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Emmy nominated filmmaker and University of Cambridge Environmental Psychologist invites readers into a poetic, embodied and expansive journey into the idea that our relationship with trees could change the trajectory of climate collapse.

Combining her pioneering PhD research on interoceptive awareness, our body’s “eighth sense,” which she suggests is the sensuous language of the Earth, along with science and stories about trees rooted in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, readers will be walked through a wonder-filled process of creating an erotic and reciprocal relationship with the more than human world. Branham takes readers on a profound exploration; how to learn the language of trees, hear their sentinel, collective wisdom, and move from strangers to kin.

Heartwood speaks directly to the fact that our dissatisfaction, discontent and despair are core symptoms of being separated from nature and shares exactly how to rediscover the living, teeming medicine that is right under our feet.

Each chapter includes a "tree" and "body” practice rooted in mindfulness and Budhhist philosophy to directly experience kinship with trees, and to be loved in turn.

Currently represented by Folio Management.

© Lindsay Branham

Columnist, The Aspen Times, the oldest news source in Pitkin County, Colorado, writing about local place-based environmental topics. See more here.

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“For those ready to divorce themselves from the extractive ways of living that have severed us from ourselves and Mother Nature—this book is the map for a new way forward.”
—Anna Malaika Tubbs, New York Timesbestselling author of The Three Mothers and Erased

“As the world literally and figuratively burns, Branham is giving us a vibrant, vision-changing way to survive what's coming.”
—Jedidiah Jenkins,New York Times bestselling author of Like Streams to the Ocean, To Shake the Sleeping Self, Mother: Nature