Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

8 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Excrement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Death, Colonisation, Suicide, War, Genocide, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

residential schools, trail of death, carlisle, pollution.

ce_read's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is full Sacred Text material. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

itkit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Suicide

dhiyanah's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

There's a profound heaviness we feel about our collective wounds and responsibilities in how the planet is changing, suffering, and asking for help during these times. I'm grateful this book doesn't shy away from that, giving language to the overwhelm we're navigating, tracing it back to our ruptured connection with land and the patterns upheld to keep us in constant states of struggle, survival, and forgetfulness.

By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos. 

For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Genocide

Moderate: Racism and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Violence

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, War, Grief, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Cannibalism, Excrement, Abandonment, Child death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Animal death, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Hate crime, Suicide, and War

herk's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Racism

daphnehumming's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is maybe the most incredible book I have ever read in my life.

The gift given to my by the other that I cherish most is the idea that the natural places I love might love me back.

It is one of the most challenging books I have ever read, not in that it was difficult to read but because it challenged the foundation of how I have been taught to engage with the natural environment and other people. I am inspired; to garden, to give, and to reconsider how I view my place in the natural world. I also feel a great weight of responsibility. 
I only take issue with one page of this book, where it is

implied that improper connection with the Earth is what made someone commit suicide. I don’t really think that is for someone who is not that person to decide

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Overall I would highly recommend the book to any reader, and especially to any person who feels a connection with nature.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Suicide