We’re not broken.
We’re disconnected.
And that didn’t happen by accident.
Look around.
People are anxious.
Overstimulated.
Burnt out.
Confused.
Yet somehow…
the animals are still okay.
Animals aren’t glued to screens.
They don’t follow narratives.
They don’t override instinct.
They don’t outsource authority.
They never left what’s natural.
Humans did.
We traded intuition for information.
Presence for productivity.
Nature for noise.
And then wondered why we feel lost.
Here’s the part that matters:
A dysregulated nervous system
is easy to influence.
A grounded one isn’t.
That’s why modern life runs on stress, fear, noise and distraction.
And why nature does the opposite.
Notice what happens when you’re around animals.
Your body softens.
Your mind quiets.
Your perspective widens.
You feel like yourself again.
That’s not emotional.
That’s biological.
Animals still live in the original operating system —
presence, instinct, coherence, truth.
They didn’t get programmed the way humans did.
Nature hasn’t disappeared.
The original world is still here,
buried beneath noise, chemicals, stress and distraction.
Animals are living reminders of what’s underneath.
I’ve written a longer piece exploring this more deeply —
why animals help us think clearly again
and why returning to nature is the real way out.
🌿 Read the full blog here:
https://www.catherineedwards.life/back-to-nature-animals-and-human-connection/
We don’t need fixing.
We need remembering.