29-07-2025
‘Blue spaces' can be calming. Here's the science behind it.
In her 20s, Catherine Kelly received a call that shattered her. She learned her 47-year-old mother, whom she had spoken with the evening before, died instantly from a brain hemorrhage.
Shortly after, Kelly, an Irish native, 'got a job in this beautiful, wild part of the West of Ireland on the Atlantic coast,' she said. 'When I got there, I felt like I automatically exhaled.'