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It’s Mental Health Awareness week 🌱 and this year the official theme is 'Nature'. We believe mental health should be talked about openly all year round and properly funded, and no awareness week is a substitute for this. But we hope you find these suggestions useful:
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1  The Wild Remedy- How Nature Mends Us by Emma Mitchell⁣
This self-illustrated book is a diary recording how nature and the wild were medicinal for the author's mental wellbeing.⁣ 🌱
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2  Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness⁣ 
This is an open and honest book about Harkness’s debilitating mental health issues, and how nature + ornithology saved his life. 🐦
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3  The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind by Isabel Hardman⁣
Renowned journalist Hardman who suffers from debilitating mental health issues advocates the benefit of being outdoors. 🚴🏽

4  Losing Eden: Why our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones⁣ 
This explores new research about how connecting with nature can drastically affect our health, and why we need to act on ecological destruction.⁣ 🌎

5 The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's love affair with nature by J. Drew Lanham
Ornithologist, J. Drew Lanham writes of finding joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor. 🌲

6  Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer 
A classic. Indigenous wisdom shows us different ways to think about plants and appreciate nature. 🌾

7  Being the change by Peter Kalmus⁣ 
This is a book about one atmospheric scientist’s quest to vastly reduce his own carbon footprint, emphasising how doing socan improve wellbeing. ⁣🌞

8  Back to nature by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin. 
Born from last year's lockdown this book shows why we need nature more than ever, and what we can do to protect it. 🦔

9  Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty 
Chronicling the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty’s world. Diagnosed with autism aged 5 - nature became not just an escape; but a life-support system. 🦅

10 Dark Skies – A Journey into the Wild Night by Tiffany Francis
Francis explores the night sky, creating connections between the darkness, nature, and our wellbeing. ✨

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