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Between the Lines - Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability
BookShelf: Between the Lines — Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability For the latest edition of our occasional Q&A series, “Between the Lines,” SEJournal contributor William Allen interviewed editor Louise Kenward about the groundbreaking book, “Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability” (Simon & Schuster, $14.95).
Nature writing can feed the myth of the outside as a cure
Wild swimming and forest bathing have gained in popularity, all in a bid to improve our health. With "green prescriptions" now being issued by doctors instructing patients to spend time outdoors, the idea of "nature cure"—spending time in the natural world for healing purposes—may seem like a recent development. But ideas of a change of air and sea cures were popularized in the 19th century. Escalating rates of tuberculosis were exacerbated by poor sanitation and overcrowding.
Nature writing can feed the myth of the outside as a cure - but my own work has helped me reframe my illness
By Louise Kenward, PhD Candidate, Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University Wild swimming and forest bathing have gained in popularity, all in a bid to improve our health. With “green prescriptions” now being issued by doctors instructing patients to spend time outdoors, ideas of “nature… Read complete article © The Conversation -
Nature writing can feed the myth of the outside as a cure - but my own work has helped me reframe my illness
Wild swimming and forest bathing have gained in popularity, all in a bid to improve our health. With “green prescriptions” now being issued by doctors instructing patients to spend time outdoors, ideas of “nature cure” – spending time in the natural world for healing purposes – may seem like a recent development. But ideas of a change of air and sea cures were popularised in the 19th century. Escalating rates of tuberculosis were exacerbated by poor sanitation and overcrowding.
Louise Kenward on Creativity, Chronic illness and Care
On Moving Mountains… 'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN 'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES 'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE 'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
Festival of Nature
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WEATHERING
Today publishes her electrifying, exquisite, elegiac new book WEATHERING. What a book to bring into the world right now. It really feels like this one will ripple right out; the impacts of it will be felt for a long time to come. This is a telling of a life spent looking, listening, learning and loving. Ruth is a psychotherapist who works in the heart area of the wild both within and without.
Three Little Words for Nature Reserve
A new project at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve has been launched by Writer in Residence, Louise Kenward. Three Little Words is a public engagement project that encourages you to look again and think about the language of place, and to engage in creating new descriptors of the area. The project comes from a wish to find an accessible and inventive way of playing with words. Inspired by the What3Words location app, the project will run throughout the summer, collecting your own three word groupings.
Women’s health, medical ableism & patient-led research
With a new report published by Chronic Illness Inclusion, this guest post from Jennifer Brough, one of the researchers with CII, writes about the project’s findings. Nearly 800 people responded to the CII survey, circulated earlier in the year, aimed at collecting data on the experience of women and non-binary people living with Energy Limiting Chronic Illness in England. This was made in response to the call out from the Department of Health’s review into women’s health and wellbeing.
“I’d rather die than be sick for a year.”
There is a fundamental problem with our understanding of illness. It’s something the pandemic has highlighted. One of the things we never learn about the human body, until we have to, is that wellness and illness are not binary constructs. What we are seeing with Covid-19, as we have seen with viruses before, is the possibility of illness that has no cure or treatment: the kind of illness that doesn’t just go away.
'Medically unexplained symptoms' and psychotherapy
Until 2012 I worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist in the NHS, practicing Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). I then developed what was later diagnosed as Post-Viral Fatigue. Seven years on I continue to live with a debilitating, energy-limiting illness. Last year, I was asked to give a presentation on chronic fatigue to a conference of CAT therapists interested in physical health conditions.
Book review: Losing Eden by Lucy Jones
This is the guide book, the instruction manual, for anyone left in any doubt that nature is essential to our very being – it is our very being. We cannot be separated. And the impact of having been so disconnected continues to play out. Losing Eden is a much needed book. It shares with us, in accessible and compelling form, the science behind the necessity and relevance of nature.
Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson - book review
Constellations is a book about being human. It is about being a woman in society, in Ireland, and a good deal more. The politics and power of language, pain, illness, health, adventure, and love are illustrated in these beautifully formed essays threading together Gleeson’s personal experiences with that of other writers and artists in exploring the strengths and weaknesses of our wonderful and fragile human form.
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