Can connecting with nature save your life? Three authors share how ‘touching grass’ helped to pull them back from the brink

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We all know it’s important for mental and physical health to get out into the natural world and, as the Gen Z idiom advises, “touch grass”. Now several authors take that idea a step further in their new books — describing how getting more connected with nature actually saved their lives.

Depression, anxiety, grief, stress, rows with neighbours, arguments at home, work burnout, mid-life crises, tough childhood experiences, a sense of failure and separation from core values

Authors Kathy Slack, Gordon Buchanan and Andy Hamilton explain how embracing the healing power of the natural world can help ease the pain of everything from burnout and mid-life crises to grief and depression