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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With reverence and courage, this book draws us back into the circle of life, where trees stand not as resources but as relations. Interweaving the rigor of doctoral research with the depth of personal healing, Branham's prose calls us home.

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.

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.

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. Her extraordinary background brings depth to current discussions of attachment theory, trauma, climate justice, psychedelics, the end of extractive capitalism in our economic relationships with the Earth and Indigenous perspectives that regard relationship as the foundation for both understanding and being in the world. This beautifully written book is not to be missed!

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. This is more than just a book, it is the fruit of the author's deep journey of personal healing, meticulous research and spiritual insight; and as such, it offers a realistic path, weaving us back into wholeness.

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. There is so much to reckon with as we face layers of collapse; Heartwood provides a map, a prayer, and a path back toward kinship with trees, with the earth, with life itself.