The Wild Cure
The Wild Cure book gives you six simple questions that turn time in Nature into a relationship, not an escape — restoring calm, clarity, and belonging.
The Forgotten Medicine to Restore Calm, Clarity, and Connection
You’ve done the work. Read the books, kept the routines, taken the trip, tried the app. Some of it helped, for a while.
And there’s still a quiet, persistent sense that something isn’t landing.
The Wild Cure book is about what’s underneath that — and it isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a relationship that went quiet.
You already love the Natural World. You hike, you garden, you chose where you live partly for the trees. But there’s a difference between visiting Nature and belonging to it, and almost everything about modern life keeps us on the visiting side of that line.
This book is a practical guide to crossing back. Not by escaping your life — by changing how you move through the one you already have.
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The Kinship Questions™
At the heart of the book are six questions. They’re simple enough to remember, portable enough to use anywhere, and they work as well beside a tree outside your office as they do on a wilderness trail.
- How can you opt into Nature’s intelligence?
- How do you open your inner self to engage in a two-way conversation?
- How can you remain grounded in the present moment?
- What is your natural rhythm?
- What do you notice?
- How do you integrate this wisdom into daily life?
Read them and they can look almost too plain to matter. That’s the point. Simple doesn’t mean shallow — it means sustainable. These questions draw on wiring that’s roughly thirty thousand years old, and they hold up in a boardroom, a hospital waiting room, and a rainforest alike.
Each one moves you a step further from tourist toward kin.
What’s inside The Wild Cure book
The book runs in three parts.
Part I — Why do you need this? Why the quick fixes don’t hold, who this work is actually for, the hurdles that show up early, and what I’ve come to call the energy exchange budget: a way of accounting for what drains you and what genuinely restores you. Most people are running a weekly deficit they’ve never named.
Part II — The Kinship Questions™ The framework itself, step by step. What each question is for, how to move through the sequence, and the components that separate a pleasant walk from a real conversation with the land.
Part III — Bringing it home The practical chapters. How to begin this week without buying anything or going anywhere. Where to find places to practice. How to do this with kids underfoot. Why morning pages amplify the whole thing. And what to do when you want to go deeper.
Woven through the chapters is a photo journey from a single eleven-mile hike at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, taken while I was writing the book. The images are uncaptioned on purpose — they’re pauses, not illustrations.
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Each week on my Substack, I share reflections, photo journeys, and short stories from the Natural World. Free, no pitch, and a decent sense of whether my voice is one you want to spend a book with.
Who this book is for
It’s for you if:
- You’ve done everything right and still find yourself asking, is this it?
- You want calm and clarity that outlast the weekend
- You sense the Natural World has something for you but can’t quite live it Monday through Friday
- You’re willing to slow down and actually look
It isn’t for you if:
- You want a hack that skips the reflection
- You believe hustle is the point
- Nature is scenery or a gym to you
- You’re looking for therapy, medical treatment, or a research monograph
I’d rather you know that up front than be disappointed on page forty.
What readers say
“The Wild Cure is the best thing I’ve read which can help you build a wonderful relationship with the natural world. The toxicity of today needs a Wild Cure and this is where to find it.” — Owen Fitzpatrick, Psychologist, author of Inner Propaganda
“The medicine I — a 50-year-old navigating a career crossroads in the relentless pulse of New York City — didn’t know I desperately needed. It offers not an escape plan, but an integration strategy.” — Edward Elles, Managed Health Care Executive
“I was fascinated that I can follow the Kinship Questions in my own backyard, or walking around the neighborhood. In the past I felt I needed to get far away and out of the city. Not any more.” — Melissa Hauge, SVP Sales, Global Brand
“I read The Wild Cure the first night I bought it, and now I feel like I have it in my back pocket.” — Linda,
A passage from the book
Our culture budgets everything — money, calories, workouts — yet rarely our intake of Nature’s Wisdom.
Imagine beginning your week with 100 energy points. A beautiful weekend hike filled your tank, but Monday’s demands quickly drain it. In about forty-five minutes of small Kinship Path moments spread across an ordinary day, you gain fifteen energy points, ending the day replenished rather than depleted. Without them, you lose fifty-five.
Multiply that over a week, and it’s no wonder many of us reach Friday running on empty.
From Chapter 1, “A New Reality.”
About the author
I grew up on a dairy farm in Oregon, where the trees felt alive and I spoke to them out loud. Then I learned that was the kind of thing that gets you looked at strangely, so I set it down and spent twenty-five years in corporate aviation instead, traveling to more than sixty countries and getting very good at thinking my way through everything.
When that career ended, I went back to the forest — not for a weekend, but for years. Somewhere in the thousands of hours that followed, the same six questions kept surfacing regardless of where I was standing. The Wild Cure is what those questions became.
Today I write, guide retreats, and mentor people privately through this work from the Pacific Northwest.
Questions people ask
What formats is it available in?
eBook and audiobook, narrated by Matthew Kessi.
How long does it take to read?
Most people finish in a weekend. But it’s built to be used rather than finished — several readers have described keeping it in their back pocket and returning to the Kinship Questions when a week goes sideways.
Do I need to be outdoorsy?
No. No gear, no camping, no wilderness. The framework works with a tree outside your window, a city park, or a houseplant on your desk.
Is this a spiritual book?
It’s grounded in a spiritual view of the Natural World, and it asks nothing of your beliefs. Readers approach it as mindfulness, as reflection, as personal development, and as spiritual practice. All of those work.
Does it involve plant medicine or substances?
No. Nothing is ingested. The altered states this work touches are the ones that arise naturally when your pace matches the land’s.
What’s the difference between the book and your mentorship?
The book gives you the full framework and everything you need to practice it alone. Mentorship is for when you’d rather not go alone — it’s a six-month, twelve-session journey where we apply the Kinship Questions to your actual life, with guided Nature journeys and support between sessions. → Learn about Nature Mentorship
Is this a substitute for therapy or medical care?
No. It’s complementary. Anyone seeking diagnosis or treatment should consult a licensed healthcare professional.
Where to go from here
Read the book. Everything above, in full, at your own pace. Get The Wild Cure →
Or start with what’s underneath it. If you’re not sure this describes you yet, the piece on why you feel disconnected from Nature is the honest version of the problem the book solves.
Or have a conversation. A Nature Alignment Call is a relaxed forty-five minutes — where you are, what feels stuck, whether this work fits. No pressure, no obligation.
