Healing with Nature

Got the book outside at a bookstore but there are zero reviews so reviewing here on Amazon. This book is absolutely fantastic! There’s lot of information on practices and mindfulness. There’s information on brain, connection to trauma, mindfulness exercises and much more. Absolutely love this book. If you’re into mindfulness I can definitely recommend!

Wonderful book

This is really beautifully written with lots of practices in each chapter. The practices all build awareness, are nurturing and support healing. The practices can be quite powerful as was the case with one of them for me. It’s a wonderful unique combination of mindfulness, somatics and nature that can be adapted in a way that’s right for the individual using the book. It is also a call for us to listen to natures suffering and take action to help nature heal too.

What a beautiful book! It is evident throughout that the author deeply cares for the wellbeing of the reader and the earth, and that together, each can help the other heal. She leads us through our inner landscapes by offering mindfulness practices, reflections and activities that connect us with our bodies, hearts and minds, all while using nature as a grounding and connecting restorative force. I love that she provides a link to listen to each of the mindfulness practices online, spoken in her calm and caring voice, so that I can practice along with her guidance. Reading this book feels like an invitation to offer myself, with the support of the trees, the ocean, the wind and sky, the true grounding, soothing and presence that lead to true and lasting healing.

Healing with Nature is an incredible book that melds the powerful healing practices of mindfulness and somatic experiencing together with the loving support of the earth. This book provides clear examples of how the reader can access these both ancient and cutting edge practices immediately and create a lasting and life-long resource for themselves. Finally, this book also calls us into a more loving relationship with the earth and inspires the reader to take action to care for our planet. 10/10 recommend.

Dr. Calvert invites the reader into, not her world, but THE world, like one might be invited to swim in a beautiful lagoon. Gentle, kind, and yet compelling, she ask the reader to explore the soothing and healing opportunities present to us when we stop doing and open our awareness to do the natural world around us. What is most striking is that there isn’t a lot of work involved when we accept Dr. Calvert’s invitation, but rather we are asked to merely open our senses to the sights, sounds, and smells around us and then notice how those sensations change us internally. As a fellow psychologist and somatic practitioner, I can’t recommend Healing with Nature more highly, both ourselves as well as for the people we serve.

This book is a wondrous and emotionally nourishing experience! Reading this book felt like a gentle, restorative exploration of humanity. You begin with learning about mindfulness and somatic practices and ultimately arrive at the ability to embrace and love life and Earth. Nature becomes a wise female power, revealed through the beautifully written descriptive practices. I felt like I was actually sitting in the sunlight with the author in the canyon behind her home, listening to birds and feeling a cool breeze.