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Reviewed by Robin Goodfellow for Readers' Favorite
The ForestWomen: A Journal, A Journey, written by Sissel Waage and illustrated by Ivan Josipovic, is a journal dedicated to encouraging readers to look at their environment and learn from it. Each page delves into different nature exercises that the reader can utilize to be more grounded in the present. Moreover, the reader can write about these experiences in the journal, thus promoting further reflection.
This journal provides a relaxed approach to your mental health, rather than assaulting you with trauma, tears, and more tears (although I do admire that approach). The illustrations by Ivan Josipovic provide a whimsical atmosphere for the reader to nourish their mental and emotional health. This journal is more appropriate for safely planning and goal setting, rather than working through previous wounds, but it can definitely help declutter your brain. It can help you set priorities that you’ll later benefit from down the road, and identify values that are most important to you.
I like how Waage encourages the reader to learn from a plant’s habitat, rather than any metaphysical properties forests have. I loved the scientific terms that Sissel Waage uses, and the parallels she makes with humans. I especially love the way she uses mycorrhizae which, for those of you who don’t know, are fungi that form symbiotic relationships with plants and break down nutrients for them. She compares this to that of breaking down challenging goals into more manageable ones. True, nature can be cruel, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find any lessons in them.
