MOTHERSHIP: A MEMOIR OF WONDER AND CRISIS
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10% of Mothership's book profits will go
to The Nature Conservancy
“A powerful testimonial and call to action to save the equal opportunity healer that is Mother Nature.”
—CARINE McCANDLESS, author of The Wild Truth, the New York Times-bestselling follow-up to Into the Wild
—CARINE McCANDLESS, author of The Wild Truth, the New York Times-bestselling follow-up to Into the Wild
A dazzling, evidence-based account of one man’s quest to save his life by turning to ayahuasca and coral reefs after traditional therapies failed—and his awakening to the need for us to heal the planet as well.
“The ecological is personal," Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, "and the personal is ecological.” What he’s never told them is how he’s lived out those correspondences to save his life.
Weaving together memoir and 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Mothership is not only a brave, queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how ayahuasca and endangered coral reefs helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, Greg takes his readers on a journey across the globe, waking up his ecological conscience along the way. He dives into both the ocean and the psyche, and finds they have a lot in common.
This is Greg's audacious search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. But will doses of nature be enough to save us before it’s too late?
Mothership was published by Regalo Press, a new philanthropically minded, standalone imprint distributed by Simon & Schuster, founded by Big Five-publishing veteran Gretchen Young. Regalo will make a donation to the Southern Environmental Law Center on his behalf, and Greg has committed to donating at least 10% of his book profits to The Nature Conservancy.
Weaving together memoir and 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles, Mothership is not only a brave, queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how ayahuasca and endangered coral reefs helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, Greg takes his readers on a journey across the globe, waking up his ecological conscience along the way. He dives into both the ocean and the psyche, and finds they have a lot in common.
This is Greg's audacious search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. But will doses of nature be enough to save us before it’s too late?
Mothership was published by Regalo Press, a new philanthropically minded, standalone imprint distributed by Simon & Schuster, founded by Big Five-publishing veteran Gretchen Young. Regalo will make a donation to the Southern Environmental Law Center on his behalf, and Greg has committed to donating at least 10% of his book profits to The Nature Conservancy.
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Mothership speaks to trauma, body shame, addiction, the climate crisis, nature as a mental health resource, and, most controversially, the therapeutic use of psychedelics. After the 2018 release of Michael Pollan’s New York Times-bestselling How to Change Your Mind, there is an urgent need for trustworthy, science-based follow-up books to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of psychedelic therapy for PTSD—Greg's book is one of the first.
What's more, his eco-memoir is the first literary nonfiction book involving ayahuasca, the psychedelic tea that Greg drank in the Amazon rainforest. The last third of Mothership is devoted to it. The trauma of the pandemic has caused many people to look for mental health treatments that actually work—the laws around psychedelic use are quickly changing, and so are many minds. Given the buzz around MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat PTSD, his memoir is particularly timely.
Mothership is also one of the few extended literary accounts of coral reefs. Greg takes readers underwater to some of the last pristine coral reefs left on earth as pollution and warming ocean temperatures threaten their survival, describing them with unforgettable lyricism and compassion.
Represented by Wendy Levinson at the Harvey Klinger Literary Agency.
What's more, his eco-memoir is the first literary nonfiction book involving ayahuasca, the psychedelic tea that Greg drank in the Amazon rainforest. The last third of Mothership is devoted to it. The trauma of the pandemic has caused many people to look for mental health treatments that actually work—the laws around psychedelic use are quickly changing, and so are many minds. Given the buzz around MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat PTSD, his memoir is particularly timely.
Mothership is also one of the few extended literary accounts of coral reefs. Greg takes readers underwater to some of the last pristine coral reefs left on earth as pollution and warming ocean temperatures threaten their survival, describing them with unforgettable lyricism and compassion.
Represented by Wendy Levinson at the Harvey Klinger Literary Agency.