Before You Put Up Your Christmas Tree, You’ve Got to Read This. No, Really. The DE-STREESSING Tree Tradition We All Need

As I hang ornaments on our own wee Charlie Brown Christmas tree this year, I’m grinning like a fool, thinking how they say “that simply sitting looking at trees reduce blood pressure as well as the stress-related hormones cortisol and adrenaline.” That research’s actually discovered that “participants walking in a forest experienced less anxiety, hostility, fatigue, confusion, and depressive symptoms, and more vigor… that those who gazed at a winter forest reported significantly better moo