Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

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

14 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cannibalism, and War

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and War

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed the combination of memoir style writing infused with nature writing providing lots of interesting info. The writing is beautifully descriptive and moving. As someone who grew up in the area (outside Syracuse) she writes about a lot, there was a nostalgic factor for me as well.

My one qualm (and this could be indicative of this being published a decade ago) is I think Wall Kimmerer shies away a bit from giving any real solutions besides to become "closer to nature" which reads a bit naive considering where we are as a world right now. Unfortunately we are just so far past the way indigenous people used to live that I struggle to see a path that leads anywhere near back there.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

marmitecake's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Blood, and Colonisation

jwolflink3's review against another edition

Frankly, I found her cavalier and self-satisfied treatment of suicidal ideation deeply offensive.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

olivi_yeah's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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: Forced institutionalization and Colonisation

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: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism and Grief

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