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The Wild Remedy
- How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
- Narrated by: Emma Mitchell
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, "the grey slug" - for 25 years. In 2003, she moved from the city to the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens and began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting, and drawing as she went. Each walk lifted her mood, proving to be as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical.
In Emma's diary, she takes us with her as she follows the paths and trails around her cottage and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna over the course of a year. Reflecting on how these encounters impact her mood, Emma's moving and candid account of her own struggles is a powerful testament to how reconnecting with nature may offer some answers to today's mental health epidemic. While charting her own seasonal highs and lows, she also explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into such areas as forest bathing and the ways in which our bodies and minds respond to plants and wildlife when we venture outdoors.
Written with Emma's characteristic wit and frankness, this is a truly unique book for anyone who has ever felt drawn to nature and wondered about its influence over us.
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- Spaniel71
- 17-11-23
Not bad.
It had some lovely moments and interesting and factual bits about nature however mostly, and perhaps ironically, it was very depressing and self indulgent.
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- Julieb
- 24-02-22
not so much about nature
I enjoyed parts of it but she did talk more about her depression than nature. not up to the standard of Melissa Harrison.
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- DebP
- 17-02-24
A beautiful, uplifting read.
The author very prosaically brings out the awesomeness of our natural surroundings and eloquently confers the positive and healing effects that can have on us. Very inspiring, not only for those with low mood, SAD, or depression. Though I’m fortunate to live in the countryside I will walk more mindfully and derive more benefit from my environment in future.
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- Gillian Williams
- 16-02-23
Wildlife remedy
Lovely description of the wild life soothing to listen too on my walks with my dog Bailey 🐶
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- ljb
- 31-07-22
A beautiful book
Thank you for such an honest and beautiful book. I’ve enjoyed reading it while walking in nature
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- ana
- 23-02-22
Soothing and full of hope
I loved this book, and it gave me plenty of ideas to treat my mental health with respect. I missed having the images, so it would be good if it came with a link to them.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-03-23
NOT an audio book
I stopped when she started with lists of plants and birds etc...no guide pdf with this audiobook. As well as, her sweet soft narration is ok if you need a sleep app. Sorry I am terribly disappointed in buying this book. The authors seems to mean well, but sounds patronizing.
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- JAMc
- 06-02-23
Beautiful and moving.
A wonderful explanation of one woman’s experience of her depression and her use of nature to assist in managing it. Moving and enlightening all at the same time.
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- Northernmonkee1
- 02-06-23
Loved this so much
Reminder of the power of nature and its use to give us balance and peace. Highly recommend
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- Gillian2114
- 02-09-23
Oh dear
Well if I wasn’t depressed before I certainly am now, more about depression than nature
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