Ellen Dee Davidson – författare

Reconnect with nature for healing, creativity, and expanded awareness• Award Winner in Non-Fiction: New Age category of the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards • 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award - Earth Changes / Health & Wellness / Memoirs & Personal Journey and 2026 Coalition of Visionary Resources Silver Award - Contemporary Spirituality • 2026 Nautilus Silver Award • 2025 American Book Fest Award • 2025 BIBA Best Independent Book Award • 2025 NYC Big Book Award • Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spiritsAdvancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.

• Presents receptivity techniques and forest bathing protocols to help you cultivate a sensitivity to nature• Shares the author’s awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication• Shows how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spiritsAdvancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature.Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.Revealing how ancient trees can help expand our consciousness, the author shares her awakenings within an ancient redwood forest, including prescient dreams and telepathic tree communication. She also explores deities, elementals, and spirits connected to forests and trees, including dryads, the Norse goddess Freyja, and Elen of the Ways, one of the earliest goddesses in Britain.This book shows how, when humans listen deeply to nature and allow the living biosphere to be our guide, restoration of ourselves and our world is possible.

American Book Festival Best Book Award  Silver Nautilus Award  Moonbeam Silver Award  Green Earth Book Award 2025  Readers' Choice 2025 Finalist  Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award  North American Environmental Association RecommendedA true story of restoration—told in English and Spanish.In the desolate plains of eastern Colombia, a community called Gaviotas did something scientists said was impossible. Under the vision of Paolo Lugari, they planted trees on a barren savanna, built clean-energy systems from scratch, and watched a rainforest—gone for thousands of years—grow back to life.The Miracle Forest / El Bosque Milagroso tells that story in both English and Spanish, side by side, with vibrant illustrations that capture the transformation of the land and the people who refused to give up on it. Nonfiction for ages 8–12 that offers something rare: a true environmental story with a genuinely hopeful ending."e;This beautiful, bilingual picture book offers an extraordinary true story of the miracles nature can provide when we do our best to restore the environment. This book will inspire children, parents, guardians, and teachers worldwide!"e;—Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason"e;This true story is an exciting example of what is possible when we commit to realizing our dreams against all odds. May this book inspire all who read it—young and old—to restore our world with unstoppable creativity!"e;—Cynthia Jurs, author of Summoned by the EarthIdeal for bilingual families, dual-language classrooms, and anyone seeking stories of environmental hope. Free lesson plans in English and Spanish are available at 12willowspress.com.

Gold Nautilus Award  Mom's Choice Gold Award  Independent Press Award Winner  IAN Book of the Year  Readers' Favorite Gold Award  Moonbeam Silver Award  Readers' Choice Silver  Green Earth Book Award  CIBA Gertrude Warner Award Finalist  The Wishing Shelf FinalistWhat if a tree asked you to listen—and you did?Twelve-year-old Katie is sitting in class, ignoring her teacher, when the oak tree outside the window asks her to listen. She does—and that small act of attention is about to change everything.When an earthquake splits the ground beneath her feet, Katie falls into another world. There she meets Za, a sharp-tongued, purple-skinned alien who is just as lost as she is. Together they set out on a quest to find the Winged Ones — the only beings who can get them both home.Along the way, they encounter a shape-shifting tree spirit, a playful water god, elemental dragons, and nature beings whose wisdom is older than anything Katie learned in school. And shadowing every step: the Poison One, a force that turns everything it touches to ruin."e;Vividly imagined and lyrically told."e; —BookLife Prize"e;A bright, vividly told tale that will bring readers closer to the natural world."e; —Kirkus Reviews"e;An outstanding short work that packs a lot of punch."e; —Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book ReviewFor readers ages 10–14 who love adventure, magic, and stories that leave them thinking.