‘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 to provide relief from anxiety and depression. Now, in this stunning journal, she invites you to accompany her on that road, to experience nature for yourself, record your 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 your own 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 nature journal includes activities, drawing prompts, contemplative quotes and lots of space for you to write about your inner thoughts, feelings and experiences.

Emma Mitchell is a designer-maker, naturalist, writer and illustrator who records her daily nature finds with photographs and illustrations on her Instagram (@silverpebble2 – 105k followers)
and Twitter (@silverpebble – 90k followers).

Her two Sunday Times bestselling books, The Wild Remedy (2019) and Making Winter (2017) document the ways in which she uses nature to ease the symptoms of the depression that she has suffered for over two decades.

Emma is a Guardian Country Diarist, has written and contributed seasonal creative projects for BBC Countryfile Magazine, Country Living, Mollie Makes and Breathe. She has appeared on Radio 4’s Ramblings and on BBC Countryfile’s winter special. Emma lives on the edge of the Fens in Eastern England with her family and Annie, their lurcher. You can find out more at www.emmamitchell.net.