well as a new friend that is a fellow YouTuber that lives close to me now, he lives over in the, in Collin County area, which is just to my kind of northwest of where I live here in Greenville. And he has a survival school and he has a YouTube channel. And I'll, I will share that at a later time. And he's gonna come on and talk about some things to think about as far as. and preparedness for being on the trail when things maybe, when things maybe don't go exactly like you want. So lots of things coming here on the channel, on the podcast. I appreciate everybody that watches help me to grow this channel by sharing this with your friends sharing my other videos that are on the channel. Like those, comment on those, I appreciate that if you click on affiliate links of any products I've ever recommended in the past, that doesn't cost you anything extra. But it helps me, grow the channel. Cause it does take time to edit and, produce these videos. I'm the only, I'm the one man show as far as that goes. And and podcast as well. But I definitely appreciate you you being here and watching today. I'm gonna sign off for now and more to come soon. So stay tuned. Make sure subscribe and do all those other things, and I'll see you out there. Bye.
