The Healing Earth: Nature's Medicine for the Troubled Soul

By Philip Sutton Chard

Book Overview

Integrating the environmental movement with personal development and self-help psychology, this work explains that by developing a deeper bond with the natural world, people can find solutions to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559714344
• ISBN13: 9781559714341
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Northword Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

hidden treasure

This book deserves much more attention. I intend to recommend it to my career coaching clients. The author emphasizes that we don't always figure out what we need by "mouth aerobics." Getting out and experiencing nature will help us find where we are.

A Must Read For All Therapists

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, spiritual seeker and avid outdoors person and I have been looking for a way to bring these aspects together. Phillip Sutton Chard's book "The Healing Earth" has shown me the way. Chard not only applies psychological insight to the practice of psychotherapy but actually uses nature as the "therapist." His case studies illustrate how nature has the power to heal and change our lives, validates our own experiences and empowers us to use the natural world in the practice of psychotherapy. Chard's book redefines "sanity" as if the whole world mattered.

The Healing Earth:Natures Medicine for the Troubled Soul

I am a existential psychotherapist and have been seeking the way for myself and others to lead a being vs. having lifestyle.Thank you Mr. Chard for showing me the way.This book is so well written and has such a powerful message it should be the prerequisite reader for anyone interested in the newly formed ecotherapy movement.It is also written so that both the professional and lay person can benefit.His preface alone was great!

Say it with flowers

Reading this book brings forward some of my most wondrous moments with Mother Earth. One cannot be touched by the Grand Canyon or a 360 degree turquoise and magenta sunset without being changed forever. I have always known that my "spiritual home" exists outside in the fresh air amongst the perfection of flower faces. Philip Chard shares these feelings and more, and does it so eloquently.

Do it now

In nearly thirty years as a clinical psychologist and therapist, I learned quickly not to recommend books. I found the self-help volumes to be frustrating and confusing as they offered generalities, platitudes and panaceas, while the more directive books tended to be pedantic, presumptuous and preposterous. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. HIGHLY AND WITHOUT RESERVATION OR EQUIVOCATION.The author successfully sings the song of human life. The effort allows readers to more fully see themselves, to more fully appreciate both their uniqueness and their commoness and to begin an exploration of healing and growth through the natural connections and processes available to us all.Buy this book, borrow this book, steal this book. Somehow acquire the experience for yourself. Begin to accept. Begin to change. Begin to live. Do it now.