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Heartwood is your guide to navigating the intersecting chronic health and climate crises. Through lyrical story, ecological wisdom, scientific discovery, and spiritual insight, eco-doula and environmental psychologist Lindsay Branham explores the vital truth that an embodied, sacred relationship with the Earth is the medicine we all need.
This newsletter is a wonder-filled evocation to come home to the beautifully entangled living world.
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Who is behind Heartwood?
Lindsay Branham, PhD is an environmental psychologist, filmmaker, and scholar exploring embodied and erotic ecology. She is trained as a Buddhist eco-doula and her doctoral research found that our body’s eight sense, interoception, can help us connect to nature.
She has directed over 40 documentary films on social and environmental issues and was nominated for an Emmy award for her investigative documentary “Behind the Fence” exposing the genocide of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar.
She joins eons of others who advocate that returning to nature is our pathway through the messes humans have wrought. Through breaking down climate science and social psychology, contemplative spirituality and animist wisdom, she hopes everyone can experience their birthright of entanglement with the Earth.
Lindsay’s first book, Heartwood: The Wisdom and Healing Kinship of Trees is coming in 2026 published by Hachette. It’s a book about trees, magic and mystery.
Heartwood explores intimate encounters with trees and forests, weaving her personal narrative facing chronic illness with environmental psychology. It’s an invitation to return to deep belonging with the living world. Heartwood is rooted in the Maroon Creek Canyon in Colorado, the stories from the land are co-authored with the forests there.
Lindsay is committed to the spiral-like relationship between personal and collective transformation and intersectional equity and justice. She adores Rilke’s poem I Live My Life in Widening Circles. You can find her in forests or libraries.
