Mirrors in the Earth

Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World

By: Asia Suler

Narrated by: Asia Suler

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

A nature therapy session for the soul—encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home—not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.

In a series of 12 lyrical nature essays, herbalist, writer, and Earth intuitive Asia Suler illuminates the healing power of the living Earth—and gives us permission to nurture self-compassion and empathy as forces for personal and ecological healing.

In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness—to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are—and that can heal the Earth.

Here, Suler reveals the opposite: our goodness, our empathy, our intuitive connections, and our capacity for self-compassion are more than personal traits or antidotes to despair: they are, in fact, our most potent vehicles for planetary transformation. And as we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth.

Combining poetic nature writing with exercises and reflection prompts at the end of each essay, Mirrors in the Earth coaxes us to come as we are: to discover and tend the inherent brilliance and medicine that lives in each of us. From the manatee-calm springs of wild Florida to the flower-dotted coves of the world’s most biodiverse mountains, Mirrors in the Earth is an invitation and encounter with the benevolence of the living world—and a nature therapy session for the soul.

©2022 Asia Suler (P)2022 North Atlantic Books

Critic reviews

"Suler's sense of wonder is infectious, and her prose exudes her boundless reverence for nature...Spiritual nature lovers will treasure this meditative volume."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"I am in awe of how one small book can hold so much wisdom. This book offers readers a pathway back to self-acceptance, interconnection, and belonging and empowers one along the way to make a stand for the Earth."—ROSEMARY GLADSTAR, herbalist and author of Medicinal Herbs

"Mirrors in the Earth offers a living example of how to reestablish communion and balance."—Maia Toll, author of the Wild Wisdom series

One of the best books

Life changing, heart touching, soul speaking book. Calming and inspiring all at once. A gift and a must listen!

Such a Profound Work!

I cannot begin to express how powerful the messages in this book have blessed my life! It is as if she wrote it for me! So very thankful to have had the honor of reading it!

Best book I have read.!!!

This is a beautiful book.. so full of knowledge....so beautifully read. so therapeutic and relaxing. I alre
ady know when I read it again I will learn something new. Thank you Asia

A love song to the Earth, the self and the soul of

This book is part love song, part poem, part earth science and part psychology all woven in small stories of intimacy and awakening with the Earth. Weaving Ethobotany, Eco Psychology, Animism and Activisim, this old soul in a young body speaks eloquently and emotionally about the value and vulnerability of being alive at this moment in Earth's story. Asia Suler is both scholarly and simple in the sharing of her deep relationship with her earthly belonging, giving voice to the ache and alchemy so many humans feel in this moment and time. She is deeply understanding and empowering, helping humans claim their kinship with nature and inspiring us all to act with love, kindness and hopefulness in these hard times. I bought five copies and wish I could buy five more to share with my nearest and dearest Eco feminism friends who have been singing this song for a while, but this is missing music. Grateful for her words, actions and capacity to bring the world these notes that are much needed in order to move towards better harmony both within and all around us. Shine on Asia, you a made for these times!

balm for our time

gentle and loving words reweaving us into the living earth and deep medicine for our souls

Loved it!

This was among my most soul satisfying Audible listening experiences. It is the kind of book to which I will return again and again to further mine it’s wisdom for a more flourishing life!

Intelligence

The writer is or has been on a unique journey. In this book; she shares her experience with how she has been impacted by her eastern studies along with her passion for earth and nature.

I wholeheartedly love this book

I highly recommend this book. It is my all time favorite. Well written and performed. It is so very informative and resonates deeply with me.

Nourishing and transformational

This book was recommended to me by a lady who will never know how much she means to me, and other than her presence on this planet, it was the best gift she could ever have shared with me.
Let the healing begin. Thank you, Asia.

A wonderful experience! Highly recommended!

I recommended this book to a friend and she asked if I could give her the cliff notes version because of her active life right now... I simply could not even think of the first note other than to say it is an experience unto itself. I will be rereading this many times over! The author's style brings so much beauty to the reading/listening experience that the emotional equivalent would be looking out onto a vista or experiencing the most beautiful sunset. Thank you Asia Suler for sharing your gifts with us! Much love to you and our beautiful evolving earth and our collective human expetience ❤️🏞🌲