It began with a bite-the one Alayna Bellquist had lived in fear of since hearing a relative describe the ravages of chronic Lyme. As the illness stripped away everything she held dear, Alayna was forced to grapple with confronting questions: • How had her high-achieving, perfectionist focus on outward success compromised her inner resilience? • Which traumas and emotional wounds needed attention first, in order to then heal her physical self? • Could healing ourselves also heal the natural world around us? Resilient by Nature charts Alayna's path to the answers and illuminates a new approach to chronic Lyme-one supported by science and rooted in excavating the traumas and maladaptive coping mechanisms that increase vulnerability and hinder recovery. Woven throughout is a vital message: only by repairing our relationship with nature will we ever fully heal ourselves and Earth.
