73. Leaving The City and Living Off The Land w/ Gaz Oakley

Reflecting on: Slow Living, Nature and Self Sufficiency with Gaz Oakley | The Mood Booster Podcast Ep. 73 The Home of Wellbeing and Joy 🌱 Welcome back to The Mood Booster Podcast. This week Charlie and Dr Marcus are joined by for one of our most reflective and grounding conversations yet. From leaving London behind and reconnecting with nature, to growing food, rejecting labels, building community, fatherhood, sustainability, anxiety, and the pursuit of a slower life, this episode explores what it really means to live intentionally in a world that constantly pushes us towards speed, convenience, and consumption. Gaz shares how reconnecting with the land completely changed his relationship with food, wellbeing, stress, identity, and purpose, and why modern life can leave so many of us feeling disconnected from what truly matters. This is an honest, thoughtful, and wide ranging conversation about nature, self sufficiency, mental health, compassion, and finding joy in simpler ways of living. 🎧 In This Episode Charlie, Dr Marcus and Gaz explore slow living as both a philosophy and a practical way of life. The conversation moves through growing your own food, reconnecting with nature, anxiety and nervous system regulation, community living, the pressures of modern culture, labels and identity, fatherhood, sustainability, consumerism, and the emotional impact of living more intentionally. Gaz also opens up about why he no longer labels himself vegan, the complexities of modern food systems, and how trying to live compassionately often means embracing nuance rather than extremes. 🛠 Practical Advice The key insight from this episode is that wellbeing is often found in reconnection rather than accumulation. Reconnecting with nature, community, craftsmanship, slower routines, meaningful work, and the simple act of growing or creating something with your hands can profoundly change the way we experience stress, purpose, and joy. 📍 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝: Community and Connection, Introspection and Inspiration, Wellbeing and Joy 🔔 Don’t forget to follow and review, it really helps us grow  📲 Follow us for more: 👉 Instagram: @themoodboosterofficial  👉 TikTok: @themoodboosterofficial  🌍 Website: www.themoodbooster.co.uk  🎥 Prefer video? Watch this episode on YouTube @TheMoodBoosterOfficial