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17/11/2025

ONLINE Q&A - this Wednesday, 19th November at 5:30pm🌲🍂🌳

Looking to connect with your creative side? Interested to hear the writing and illustration process behind ‘The Forest’s Secret’?

If so, join me and my fellow collaborators, illustrators Amelia North & Estelle Sheppard, and first time author publishing specialists Softwood Books for an Online Q&A this Wednesday 19th November at 5.30pm via the Zoom Link below (copy and paste it!).

We will be talking about our the process, our journey and our hopes for our book The Forest’s Secret: Helping Children Discover The Magic Of Nature.

See you there!🌴

Time: Nov 19, 2025 05:30 PM London
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16/11/2025

15/11/2025

If you wish to hear more about the benefits of encouraging children to spend more time in nature, you can tune in to hear my interviews and chats:

Sunday (tomorrow) at 11.15am on BBC Sounds on BBC Radio Nottingham on the Kelly Hinch show

Wednesday 19th at 4.30pm on Voice of Islam UK radio show

I am looking forward to the discussions

14/11/2025

🌲A childhood spent in nature grows courage, curiosity, and wonder - and the science backs this up!🌲

In ‘The Forest’s Secret’, I explore how nature can help us all thrive, and why it’s more important than ever.
Discover the healing power of nature through mindful moments, nature games, and more facts like these in my debut book!🌱🌿🍃

13/11/2025

09/11/2025

A private affair yesterday at Winkworth Arboretum. Nature provided a perfect loving space for grieving, healing and connecting for a lovely Mum and Daughter who recently lost their husband and father.



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13/10/2025

13/10/2025

There is so much to just evidence! Please get out in nature

03/10/2025

Feeling excited!

Coming soon...my first ever book is due to be published 5 November. I will of course share more details of the content and where to buy over the next month and am planning to have a online launch (more details to follow) as well as some storytelling and launch events at some well known book retailers and schools I am associated with.

For now, I would like to share the purpose of the book:

To encourage parents, grandparents, carers, educators and children (3-8 years) to explore nature, feel and experience its calming and healing power, particularly from a mental health perspective. It is a 40pp combination of a story and educational information around the benefits of spending time outside as well as suggestions for interacting/playing with nature.

A gentle and immersive picture book that introduces children to the calming magic of forest bathing (no water involved!). Through a story of a young girl and her grandmother, readers learn how nature can soothe, support, and strengthen us—physically and emotionally. Combining storytelling, science-backed wellbeing tips, interactive and sensory games, The Forest’s Secret invites families and educators to rediscover nature as a healing space for mind, body, and heart.

05/09/2025

A beautiful day for our forest bathing session at Claremont Landscape Gardens NT today

17/08/2025

A wonderful first week in Wales. Sunshine, beach, forest and rolling hills...

19/07/2025