Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
A landmark work exploring the profound impact of nature connection on human development, coining "nature-deficit disorder" and charting a path toward individual, cultural, and ecological restoration.
Grounded: How Connection with Nature Can Improve Our Mental and Physical Wellbeing
A practical guide to emotional resilience and sensory restoration, exploring how eight core nature-based practices—presence, connection, movement, stillness, solitude, wild, mystery, and perspective—nurture both mental and physical health.
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being
Dr. Yuria Celidwen bridges Indigenous contemplative wisdom and Western science, challenging individualistic wellness trends to offer a relational framework for collective and planetary flourishing. This seminal work guides seekers and clinicians alike to become agents of reemergence through nature-based contemplation, neuro-decolonization, and ecological stewardship.
Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World
A pioneering text introducing a new psychoterratic vocabulary to articulate our psychological relationship with a changing planet, from environmental distress to profound ecological harmony.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A transformative collection of essays weaving Indigenous wisdom, botanical science, and personal story to illuminate plants as our oldest teachers and restore our web of reciprocity with the living earth.
With Nature in Mind: The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals
A practical manual blending mindfulness, psychological research, and over 100 experiential outdoor activities to reduce emotional distress and foster meaningful human-nature connection.
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
A powerful blueprint for dismantling the mental health industrial complex by confronting historical trauma, honoring ancestral wisdom, and reclaiming emotional health through political and land-centered practice.
The Seven Circles
Chelsea Luger and Thosh Collins present an Indigenous-led framework for wholistic well-being, organizing health into seven interconnected circles—Movement, Land, Community, Ceremony, Sacred Space, Sleep, and Food—evaluated across spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional dimensions.
A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth
Arthur W. Blume challenges colonial psychological norms by introducing an Indigenous American Psychology Paradigm (IAPP)—a Creation-centric, relational framework that replaces individualistic myths with deep interdependence, cyclical time, and collective restoration.
Decolonizing Trauma Work
A transformative exploration of healing that centers Indigenous knowledge, critiques colonial clinical models, and offers a relational, wholistic pathway toward true restoration.
Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality
This document is a sourcebook and reflection guide focused on decolonization, settler accountability, and building genuine allyship with Indigenous peoples in Minnesota
Restoring the Kinship Worldview
A conversational journey through 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth and returning to a kinship way of being and seeing the world.