The Wild Remedy Journal: Finding Wellness in Nature Paperback – 28 Dec. 2023

*The Wild Remedy Journal* is a beautifully crafted and thoughtfully structured tool designed to nurture mental well-being throughout the seasons. With its four distinct sections for each season, starting with Spring, it offers a unique journey into nature's healing power.This journal is a treasure trove of inspiration. Each page is filled with prompts that invite you to explore your thoughts and feelings in connection with the ever-changing natural world. The activities included are not just creative and engaging but also serve as gentle encouragement to embrace the great outdoors. There's ample space for your own drawings, allowing you to express your feelings and findings through art.The quotes scattered throughout the journal resonate deeply with the rhythms of nature, adding an extra layer of reflection. The illustrations are stunning, enhancing the overall experience and making each page a joy to explore.I'm optimistic that this lovingly crafted book, along with its activity ideas and journaling prompts, will prove to be a valuable tool for improving my mental health. I liked it so much that I bought a hard copy too, which i would recommend over the e-copy (though you can use that and a blank journal maybe!). If you're looking for a beautiful and meaningful way to connect with nature and enhance your mental well-being, *The Wild Remedy Journal* is an absolute must-have. Highly recommend!

The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell is a beautiful book, which captures the way in which nature can help us in every way. Emma has suffered with depression for a long time (over 25 years) and found that when she started to take walks around her home in the Cambridgeshire Fens she found that they helped lift her mood. Emma began to photograph, drawing and collecting on her walks. Something I like to do myself, apart from the drawing, as I am really rubbish. Emma found that this activity greatly contributed to a feeling of wellness.This book, set out as a diary takes each month in turn, where she records her walks, with drawing, photos and observations on nature and her depression. She tracks the nature in her area month by month over the course of a year. Emma is extremely honest and open about her depression, and she details how reconnecting with nature has helped greatly with her mental health.I really enjoyed this book, I think that connecting with nature, walking outside is very important to our state of mind. I also enjoy seasonal walks, there is always beauty to be found in the world, even in the depths of winter. I love taking photos and always collect leaves, seeds etc for my dresser. A lovely book and a joy to read.

An interesting book to read with beautiful illustrations by the author.

I found the book very informative, well written.

A wonderful book, I'm a big believer in the power of being in nature to help heal the mind, and this book reminds me why. It's beautifully written and illustrated with the author's delicate drawings, paintings and photographs. Reading it makes you want to get out into the woods, I'm definitely looking at things differently on my walks now, you really notice the colours around you. As it's written month by month it's also a useful reminder of what to look out for at different times of the year. The narrative is brave and moving as Emma charts her struggle with not succumbing to the 'grey slug' of depression, how nature helps her to lift her mood and why. Given that many of us will at some point in our lives suffer from depression I think this is a really important book. Uplifting and inspiring.

What an amazing book! As a sufferer of both depression and SAD like Emma I have found her writing so helpful. It is very accessible without being superficial. She describes her symptoms so accurately and with such gentle comparison to natural elements around her. She also refers to current scientific explanations of the illness. Her illustrations are overwhelmingly beautiful, with such attention to details without being so precise, as this of a botanical artist would be, that I am tempted to try to emulate her craftwork. Indeed, I will order her other book now. I am benefitting so much from this book that I have bought copies for several close friends, some also depression sufferers and there who compassionately support them.

This beautiful book speaks to the heart, from the heart. Emma Mitchell’s writing transports the reader to the gentle woods - I can see, hear, taste and feel the natural world, even as I read from my sofa as the rain pours outside! I so agree with her conviction that nature cures, and she mingles scientific research and fact with her sentiments to support her prose. Noticing what is around outdoors in any season is a sort of meditation, fosussing the mind and distracting one from the dark moods. Reading this book lifts the spirits and inspires one to battle depression by getting outside, even if it is just into the garden to watch the birds feed on old crusts of bread (which I did when I was feeling too low to even get dressed. Truly uplifting.). Thank you, Emma, for this treasure of a book!

In her introduction to this book Ms Mitchell says, "My hope is that if low mood has you pinned to your sofa or bed and you feel as though you are wading through the treacle of sadness, reading about what I have seen, seeing the photographs and illustrations in this book, and perhaps venturing out to seek a winkle or weasel of your own, may bring some relief". Ms Mitchell's 'treacle of sadness' is Seasonal Affective Disorder, and ,as she journeys through the months of her diary, she clearly and most poetically shows how this affects her each year and how and why sunlight and communing with nature can help (though she leaves out the vital part melatonin plays!...more research needed there, Emma!). Ms Mitchell is in awe of nature and this comes across clearly in this beautifully produced book. I too suffer from SAD and the book has certainly inspired me to go out and walk in our delightful countryside, to notice more, and to appreciate the tiniest manifestations of the nature around me.

A fabulous book for creatives, lovers of nature. Wonderfully illustrated and Mitchell is a lovely writer. Can be read all at once or dipped into for nurturing breaks from the daily routine.

Ho letto gli altri due libri della scrittrice e mi sono piaciuti molto. Ispira calma e pace tramite le sue foto e parole.Questo journal è un tesoro da tenere vicino durante l'anno, una guida nella natura dove la scrittrice ti incoraggia a guardarti intorno e vedere le cose in un altro modo. Perfetto per chiunque abbia bisogno di momenti di calma in questi tempi.

Un libro muy intimista, una edición preciosa cuidada al detalle. Trata acerca de la depresión de la autora y cómo la conexión de la naturaleza le ha ayudado a revivir y sentirse mejor. No sólo son letras, también dibujos y fotografías, aparte de sentimientos, pensamientos o emociones.

I follow Emma on Twitter because she posts the most beautiful photos. I was delighted to learn she also wrote a book with even more beautiful photos. I live in Montana and the winters are long, cold, dark, and somewhat depressing. There are many days where going outside is impossible due to the wind or cold. I've found on those days especially this book is so lovely to pick up and thumb through, read some encouraging words, and gaze at the gorgeous pictures. Thank you, Emma, for this beautiful creation and also inspiring me on Twitter to seek beauty even in the dead of winter.

Excellent. I relate to what Emma Mitchell shares with her readers--a glimpse into mental illness, and the healing curative that nature can provide.