Julie Brams Receives Gold Winner in the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards for ‘The Nature Embedded Mind’

The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves, by Julie Brams, has been selected as a Gold Winner in the Rising To The Moment category of the 2026 Nautilus Book Awards.

The "Rising to the Moment" category honors insightful, powerful books that provide doorways for individuals to navigate today's challenges and to consciously participate in shaping the future.

The Nautilus Book Awards honors books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth. The awards celebrate Better Books for a Better World.

The Nature Embedded Mind is a groundbreaking new book at the intersection of psychology, ecology, and social justice. Drawing on clinical practice, evidence based methodology, and scientific research, Julie Brams shows how healing our disconnection from our Earth is the next frontier of psychology.

Julie Brams, MA, LMFT, is an Earth-centred psychotherapist, certified Forest Therapy guide, meditation teacher, and writer based in Los Angeles. With more than thirty years of clinical practice, she is the author of The Nature Embedded Mind and co-founder of Elemental, a platform offering nature-informed practices, cohorts, and workplace programming. Her work blends contemplative traditions with ancestral earth practices in a body of writing and practice grounded in lived experience and clinical depth.

The Nature Embedded Mind has received several additional honors, including the New York City Big Book Award (2025) — Winner (Wellbeing) and the Independent Press Award (2026) — Distinguished Favorite (Nonfiction).

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