When examining her own life, author Cara Wilson-Granat had an amazing guide and mentor. It wasn’t the latest motivational speaker or life coach. It was the world outside her front door! In the great outdoors, Wilson-Granat learned powerful lessons about the human spirit and her own journey. She is now sharing these insights with you.
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Here is just what we need when we’re feeling overwhelmed: the voice of a kind, loving wise friend, reconnecting us to wisdom from life’s greatest teacher—nature. Cara reminds us that, in our times of need, inspiration—in the form of everything from rocks to waves, from otters to insects—is all around us, helping us to heal, grow and thrive.
Right from the start, in the introduction, I knew this book was going to speak to me. You said that nature has helped you see that being human is a natural thing, and I agree I truly feel the most human outside. Religion and I have had a bumpy relationship over the years but I think we have come to a happy place and Nature has had a lot to do with that. I always struggled with articulating what that Nature/God relationship is and means to me, but your explanation is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Some of the Nature Teachers’ lessons held more weight than others for me but the lessons of the Nautilus and the Lobster were just what I needed right now. I’ve gone through a lot of different transitions in this past year, with more on the way as I prepare to graduate in May. I don’t know what else to say about them other than that they are extremely relevant to this season of my life and I am so very grateful you so beautifully reminded me of my Strength.
I also particularly loved the quotes from others you included throughout the book. I treasure this book, will reread it as life goes on, and already have plans to make everyone I know give it a look.
Strength from Nature took me on a wonderful journey of appreciation for our connection to nature and all it’s wonder. It’s not easy to be both profound and simple in the same breath, but Cara does it masterfully in this beautiful compilation of analogies between the life of butterflies, palm trees, yams and more, to our own existence as human beings. I walked away from this book with a greater awareness of nature’s beauty and strength and how intrinsically connected we are to it; for that I am eternally grateful.