Wild Inside

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What if the answers to your child’s anxiety, attention, and emotional struggles have been waiting outside all along?

In Wild Inside: How Nature Protects Your Child’s Mental Health and Restores Yours, occupational therapist and parent mentor Kathleen Lockyer helps families rediscover how nature heals the mind, body, and relationships that matter most.

Her work has drawn praise from Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, who writes, “Kathleen Lockyer is a hero of mine, bringing a gentle, persistent, beautiful voice to the new nature movement. The title of the book is itself eloquent. The child (and adult) in communion with nature is filled with something difficult to explain, but Kathleen guides the reader, as she does so many parents and children, into that outer and inner world. Which is why connecting children to the natural world is a sacred cause.”

Children are born with an ancient wisdom—a sensory intelligence shaped by nature itself. In Wild Inside, Lockyer reveals how this wisdom can be reawakened in every family through the meeting of modern neuroscience, sensory development, and the timeless connections with the natural world.

Drawing from decades of clinical work in nature-based therapy and trauma-informed occupational therapy, Lockyer offers a compassionate framework for understanding stress, healing, and resilience—especially for children affected by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the pressures of modern life.

Blending neuroscience, sensory integration, nature-connection and story, Wild Inside reveals:

• Why nature is the original sensory integration system for the developing brain
  

• How ecoception (Lockyer's original term)—our innate ability to sense and respond to nature’s cues—restores calm and focus.

• The difference between adaptability and resilience, and how to nurture both
  

• How outdoor exploration, play, and relational connection reshape stress patterns and promote emotional regulation
  
  

Both poetic and practical, Wild Inside offers parents and educators a path back to connection, confidence, and nervous system regulation—a reminder that true mental health and healing begin in relationship with the living world and with each other.