"More keen-eyed companion than therapist, Susan Scott nudges us to look for lessons in healing that lie beyond the manicured space of therapeutic practice. With her camera and stories, she invites us to see the young maple springing from the burl, a wound, on an ancient tree. Along the way, she invites us to heal that which can be healed, and perhaps more important, to carry forth with exuberant new life that which we must take on."
~James S. Korcuska, Ph.D. NCC, Resource Review Editor for Counseling Today~

"Healing With Nature is an inspirational book that gives depth insight into the heart of healing. Beautifully written, the book shows how the simple act of walking in nature can be a profound healing process available to everyone. Susan Scott shares her own story of healing a painful back injury, along with other people's stories of healing somatic and psychological illnesses. She shows us a way to heal our wounds as we learn to be with the healing gifts of nature."
~Linda Leonard, Ph.D. Call To Create~

Healing With Nature

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"Susan Scott's Healing With Nature is a lyrical, literary journey through nature and through Jungian concepts of healing. A delightful amalgam of science, natural science, and beautiful description, Healing With Nature is about the difficult craft of being human. All those who love nature or are concerned with personal growth will find this irresistible. This is psychology in its finest form--storytelling."
~Susan Zwinger Ph.D. Still Wild Always Wild~

"How to describe this extraordinary book! Susan Scott's stunning photographs, her lovingly attentive verbal descriptions of woods like those I and my dogs walk in each morning has enabled me to notice the amazing stories embedded in the beautiful and miraculous pattern of growth of this cedar or that fir, as it has responded to the particular challenges of its immediate setting and life history. She helps us see how our lives--her own, those of her patients and friends, mine--are informed by the same natural patterns, exhibit the same fierce resilience, the same quiet coming to terms."
~Christine Downing, Ph.D. Goddess~

Essays:  
“Bowing To Grace.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.    January 2016 

“Thriving With Art.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.   January 2012 

“Gnosis, Jung, And The Creative Spirit.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.    2008 

“Healing With Nature.” Experience Life Magazine.  April 2004. 

“Dreams, Poems, And Prayers.” Dream Network Magazine. Vol. 20, #3  UT 2001. 

“Stories Of Healing With Nature.” Quadrant Journal. NYC Summer, 2000. 

“Human Healing Through Nature And Its Metaphors.” Hearts And Wings. Spring. Seattle, WA 1992 

“Dreams And Creativity In Women.” Arts In Psychotherapy Journal. Winter, Vol. 14.  Scarsdale, NY. 1987 


Photo-essays: 
"Celebrating The Art Of Now." Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.  May 2016. 

“Walking In Wonder:  The Footpaths In And Around Langley.” Whidbey Life Magazine. Langley, WA.  February  2016. 

“Learning From Trees.” Dharma News, Vol. 15, Issue 5. WA.  2002 

“Like Trees Walking.” Hedgebrook News. Freeland, WA. Feb. 1998 


Photography: 
Photographs for Susan Zwinger’s essay, “Nature’s Winter Art: Fiber-Ice Glows In The Woods.”   Whidbey Life Magazine.  Langley, WA.  1/6/16 

Photographs for Wayfarer’s Walking Tour, Cotswold’s, England.  Men’s Fitness Magazine. Woodland Hills, CA.  1992; Women’s Sports And Fitness Journal. Feb, CO. 1992; Longview News Journal. Feb. TX. 1992 


Poetry: 
“Gratitude.” Held In Love: Stories To Inspire Us Through Times Of Change.  Psychosynthesis Press.  Mt Shasta, CA.  2009. 

“The Day After The Worst Day Of The Year.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.  2005 

“Letting Go.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.  2005 
        Award poem for Seattle’s Poetry On The Buses Contest. 2003 

“Haiku.” Alliance Forum: Newsletter of the NW Alliance For Psychoanalytic Study, Seattle, WA.  2005 

“Daily Haiku In The Year 2000.”  Psychological Perspectives.  Journal #42.  Summer.  CA. 2001 

“Songs Of Love And Woe.” Reading /book signing of chapbook.  Bayview Gallery, Langley, WA. 2000 


Presentations: 
“Jung As Friend; The Creative Spirit As Genius.” Presentation and Workshop For Idaho Friends Of CG Jung.  Boise, Idaho. 2008 

“Awakening The Creative Instinct.”  Presentation and Workshop For CG Jung Society, Seattle, with Sharon Driscoll, ACSW of Nova Scotia.  2006. 

“Mentoring And The Creative Process.” Presentation for Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association. 
Seattle, WA.  2004. 

“Healing With Nature.”  Presentation/ book signing.  Madison Park.  NYC. 2003;  Book Reading and signing.  East/West Bookstore.  NYC 2003 


Short Fiction 
“Herschel And Pita.” Spindrift.  Seattle, WA.  1990 


Writing Residency: 
Hedgebrook.  Freeland, WA Sept-Oct, 1992 

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