Author(s): Dimity Williams

Health - Wellbeing

Find out how connecting to nature can boost your health and heal our planetJoin mother, nature lover and family physician, Dr Dimity Williams as she explores the most important relationship we have - our connection with nature.The natural world provides our life support system- giving us clean air and water, a stable climate and healthy soils to grow our food. Earth's biological richness, or biodiversity, offers us precious medicines and beautiful places for psychological and spiritual rejuvenation. Yet modern life has seen screen spaces replace green places as we have moved inside and into virtual worlds. This change has not been good for us, or our planet. Lifestyle-related diseases and mental health problems are overwhelming health systems everywhere. Meanwhile, outside, the natural world is falling apart with climate change and mass extinctions of plants and animals.The solution is simple: we need to reconnect to nature.Incorporating science, history, stories, and alternative cultural knowledge, Dimity makes the case that caring for nature is essential for our wellbeing. And, for all life on Earth. In Nature, Our Medicine, you will:-Uncover the links between planetary and human health-Discover the benefits of time in nature for your body, mind and heart-Learn how to go forest bathing and create your own nature prescription-Find out why nature play is so important for children-Look to the philosophies of First Nations people-Recognise your inherent biophilia, or love of the living world-See how we can heal ourselves and our planet at the same time