As the world literally and figuratively burns, Branham isn't panicked or frozen. She is giving us a vibrant, vision-changing way to survive what's coming. She doesn't come with a sword, but a gentle invitation to learn to hear the wisdom of trees. If we follow her lead, we just might make it.

Jedidiah Jenkins

2x New York Times bestselling author of Like Streams to the Ocean, To Shake the Sleeping Self, Mother Nature

Heartwood is a radiant and deeply urgent book. Branham reminds us that healing—of our bodies, our spirits, and our planet—is not found in separation but in relationship. Through sharing her personal story and combining it with her intellectual rigor, she guides us to see how trees can not only be our kin but can also be our guides back to belonging.

Anna Malaika Tubbs

2x New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers and Erased

A wonderfully perceptive and generative book, filled with invitations to open our bodies and imaginations to the many gifts offered by trees. A powerful reminder, too, of the healing powers of trees for individuals and communities.

David George Haskell

Biologist and two-time Pulitzer finalist, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, The Forest Unseen

With Heartwood, Lindsay Branham invites us to remember our deepest ties to the planet we call home, bringing us back to our bodies, asking us to recall our roots and the trees who long to guide us. Her instruction is both personal and researched, backed by scientific exploration and spiritual connection that is earthbound, practical and holistic.

Jacqueline Suskin

Author of A Verse for Now, A Year in Practice, Every Day is a Poem

I very much believe that how you do anything is how you do everything. Heartwood is a gift to us all to widen our hearts with more love for this suffering world.

Richard Rohr

2x New York Times bestselling author of The Universal Christ and The Tears of Things

With poetic tenderness, depthful knowledge, and embodied presence, Heartwood will guide readers to their inherent belonging, interconnectedness, and relationship with the living earth. In a landscape of forgetting, this book offers a remembrance and a homecoming toward our own nature and interwoven humanity.

Lisa Olivera

Author of Already Enough and When the Ache Remains

Lindsay's mesmerizing book is both a comfort and a call to action in a time of climate crisis. A map to guide us out of overwhelm and despair, and into a reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human world that is the missing piece in conversations about environmental activism.

Ruby Warrington

Author of Sober Curious and Women Without Kids

In this luminous love song to trees, Lindsay Branham transmutes science into poetry, converts the scholarly into the sacred, and engages language to point beyond itself to a place of profound silence our souls yearn for. Bold and dignified, intelligent and sensual, this book helped me fall in love with the world again.

Mirabai Starr

Author of Wild Mercy and Ordinary Mysticism

In Heartwood, Lindsay has crafted a narrative that paints nature as the center point of our healing. Woven together with a beautiful prosaic touch, she has magically connected the dots between our liberation and the centuries old knowledge rooted firmly in the mother of our existence: the trees.

Joél Leon

Author of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize nominated Everything and Nothing At Once

In mellifluous prose, embedded with sparkling glimpses of poetry, we encounter an interwoven discourse and guided meditation on trauma, chronic illness and autoimmunity, healing and recovery, and the rediscovery—the re-enchantment—of our relationship with nature. This beautifully written book is not to be missed!

Sylvestre Quevedo, MD, MPH

Research Physician, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

In this luminous book, Lindsay Branham offers what so many are now yearning for—a way to come back into felt connection with the living world. Effortlessly combining scientific research, Buddhist practice, and indigenous wisdom, she unveils the remarkable discovery that enhancing our interoceptive sensitivity restores our ability to hear and understand the language of the land. It offers a realistic path, weaving us back into wholeness.

Brother Spirit

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