{"id":32181,"date":"2025-07-02T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:02:11","slug":"how-connecting-with-nature-in-the-heart-of-the-city-helped-a-houston-writer-get-thourgh-a-divorce-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32181\/","title":{"rendered":"How connecting with nature in the heart of the city helped a Houston writer get thourgh a divorce \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Hagerty\/Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

Isobella Jade at a pond in the Houston Arboretum.<\/p>\n

Not long after leaving her home in New York to move to Houston with her husband and kids, Isobella Jade<\/a> went through a divorce. She was forced to start her life over from scratch in an unfamiliar city, all white navigating the unfamiliar \u2014 and often uncomfortable \u2014 territory of splitting up lives and adjusting to the emotionally fraught landscape of co-parenting with her ex.<\/p>\n

To get through it, Jade turned to nature, as people often do when struggling to recapture a sense of themselves in a new reality. And she was surprised to find so much nature to connect with right in the heart of our often miserably hot, freeway-covered metropolis.<\/p>\n

\"AA pathway winds its way past the South Woodway pond in the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center.<\/p>\n

More and more, she began taking long walks on the trails that cut through the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center<\/a> in Memorial Park. She writes about that experience and how it helped her heal in her latest book, Heart Trail: Love, Loss, and Mending from New York to Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To talk about how connecting with nature can be restorative in trying times and everyday life, Jade met up with Houston Matters producer Michael Hagerty<\/a> to take one of those same walks.<\/p>\n