I love the important and empowering message of psychotherapist Julie Brams' new book The Nature-Embedded Mind. Her profound work offers us the first step in addressing the escalating, converging eco-disasters now happening on our planet. Brams urges us to wake up from the destructive delusion that humans are somehow magically separate from and superior to the rest of nature and deeply take in the reality that we are part of nature. Brams captures this simple but profound shift in thinking and inspires us to take collective, constructive healing action and to open ourselves to a profoundly joyful relationship with the rest of nature. ~ Linda Buzzell, LMFT, Co-editor, Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books) Researcher/Writer, College Educator at Pacifica Graduate Institute Featured in Huffington Post on Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy

In her book, The Nature Embedded Mind, Julie Brams offers a clear, inviting, and effective guidebook for coming back into direct relationship with the larger web of kinship and life that has already surrounded and sustained us. These teachings and practices are critically needed for the cultural changes ahead and also support greater personal happiness and daily intimacy with body, land, and community. Highly recommended! ~ Daniel Foor, Ph.D., Author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

In The Nature-Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves, Brams makes a simple and inarguable case for a profound shift in thinking needed at this point in human history. Brams' recommendation of how this shift can occur, not only at the individual level but also across the entire field of Western psychology, is bold and inspirational. ~ Thom Hartmann, New York Times bestselling author of over 30 books, national and international progressive political commentator, radio personality and talk show host

Julie Brams’ The Nature Embedded Mind is a must-read for mental health clinicians in the age of the Anthropocene. As we witness the emergence of heightened climate anxiety, Brams’ analysis of the intersection between eco-psychology and the practice of Forest Therapy stands as a beacon of hope for understanding the true medicine of the More Than Human World. Her work affirms the critical idea that repairing the relationship between humanity and the Earth is foundational to our entire experience of what we call mental health and goes beyond the idea to suggest how we can create space for the intelligence and wisdom of nature to be the source of our deepest healing. ~ Ben Page, Author Healing Trees: Your Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing (Simon & Schuster), Director of Training Association of Nature and Forest Therapy

The Nature Embedded Mind is an indispensable book for cultivating healing at a root level. Filled with entertaining, insightful personal stories, well-thought-out research on the intersection between environmental science and psychology, and practical methods to repair what is broken, - this is a guidebook out of isolation, depression, and disconnection and towards true healing, not only of ourselves but remarkably, the entire planet. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking a future of balance, connection, and wholeness. ~ Marni Freedman,, LMFT, program director for the San Diego Writers Festival

Julie Brams writes with great clarity and sensitivity about what it means to be a guide, and her journey to learn the art of guiding. She articulates the essential differences between guide and psychotherapist. Having trained in both practices, she is uniquely qualified to do so. She brings forward an understanding essential for all those who would be guides. ~ Amos Clifford, Founder CEO Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, author of Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature