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Discover Switch to Nature founded by mental health and inclusion professional Ricki Hewitt. A blog dedicated to nature-based wellbeing, accessibility, and empowering people from all walks of life to reconnect with the natural world.
Welcome to Switch to Nature
Creating inclusive environments where people feel seen, supported, and able to succeed has been the driving force behind my career and it is the very same force behind Switch to Nature.
I am Ricki Hewitt, the founder and voice behind this blog. I am an advice and support, mental health, and inclusion professional with over eight years of experience across higher education, healthcare, and the voluntary sector. Everything I write here is shaped by that experience, and by a deep belief that nature-based wellbeing should be accessible to every single person not just a privileged few.
Who Is Behind Switch to Nature?nature-based wellbeing
Meet Ricki Hewitt Founder and Author
I have spent over eight years working across universities, healthcare services, and community organisations, supporting people with disabilities, neurodivergence, mental health conditions, and complex personal circumstances. My work has always centred on holistic pastoral care, safeguarding, casework, and tailored support helping people not just cope, but genuinely thrive.
My professional expertise spans:
• Disability support and reasonable adjustments
• Mental health interventions and safeguarding
• Equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB)
• Widening participation and community engagement
• LGBT+ inclusion and organisational culture change
• Evidence-based, person-centred support practice
I have led projects and initiatives focused on accessibility, student engagement, and systemic culture change and I bring that same commitment to everything I publish on Switch to Nature.
Why I Created Switch to Nature
A Blog Born From Professional Experience and Personal Conviction
Throughout my career, one thing became increasingly clear: the people who needed rest, restoration, and reconnection the most were often the ones with the least access to it. Nature based wellbeing is too frequently presented as something reserved for a specific type of person and that needed to change.
I started Switch to Nature to challenge that narrative. This blog is my way of taking the inclusive, evidence informed practice I have built throughout my career and applying it to the world of nature, wellbeing, and holistic living. Because I believe that switching to nature should never feel out of reach no matter who you are, where you live, or what you are going through.
What Switch to Nature Is About
Nature-Based Wellbeing for Everyone
At Switch to Nature, I write about the honest, evidence informed connection between the natural world and human health. Every article is shaped by my professional background and by my core belief that inclusive practice should be proactive, compassionate, and embedded in everyday life never an afterthought.
Here, you will find content on:
• Mental health and nature based wellbeing
• Accessible and inclusive outdoor experiences
• Neurodivergence, disability, and connecting with nature
• Mindfulness, grounding, and holistic living
• Community belonging and widening participation
• Practical, down to earth guidance for a more nature connected life
Whether you are managing a mental health challenge, living with a disability, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself and the world around you this space was built with you in mind.
Our Mission
Inclusive, Accessible, and Nature-Centred Wellbeing
My mission with Switch to Nature is simple: to make nature based wellbeing feel real, relevant, and genuinely accessible to all.
What motivates me most is helping create spaces where people from underrepresented and marginalised backgrounds are not only supported, but truly empowered to thrive. Whether through individual stories, evidence informed insights, or practical guidance, I write to ensure that wellness content reflects the full, rich diversity of human experience.
Switch to Nature is committed to:
• Publishing content that is honest, compassionate, and evidence informed
• Amplifying perspectives that mainstream wellness spaces too often overlook
• Embedding accessibility and inclusion into everything published here
• Building a community where everyone genuinely feels welcome
Why You Can Trust Switch to Nature
Professional Expertise You Can Rely On
Switch to Nature is written and led by Ricki Hewitt a qualified professional with extensive, real world expertise in mental health support, safeguarding, disability inclusion, EDIB, and holistic pastoral care. Every article published here is grounded in professional knowledge, current evidence, and a genuine commitment to accuracy and integrity.
I am not here to sell you a lifestyle. I am here to walk alongside you as you find your own way back to nature honestly, inclusively, and at your own pace.
Let’s Connect
Join the Switch to Nature Community
I am always keen to connect with professionals, organisations, and individuals who share a passion for inclusive wellbeing, mental health, and the transformative power of nature.
If you work in higher education, student services, mental health, safeguarding, accessibility, or inclusionlor if you are simply someone who believes in creating more equitable, nature centred spaces I would love to hear from you.
Visit: www.switchtonature.com
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“Inclusive practice should be proactive, compassionate, and embedded within culture not treated as an afterthought. That is what Switch to Nature stands for.”
Ricki Hewitt, Founder, Switch to Nature