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The Wild Remedy Journal
Emma Mitchell
Extent: 128pages
Size: 190x147mm
Publication Date: 28/12/2023
About the Book
‘At a time when disconnection from wildlife threatens our mental health this book offers the perfect adaptor to plug our brains back into natures’ therapeutic socket. Page by page it reconnects us to the real, wild world we live in. A must-read for any modern-day Homo sapiens.’ Chris Packham
In The Wild Remedy, Emma Mitchell’s deeply personal account of her interactions with nature and its healing properties, she recorded, month by month, a year of her nature finds and wildlife discoveries and the science behind how nature affects our neurochemistry. Now, in this stunning journal, she invites her many followers to accompany her on that road, to experience nature for themselves, record their own interactions and find healing in the natural world.
Full of Emma’s exquisite artworks and photographs, this journal contains many of her own observations and reflections, along with prompts and ideas that will help to unlock the readers’ experience of nature. It shows how reconnecting with the natural world around us can be a powerful tool – as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical.
This unique journal includes activities, drawing prompts, contemplative quotes and lots of space for you to write about your own thoughts, feelings and experiences.
About the Author
Emma Mitchell is a designer-maker, naturalist, illustrator, and the acclaimed author of The Wild Remedy (2019) and bestselling Making Winter (2017) – over 50,000 copies have been sold in the UK and the US. She is a Guardian Country Diarist, has written and contributed seasonal creative projects for BBC Countryfile Magazine, Country Living, Mollie Makes and Breathe. Emma has appeared on Radio 4’s Ramblings, on BBC Countryfile’s winter special and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Emma records her daily nature finds with photographs and illustrations on her Instagram (@silverpebble2 – 105,000 followers) and Twitter (@silverpebble –72,700 followers). She runs nature illustration courses: workshops.emmamitchell.net.
Reviews
- 'Emma’s words are profound, her photography is inspiring and her illustrations are exquisite. This book is the literary equivalent of Prozac.', Emma Freud
- 'This is a beautiful, beautiful book, and I can’t recommend it enough.', Sue Perkins
- 'An absolute joy.', Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
- 'Emma’s writing is precise, gorgeous and inspiring.', Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun