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Rewild Your Mind: Use nature as your guide to a happier, healthier life
Rewild Your Mind shows you how to connect with nature to be happier, healthier and more at peace with the world around you.
Packed with wilderness skills and traditional crafts – from fixing a hammock in the woods and foraging for hedgerow medicine to finding moments of 'wild' in the everyday – this unique book enables readers to boost their wellbeing through getting outside. It is an invitation to reset, recharge and 'rewild' yourself.
Weaved through the book is Nick Goldsmith's personal story of using nature to aid his recovery from PTSD. After several tours serving as a Royal Marine Commando in Afghanistan, Nick was left in a dark and desperate place. He tried conventional therapies but found true solace amongst nature, and now enables others to do the same.
Packed with wilderness skills and traditional crafts – from fixing a hammock in the woods and foraging for hedgerow medicine to finding moments of 'wild' in the everyday – this unique book enables readers to boost their wellbeing through getting outside. It is an invitation to reset, recharge and 'rewild' yourself.
Weaved through the book is Nick Goldsmith's personal story of using nature to aid his recovery from PTSD. After several tours serving as a Royal Marine Commando in Afghanistan, Nick was left in a dark and desperate place. He tried conventional therapies but found true solace amongst nature, and now enables others to do the same.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published March 21, 2023
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January 18, 2024
Rewild Your Mind is a non-fiction book written by former Royal Marine Commando Nick Goldsmith. He left the military after developing Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and turned to nature to help heal himself.
He now lives in Cornwall surrounded by woodland and he has created a Woodland Warrior Programme of therapeutic activities centred on the natural world which helps other armed forces members.
In this book Nick shares some of his knowledge so that others with mental health problems might benefit from being out in nature. Chapters in the book include the benefits of sitting around a camp fire enjoying conversations, foraging for food, making a wild cup of tea and both survival and responsible camping tips.
I like walking in the woods and already understand the benefits of being among trees and nature while putting away my phone. However, I’ve never camped or been one to want to go camping. Nick’s simple approaches and advice make it all more appealing. Certainly a wild cup of tea sounds very inviting.
He now lives in Cornwall surrounded by woodland and he has created a Woodland Warrior Programme of therapeutic activities centred on the natural world which helps other armed forces members.
In this book Nick shares some of his knowledge so that others with mental health problems might benefit from being out in nature. Chapters in the book include the benefits of sitting around a camp fire enjoying conversations, foraging for food, making a wild cup of tea and both survival and responsible camping tips.
I like walking in the woods and already understand the benefits of being among trees and nature while putting away my phone. However, I’ve never camped or been one to want to go camping. Nick’s simple approaches and advice make it all more appealing. Certainly a wild cup of tea sounds very inviting.
April 14, 2023
What an amazing book. Full of useful insights into how nature can heal even the most fractured of minds.
Nick, through his own journey of recovery has reached out via these pages to help others.
His work with Hidden Valley Bushcraft and the Woodland Warrior Program has been distilled into these pages. An handy, portable, easily digestible reminder of how to rewild and have a growth mindset anywhere.
Highly recommended.BZ Nick.
Nick, through his own journey of recovery has reached out via these pages to help others.
His work with Hidden Valley Bushcraft and the Woodland Warrior Program has been distilled into these pages. An handy, portable, easily digestible reminder of how to rewild and have a growth mindset anywhere.
Highly recommended.BZ Nick.
July 25, 2023
This is a 3 star book.
The writing is overly simple and the lessons are the normal banal sentimental messages. Nothing new in terms of advocating outdoor/wild experiences and the effect on mental health.
So why did I give it 4 stars?
I love this type of being wild - camping, making fires, generally roughing it. There were lots of really good tips offered by Goldsmith.
He’s a first time author, ex-marine with PTSD, who is doing a lot of good for others (especially ex-military). This is a brand new book and I wanted to give an extra star to boost it a bit more.
Summation: A great starter book to becoming more wild.
The writing is overly simple and the lessons are the normal banal sentimental messages. Nothing new in terms of advocating outdoor/wild experiences and the effect on mental health.
So why did I give it 4 stars?
I love this type of being wild - camping, making fires, generally roughing it. There were lots of really good tips offered by Goldsmith.
He’s a first time author, ex-marine with PTSD, who is doing a lot of good for others (especially ex-military). This is a brand new book and I wanted to give an extra star to boost it a bit more.
Summation: A great starter book to becoming more wild.
September 19, 2023
A very simple guide to how to live a better life using nature. I am very impressed by Nick Goldsmith and I think the work he does in fantastic. I would recommend this book to anyone but especially those who work(ed) in high pressure environments, suffered from mental health problems, and young men.
July 23, 2024
I really enjoyed this book😊
I found that the book was a good mixture of an autobiography, showing the importance of nature on our well being and very useful outdoor tips!
I liked how he linked everything back to our ancestors.
I found that the book was a good mixture of an autobiography, showing the importance of nature on our well being and very useful outdoor tips!
I liked how he linked everything back to our ancestors.
December 10, 2023
A lovely gentle walk through the re-wilding process
December 31, 2024
A cute book that has encouraged me to get out and be wild. It includes some good survival tips which I will be using.
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