Today we explore talking while walking with best-selling author Annabel Streets. Walking is a topic that seems to be everywhere I look these days. Maybe it’s because it’s been on my mind for awhile or maybe it’s because of all the new research from anthropology, to psychology to neuroscience and even ecology that help to explain the benefits of this ordinary pedestrian activity. Of course here on the program were concerned with talking especially, and what Ive learned from this intersection is pretty cool: that our conversations flow not only from our minds but our bodies. We will look at this the relationship of walking and talking whether we’re talking with others or musing with ourselves. Annabel will take us through the regular offshoots of ambling about - pace, purpose, sights and smells - and how they combine to shape not only our walks but also the exchanges that animate them. I hope this episode will inspire you like it did me to get out there, and get into the talking that only happens as we are moving together. Annabel Streets is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, and I would like to note her most recent work, 52 Ways to Walk, and previously writing as Annabel Abbs, Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women. Annabel recommends... reading books by other women walkers, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Simone De Beavoir, and Daphne du Maurier, for women especially to draw inspiration to walk alone and open up those conversations with ourselves.

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