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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.
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Advance Praise for Heartwood:
“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, 2X 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
“Bold and dignified, intelligent and sensual, this book helped me fall in love with the world again.”
—Mirabai Starr, author of Ordinary Mysticism and Wild Mercy
“Woven together with a beautiful prosaic touch, Lindsay has magically connected the dots between our liberation and the centuries old knowledge rooted firmly in the mother of our existence: the trees.”
— Joél Leon, author of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize nominated, Everything and Nothing At Once
“A wonderfully perceptive and generative book, filled with invitations to open our bodies and imaginations to the many gifts offered by trees. A powerful reminder, too, of the healing powers of trees for individuals and communities.”
— David George Haskell, biologist and two-time Pulitzer-finalist author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen
“With poetic tenderness, depthful knowledge, and embodied presence, Heartwood will guide readers to their inherent belonging, interconnectedness, and relationship with the living earth.“
—Lisa Olivera, author of Already Enough and When the Ache Remains
“In mellifluous prose, embedded with sparkling glimpses of poetry, we encounter an interwoven discourse and guided meditation on trauma, chronic illness and autoimmunity, healing and recovery, and the rediscovery—the re-enchantment—of our relationship with nature.“
—Sylvestre Quevedo, MD, MPH, Research Physician, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
“Effortlessly combining scientific research, Buddhist practice, and indigenous wisdom, she unveils the remarkable discovery that enhancing our interoceptive sensitivity restores our ability to hear and understand the language of the land.”
—Brother Spirit, Plum Village
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