To order copies of the book, and prints and notecards of my wildlife art, email:
keleka@frontiernet.net
Theresa Sweeney
2500 East Ave, Suite 6Z
Rochester, NY 14610
For more information on the book and Ecopsychology, please visit http://ecopsych.com/artbook.html
Just published! Owl Winks and Forest Songs: Finding wellness in Nature's wisdom. A fun, self-help activity book for people of all ages. Learn the secret to living the joyous life that as part of Nature, you were meant to live. Let the Earth teach you who you really are and help heal what's been missing in your life.
Could the solution to most personal challenges and planetary woes have a common underlying cause--humanity’s disconnection from Nature? Could finding solutions begin with a simple walk in the park? Yes, says Ecopsychologist, Dr. Theresa Sweeney in her child-friendly new book, Owl Winks and Forest Songs: Finding wellness in nature’s wisdom, which encourages us all to spend more time outdoors.
“Though people are part of Nature, we suffer many discomforts and problems that aren't seen in the rest of the natural world. Many of us look around outside and wonder why things seem to work so beautifully there, but not so in our daily lives." She says, "The trouble is that we spend so much time indoors, we've disconnected ourselves from Nature's love, wisdom and balance.”
Owl Winks and Forest Songs offers a simple remedy. With child-friendly text, fun exercises, and wonderful drawings, Dr. Sweeney presents a dialoging with nature process that people of all ages, and in all walks of life, can use to let Nature teach. She re-introduces us to over 48 senses that we, as part of Nature, inherited from the natural world at birth, but learned to ignore. After illustrating how our dependency on abstract, word-based thinking underlies our troubles, and showing the importance of including these forgotten senses in our thought-processing, Dr. Sweeney invites readers to practice the art of thinking like Nature by writing dialogs with 16 of her realistic animal drawings. Because though, there can be no substitute for the real thing, she then encourages her readers outside to use their sensory nature-language while in tangible contact with the earth.
“Few books of such apparent simplicity can cause you to think so deeply,” says M.A. Educator, Allison Ewoldt. “What Columbus did for the flat earth theory, Dr. Sweeney does to the myth that humans have only 5 senses. We have, in fact, more than 53! This book makes you question many things about the way we live, the way we interact with Nature, and most of all, how much time we waste on things that don't matter. Learning to think like nature has rejuvenated my life. Dr. Sweeney makes a valuable contribution to the well-being of ourselves and the earth...for we do not save what we do not love, and we do not love what we do not know. This wonderful book needs to be in the home of every child and every adult."
