Grounded: A Guided Journal to Help You Reconnect with the Power of Natureand Yourself

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Interact with natureboth inside your home and outwith this beautifully illustrated, inspirational, and interactive journal to help you reconnect with the great outdoors.

Contact with nature is good for our psychological and physical health and has been proven to reduce stress, restore attention fatigue, ease depression and anxiety, and foster creativity. Interacting with the outdoors can ground us, offer us a sense of security, deepen the roots of resilience, and enhance our sensory awareness that contributes to feeling fully alive.

Grounded is an interactive journal full of calming art, photography, and inspirational quotes, offering prompts and activities that deepen your experience with nature. Engaging all five senses, this guide journal encourages you to bring the outdoors in, including displaying a collection of found objects such as shells and rocks, creating a simple leaf press to preserve fallen leaves, and growing low-maintenance house plants and edible herbs that perfume the air. Whether you live in a city or a wide-open space, this journal is perfect for anyone looking to make the most of what the world has to offer.

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Patricia Hasbach has invested the time and care over her career to now harvest well-crafted ingredients and applications, to prepare and distill them to their essence; a guide, which allows for meaningful and reciprocally rewarding nature experiences.Answering distress calls from Rachel Carson to the Lorax, the activities and meditations throughout this book offer you, the participant in life, a chance to explore and re-engage in being fully humanthat is, a part of, and not separate from, nature. Follow along, discover with interest and awe the expansion of your ecological self, and breathe it in deeply.This is a self-study course in nature connection, facilitated by one of ecotherapys leading voices and practitioners, and a real treat to follow! Well done, Patricia.

Nevin J. Harper, PhD, RCC, professor at the University of Victoria, coauthor ofNature-Based Therapy,and co-editor ofOutdoor Therapies
Pat Hasbach is one of Americasand the worldsleading voices in ecopsychology. Her prescriptions here, delivered with kindness, are as ancient as they are new, and filled with the spirit of rebirth.

Richard Louv, author ofLast Child in the Woods,Vitamin N, andOur Wild Calling
What a beautiful and wonderful book! Ecotherapist Dr. Patricia Hasbach gifts us with a lovely treasure trove of doable daily practices to help us include essential nature connection activities in our everyday lives. Flip it open to a fresh page each morning, and awaken your senses to intimate, embodied awareness of our oneness with Earth and the cosmos.

Linda Buzzell, coeditor ofEcotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind


As I read Patricia HasbachsGrounded,I thought, What if the ideas inGroundedbecame standard procedure for all legislators What if they were required to spend as much time outside watching clouds as in dark woodlined rooms; what if they all had plants on their desks, small altars made from meaningful natural objects Imagineif they only met lobbyists outside while sitting around a fire. The result Only life-affirming decisions. As Hasbach points out, these ideas have been around for our entire evolutionary history. I daresay our ability to thrive in the future is proportional to the number of peoplelegislators and otherwisewho incorporate into their lives the habits outlined inGrounded.

Brooke Williams,authorofMary Jane Wild: Two Walks & a Rant
Dr. Hasbachs gorgeous, easy-to-use journal helps all of usno matter where we areconnect with the beauty and solace of nature and deepen our sense of calm, open-hearted belonging.

Mary DeMocker, author of The Parents Guide to Climate Revolution
"[A] rad new mindfulness journal."

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Author Bio

Dr. Patricia H. Hasbach is a licensed psychotherapist, consultant, author, and college educator. Dr. Hasbach specializes in managing anxiety and depression, as well as fostering health and wellness. She has published numerous articles and is an author and coeditor of two MIT Press books, includingEcopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species. As one of the medias go-to ecotherapists, she and her work have appeared in numerous outlets includingTime, Vogue, Outside Magazine, theUtne Reader,The New York Times Magazine,The Wall Street Journal,The Christian Science Monitor, andSierra Magazine. She lives with her husband and two dogs on the McKenzie River in Eugene, Oregon.