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The Wild Within

What Plants Taught Me about Life, Recovery and Renewal

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The Wild Within

By: Brigit Anna McNeill
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An immersive, enriching and sensory journey of healing, one wild plant at a time.

‘The wild is never finished. It insists on returning, on reweaving, on remaking what has been broken. And it was the wild that first taught me I could do the same. I didn’t come to plants as a scholar or a healer. I came as someone who had forgotten how to belong to herself. I came raw, fractured, emptied out by years of surviving. I came because I needed to find away back into my own body.’

In a series of viscerally alive chapters, exploring the wildlife, folklore and medicinal properties of common wild flowers and trees, Brigit Anna McNeill tells her own story of recovery and rewilding.

Herbalist, trained therapist, and popular Instagram and Substack writer McNeill explains how the natural cycle of dispersal, growth and bloom can inspire our recovery from trauma, stress and illness. By weaving together both the beauty and psychology of reciprocity and non-human connection, she deepens our interaction with the wildness to be found both in the city and the woodlands beyond.

The Wild Within illuminates a botanical path of self-care.

©2026 Brigit Anna McNeill (P)2026 Duckworth Books Alternative & Complementary Medicine Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Gardening & Horticulture Herbal Remedies Mental Health Music Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Outdoors & Nature Personal Development Personal Success Physical Illness & Disease Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Spirituality Sustainable & Green Living
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It wasn’t just the poignant and moving story that gripped me from start to finish, but the beautiful way the chapters are read by the author. As the seasons unfolded, each with their chosen focus of specific plants I became more and more drawn in. This book has a magic, resonance and depth to it that reach into the soul. I was so happy to have found it and didn’t want it to finish. I will be going straight back to the start now to listen to it all over again.

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