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The Wild Remedy

How Nature Mends Us - A Diary

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The Wild Remedy

By: Emma Mitchell
Narrated by: Emma Mitchell
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About this listen

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.

©2018 Emma Mitchell (P)2020 Tantor Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Career Success Hygiene & Healthy Living Mental Health Mood Disorders Motivation & Self-Improvement Outdoors & Nature Personal Development Psychology & Mental Health Science Sustainable & Green Living Health Career Inspiring

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It had some lovely moments and interesting and factual bits about nature however mostly, and perhaps ironically, it was very depressing and self indulgent.

Not bad.

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I enjoyed parts of it but she did talk more about her depression than nature. not up to the standard of Melissa Harrison.

not so much about nature

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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.

A beautiful, uplifting read.

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Lovely description of the wild life soothing to listen too on my walks with my dog Bailey 🐶

Wildlife remedy

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Thank you for such an honest and beautiful book. I’ve enjoyed reading it while walking in nature

A beautiful book

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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.

Soothing and full of hope

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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.

NOT an audio book

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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.

Beautiful and moving.

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Reminder of the power of nature and its use to give us balance and peace. Highly recommend

Loved this so much

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I read this wonderful book several years ago. I am a huge fan of Emma’s so it was a thrill to discover the audiobook in the Plus Library.

Nurturing and restorative journey through the year. Emma’s sharing of her ups and downs has helped me identify so many of my own experiences.

I loved her narration, even the odd stumble here and there that must have slipped past the editors makes it feel so genuine and honest.

Highly recommended!

Rejuvenating and restorative

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