Emma Mitchell is a popular designer\u2013maker, craft teacher, and naturalist. She lives in a tiny village on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens, where she runs nature-inspired craft workshops and creative winter retreats. Emma has been published in the Guardian, Mollie Makes, Country Living, and Kirstie Allsopp\u2019s book Craft. She\u2019s also the creator and editor of Mollie Makes Comic Relief Crafternoon magazine, which has raised \u00a3100,000 so far for projects in the United Kingdom and Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression for 25 years. In 2003, she left\u00a0the city and began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting and drawing as she went. Each walk was as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical.\u00a0Emma\u2019s moving and candid account of her year is a powerful testament to how reconnecting with nature may offer some answers to today\u2019s mental health epidemic. While charting her own seasonal highs and lows, she also explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into such areas as forest bathing and the ways in which our bodies and minds respond to wildlife. Filled with Emma’s beautiful drawings, paintings and photography, this is a truly unique book for anyone who has ever felt drawn to nature and wondered about its influence over us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[37],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n