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A few of our favourite passages from our new book, A Brave Life, each one a reminder that we are part of nature and shaped by the same rhythms as everything around us. Natures rhythms live in us too: the need for rest and renewal, the need to gather close and the enduring ability to change and begin again. Our new book, A Brave Life, honours these ancient rhythms. It brings ancient wisdom and modern science together to ask what living well might look like. Part One explores the why, going back to the ancestral blueprint that shaped the human body and mind and looking at the ways we’ve been pulled out of sync with these rhythms. Part Two is the how, with practical ways to work with your circadian rhythm, the lunar cycle, the turning seasons and the rhythms of the female body, alongside the rituals and recipes that make those changes easier to keep. You don’t have to read it all at once either. It’s meant to be dipped into when you need it. A companion you keep close and return to whenever your energy shifts or life asks you for a different pace. With beautiful illustrations by @susannahtaylor_ as seen in this post, photography by @bethsteddon and written by the Ancient + Brave team, we hope that A Brave Life helps you to feel more connected to yourself. A Brave Life publishes on 15 October. You can pre-order now from wherever you like to get your books. Head to the link in our bio to discover more. #ABraveLife #NatureQuotes #moonlovers #autumnalquotes

We’ve been waiting a long time to share a first look inside A Brave Life, so here is Jo reading from chapter one. The opening chapter is about the ancestral blueprint for human wellness and the practices and ways of living that the generations before us carried through their days without ever thinking of them as wellness at all. Our first book brings ancient wisdom together with evolutionary biology, nutritional science, anthropology and psychology to look at the conditions humans evolved to thrive in and how we can begin bringing them back into modern life. You won’t find checklists or rules to follow, just a way back to ourselves through rhythm, nourishment, bravery and nature, in a book made to be dipped in and out of as the seasons change and different chapters start to speak to you. It’s published on 15 October and is available to pre-order now at Amazon. #ABraveLife #AncientAndBrave