Part IV: Coming Home to Nature
Where it all lands: the human nervous system, and what happens to us when we lose touch with the living world.
The essays
No. 8Nature Is the Medicine: The Ecological Roots of Mental Health
We are not broken. We are living systems in a depleted environment.
A question to sit with
If an animal paced and grew anxious in a cage, no one would say the animal was broken. We would look at the cage.
When you feel restless, heavy, or far away from yourself, where do you look first?
Describe the cage you live in. Then describe one small way you could walk out of it, even for an hour a day.
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