Audiobooks with keyword Mental Health

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This audiobook by Frank Close, narrated by Corrie James, delves into the science, history, and myths surrounding eclipses, explaining the profound differences between partial and total solar eclipses. It offers practical advice on how to experience and record eclipses, and outlines future viewing opportunities.

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This audiobook offers an engaging overview of the Amazon rainforest, a vast and vital ecosystem home to incredible biodiversity and millions of people, including isolated tribes. Author Mark J. Plotkin, a seasoned ecologist, explores the Amazon's critical role in global climate and the significant challenges it faces.

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This audiobook chronicles the American Museum of Natural History's expeditions from 1908 to 1933, revealing how its president, Henry Fairfield Osborn, used these adventures to promote his beliefs in racial hierarchy. It examines the complicated legacies of explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, taxidermist Carl Akeley, and Osborn, exposing the racial anxieties behind this golden age of exploration and their lasting impact.

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This audiobook explores the surprising diversity and ecological importance of squirrels, revealing their complex relationship with humans. It highlights their role in ecosystems, cultural impact, and the urgent need for their protection in the face of climate change.

Categories: Misc. Non-fiction
Keywords: AnimalsNature
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This audiobook offers a sweeping environmental history of Russia, exploring how its vast forests have shaped its culture, power, and identity across centuries. It reveals a rarely seen vision of Russia as a land defined by its wilderness and beholden to nature.

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This unabridged audiobook is an exploration of wood's place in nature, culture, and our lives, following environmentalist Roger Deakin on a global quest to understand humanity's profound connection with trees. From his home in Suffolk to distant lands, Deakin shares personal experiences, history, and natural insights into the essence of wood.

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This unabridged audiobook, "Discarded," explores the new geological phenomenon of "technofossils"—our discarded man-made objects that will persist into the far future. Authors Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz, narrated by Clare Staniforth, delve into how these persistent artifacts are transforming our planet and what future geologies they will create.

Categories: AdultsScience
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Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney to confront her decade-long addiction, finding solace and renewal through the island's wild landscapes and wildlife. This unabridged audiobook, narrated by Tracy Wiles, explores how nature can restore life and hope.

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This audiobook explores the natural history of valuable trees, focusing on the evergreen's integral role in economies, traditions, and the origins of the Christmas tree, while pondering its future. It reveals surprising connections between trees and America's past, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with nature.

Categories: History
Keywords: Nature
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This audiobook by Ernest Thompson Seton, narrated by Laurellee Westaway, offers a stirring account of the lives of eight distinct wild animals, from wolves and crows to rabbits and horses. It features classic tales like "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw" and "Silverspot."

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This unabridged memoir, read by Candace Thaxton, recounts how author Meredith May's eccentric beekeeper grandfather and the secret world of honeybees became her sanctuary, teaching her about life, family, and survival amidst a troubled childhood. It's an unforgettable story of finding refuge and wisdom in nature's unexpected embrace.

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This audiobook explores how walking influenced great thinkers like Thoreau, Gandhi, and Nietzsche, revealing profound insights into human thought and experience. It's a passionate affirmation of the simple life, celebrating the myriad ways we move and what those journeys tell us about ourselves.

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This is the inspiring, unabridged memoir of Stany Nyandwi, a "chimpanzee whisperer" who overcame poverty and civil war to become an international conservation hero. Award-winning narration brings to life his extraordinary journey caring for chimpanzees and advocating for their protection.

Categories: Science
Keywords: Nature
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This unabridged audiobook follows eleven-year-old Rigel Harman, who struggles to adapt to suburban life in Connecticut after her parents divorce, finding solace and hope in a surprising friendship with a wild crow. It's a heartwarming story about finding beauty and connection wherever you are.

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This unabridged audiobook, "The Psychedelic Handbook," serves as a comprehensive guide to psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD, exploring their science, history, potential therapeutic benefits, and safe usage. Authored by clinical research psychiatrist Rick Strassman, it offers insights into various substances and their effects for a broad audience interested in this evolving field.

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This audiobook explores how revolutionary geological discoveries and satellite imagery have transformed our understanding of Earth as a dynamic, interconnected planet. It delves into plate tectonics, seismology, and new scientific advancements that reveal our ever-changing world.

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This audiobook explores the escalating global awareness of climate change, drawing on the latest science to examine current impacts and future catastrophes. It delves into the geopolitics of the crisis and proposes win-win solutions, emphasizing the need for new modes of thinking at all levels to collectively address this challenge.

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This audiobook by Rick Strassman serves as a comprehensive guide to psychedelic substances, covering their science, history, potential benefits, and safe usage. It offers insights into various compounds like psilocybin and LSD, their therapeutic applications, and practical advice for navigating psychedelic experiences.

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This unabridged audiobook, "Very Short Introduction: Invasive Species," by Julie Lockwood and Dustin J. Welbourne, read by Wendy Tremont King, explores the pervasive threat of invasive species worldwide. It defines these species, details their global movement, and examines their significant ecological, social, and economic impacts, while also discussing management strategies.

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This audiobook explains the current, human-caused extinction crisis, highlighting that biodiversity is essential for natural cycles and human survival. It explores the threats to biodiversity and potential solutions.

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This audiobook challenges the notion that poorer countries lack environmental consciousness, revealing a prehistory of the global environmental movement in India. It highlights ten Indian thinkers who wrote presciently about environmental dangers, developing a concept of "livelihood environmentalism" that contrasts with affluent world perspectives.

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This audiobook, read by Tara Couture, explores her journey from a deep fear of death to an understanding of life and death's interconnectedness. It emphasizes embracing the beauty and richness of life by engaging with work, land, relationships, and ordinary moments.

Categories: Misc. Non-fiction
Keywords: GriefLossNature
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This collection features Edward Thomas's profound poetry, exploring nature, morality, and the human condition with quiet beauty and touching melancholy. These unabridged poems, read by Thomas Judd, capture life's beauty and impermanence, reflecting on time, loss, and the fragility of existence.

Categories: Poetry
Keywords: GriefNature
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This audiobook challenges the long-held belief that whale songs are solely for mating, proposing instead that whales may use echolocation to "see" their underwater world with sound. It explores the science behind whale acoustics, their intelligence, and the mysteries of their communication.