Integrative and Nature-Based Mental Health Care

"Antidotes: Seeing Beauty, Finding Connection", my exhibition of 24 wildlife and landscape photos, ran from August 11 - December 2, 2023 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. My sincere thanks to all who visited! My own journey of reconnecting with the landscape of the Chihuahuan Desert has brought experiences of deep healing and meaning. I think about photography as a practice of seeing the land and animals with love, care, and attention, and acknowledging our

Honored to have a poem included in this anthology celebrating the human-animal relationship, written by members of the International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ). This poem remembers a special encounter with a rattlesnake while I was on a desert walk in Southern New Mexico.

In the midst of social distancing requirements and a time of grief and anxiety across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some have experienced a loss that compounds these difficulties: the death of an animal companion. I hope that readers who are missing a special animal during this time will feel a little less alone through having their experience recognized. This article will touch on the grief process, offer tips for self-care after loss, and provide a list of resourc