Post-Traumatic Ecology: Learning Emotional Resilience from the Living World: Learn More About Nature Based Healing

Emotional resilience is the ability to recover and adapt in the face of stress, adversity, and change. Many people develop this skill in a therapist’s office or from a self-help manual, but what if the truest teachers of resilience are outside our doors – flowing, feathered, rooted, wild?

Biomimicry is often understood as the practice of emulating nature’s forms and systems to solve human challenges. What happens when we extend this principle to include our emotional and relational wellbeing. What if ecosystems could show us how to metabolize fear, restore nervous system balance, and regenerate after trauma?

As a trauma-informed eco-art therapist working at the intersection of psychology, ecology, and expressive arts, I find myself asking: What does nature know about healing that we’ve forgotten?  The answer, it turns out, is a lot.

To read the full essay on nature based healing, head to Biomimicry.Org