Asia Suler - Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World

Sulers sense of wonder is infectious, and her prose exudes her boundless reverence for nature...Spiritual nature lovers will treasure this meditative volume.

Publishers Weekly

I am in awe of how one small book can hold so much wisdom. Every paragraph is beautifully written and more importantly so deeply meaningful. Insightful, uplifting, and life affirming, Mirrors in the Earth reaches deep and stretches high. As much about ecological healing as personal healing, this book offers the reader a pathway back to self-acceptance, interconnection, and belonging and empowers one along the way to make a stand for the Earth.

Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author of Medicinal Herbs

Asia Sulers heart shines forth as she guides and inspires the reader to look inside themselves and into the mirror of Nature to deepen their compassion for themselves. Suler shares stories of her personal transformation, including the painful parts, with clarity, warmth, and vulnerability. This beautiful book ultimately invites the reader to see and experience how our individual healing brings healing to our world. Mirrors in the Earth is offered as an antidote for despair; it is grounded in ecology and the authors love of the world.

Robin Rose Bennett, author of Healing Magic

If you seek to heal the land, awaken sacred spaces, or regenerate nature, this book will bring you to the origin of your connection with the world. This is the place to start.

Sarah Thomas, founder of the Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine

Asia Sulers writing is very literally medicinal: her words bear the healing properties of the Earth. This is a book to live bya book to bring you back home. Part personal healing journey, part prose poem in praise of the living world, and part wisdom teaching, Mirrors in the Earth is the wildly compassionate, fiercely loving map we all need in these times to guide us back to our innate and joyful wholeness.

Sylvia V. Linsteadt, author of Our Lady of the Dark Country

Asia Suler lays a cloak of pine boughs upon your shoulders, takes your hand, and guides you to an inner sanctum of spring ephemerals, ancient moonlit groves, and resurrecting webs of mycelium. Youll emerge transformed, your pockets full of jade-green insights about the natural world, and your heart gleaming with the truth of your wildness and earthy-soft goodness. Asia has created a keepsake, one that will serve as an intrepid and tender guide for the ages.

Juliet Blankespoor, author of The Healing Garden

This revelatory treasure of a book guides readers on a healing journey back to the Earth wisdom available to us allwhether in a fleck of mountain mica or the geological memory of ancient meteoric encounters. With her wide-ranging experience and elegant writing, Asia Suler helps us to recover an intimate, loving, and generous relationship with the natural world. This is a book I will return to and pass along, urging my friends to read it now.

Perdita Finn, coauthor with Clark Strand of The Way of the Rose

Its not unusual for books about eco consciousness to leave the reader stranded somewhere between helplessness and despair. What a refreshing relief, then, to find a book that guides us toward mutual healing for both ourselves and the Earth through the seemingly simple act of cultivating a deep and abiding relationship with the landscape around us. From the delightful introduction to the detailed descriptions of trout lilies (like tiny faeries, gazing closely at the moss around their feet), beech trees (round and elegant as a brandy bottle), and the particular shimmer of mica (like the Milky Way, spilled generously across dark soil), Suler weaves an ecosystem of healing in which both humans and the natural world play important roles. With personal stories of mending from both disease and trauma, as well as exercises to guide the reader in their own explorations, Mirrors in the Earth offers a living example of how to reestablish communion and balance.

Maia Toll, author of the Wild Wisdom podcast series

Asia Sulers exquisite ability to create rich and vibrant images with her metaphors placed me in the center of my belonging which felt like a homecoming. Sometimes raw, but always tender and honest, Sulers experiences are like a beacon lighting the way to the reflecting pool where nature serves not only as a mirror but as a benevolent teacher. This book is a gem you will want to read over and over as each time brings another polishing of Earths mirrors.

Pam Montgomery, herbalist, teacher, and author of Plant Spirit Healing

Asias words are comforting and instructive in equal measure. Even in the darkest of times, her work has a way of illuminating the inner landscape and revealing to us a path where before there was none. Miraculously, she offers us not just stories, but spells, which weave their way through our world and leave our lives so much brighter than before. The book you hold within your hands is a true treasure whose gifts will live within you and guide you on your way long after youve turned the final page.

Sophia Rose, herbalist and writer

Mirrors in the Earth is a beautiful reminder that walking the path of nature initiation is a lifelong apprenticeship. As someone who was projected onto more than mirrored as a child, it was so validating to hear Asia Suler speak about nature as our eternal mirror. She offers a unique glimpse into the journey that allowed this divine truth to move from being just an idea into something that is tangible, personal, and real for her. We are reminded that we each have a unique relationship with our birth mothers, the same is true about the Great Mother. This book awakens us to the remembrance that a relationship with nature is both personal and universal at the same time.

Maryam Hasnaa At-Tauhidi, founder of New Earth Mystery School and Resonance Apothecary

Read Asia Sulers lovely book and your world will tilt. Youll not only see that the world is your mirror but that the world is looking at you. You will learn from willow that what breaks can give birth and from beech that it may be okay to hold onto your leaves for longer than the almanac says. Now she comes with a willow twig between her teeth to help us to heal by making our confessions to the forgiving land, by aligning ourselves with Earth cycles of regeneration, and by recalling that the plots of our lives, like gardens, require boundaries. A beloved herbalist and Earth keeper, Suler reveals herself as an enchanting poet of consciousness who rouses us to heal our lives by telling better stories about them.

Robert Moss, best-selling author of Dreaming the Soul Back Home

Mirrors in the Earth is a poetic and heartfelt exploration of our healing journey as humans toward self-acceptance, overcoming our trauma, and most importantly, remembering that the first place toward healing the Earth begins with ourselves. Asia artfully guides the reader on the pathway to reigniting our memory that we are a part of the Earth and the Earth is a part of us, and that healing is the most important work we can be doing at this time.

Sajah Popham, author of Evolutionary Herbalism

Mirrors in the Earth is a book of hope in times that feel hopeless, a nature-blessed call to healing and sacred action. Asias gentle spirit shows us the way to transform and align ourselves, not separate from the world, but in service with the world. You will emerge from the ceremony of this book rewoven into the tapestry of nature, and deeply allied with our mutual healing.