Returning to Our Birthright Relationship with Nature: A Conversation with Julie Brams
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Julie Brams discusses her journey into earth-centered psychotherapy and the importance of reconnecting with nature.
Our guest today on this week's episode is Julie Brams — an earth-centered psychotherapist, certified forest therapy guide, meditation teacher, and the author of The Nature-Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves. Julie states that her work is in helping restore the human mind to its rightful place within the living world. She is also co-founder of Elemental , an earth-centered learning community helping participants heal the division between humans and the rest of nature. This is a rich, unhurried conversation — the kind you might want to take on a walk, or sit with under a tree. We hope it meets you right where you are. In This Episode Julie's path from 34 years as a licensed marriage and family therapist into earth-centered psychotherapy and forest therapy guiding Why she moved away from the term "ecopsychology" to "earth-centered" and "re-rooting." The idea of "the rest of nature" — and how this small language shift addresses the human/nature divide How Western civilization's model of extraction and domination differs from cultures built on kinship and reciprocity The historical roots of mind/body/earth separation — from ancient Greek philosophy…
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