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keep looking up: your guide to the powerful healing of birdwatching
keep looking up: your guide to the powerful healing of birdwatching
a birding journey at home and beyond
it began with a flutter of yellow feathers flitting through the trees, casting beams of sunshine and promise that burst through her kitchen window. this was her sign to look up.
as a licensed therapist, tammah watts knew that she needed to seek and accept hope, love, and support to overcome her chronic pain and cultivate resilience. but she could not predict that the little yellow bird would put her on the path to healing by fostering a powerful connection with birds and the experience of birding.
tammah shares her emotional journey of finding comfort and inspiration from her feathered friends, while providing practical tips and tools to help you:
- explore the practice of birdwatching from the comfort of your own home and community
- increase your self-awareness, mindfulness, and concentration
- Find acceptance and alignment with the spirit and beauty of birds
right outside your door flies just what you've been looking for to help ease symptoms of stress, pain, depression, and anxiety. all you have to do is look up, take notice, and open your heart and mind.
no matter where you are, what you look like, or what you're going through, you can create sacred space and connection with birds and begin to heal.is a visual storyteller and creative producer who hails from the great lakes region. throughout her career as a photographer and producer, she has documented global healthcare initiatives to capture impact and inspire action. to begin work in her own community, she began an urban flower farm in chicago, offering a one-mile bouquet to seasonal subscribers during the summer. here, she discovered a love for capturing movement, connection, design, and color in the natural world. she continues her work in health care, while deepening her discovery of nature and our continual desire to rearrange it. recent work featured in: the guardian, now this, national geographic, bbc world news, abc news, new city, chicago reader, chicago social, npr, harvard t.h. chan school of public health Online Journal, Rotary.org, the rotarian magazine and rotary international world polio day (2018 shorty award), global one: women on the frontlines photography exhibit & artist panel, asia house - london, seattle k5, atlanta journal., cnet, one last push campaign.