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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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

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