"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."
 Richard Louv
 author of "Last Child in the Woods" and "Our Wild Calling"
A Parenting Book For The Rest of Us
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If you’ve been searching for a parenting book that finally makes sense—this is it. Wild Inside is for the parent who’s tired of rigid strategies, exhausted by behavior charts, and overwhelmed by advice that doesn’t honor the heart and soul of parenting. Wild Inside won’t bury you in jargon or make you feel like you’re failing. Instead, it offers something rare: relief.
Grounded in the latest neuroscience and child development research—yet written with heart, humility, and poetic clarity—Wild Inside helps you understand the most essential aspects of childhood so you can stop second-guessing yourself and start trusting what you already know.
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Build resilience by working with, not against, our evolutionary wiring
Improve physical and mental health outcomes—naturally
Reconnect to the wild intelligence within, and help others do the same.
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What if your most powerful parenting hack…
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was just outside your door?
Inside, you’ll learn how to: Recognize the hidden roots of dysregulation (in you and your child) - Support your child’s sensory and emotional development naturally - Connect with nature for healing and growth - Anchor in relational connection - Raise resilient, regulated, and nature-positive kids — while healing your own story.
After reading Wild Inside, you’ll breathe easier — knowing that parenting doesn’t have to be so complicated, and that the most powerful supports are within you, and all around you.
Step Outside Your Door And Discover Your Neural-Nature Networks For A Better Today, and A Brighter Tomorrow!
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Here’s what lies ahead:Â
- Stronger Bonds: Nature-connected moments weave trust back into your relationship. Instead of constant effort and battles, you’ll find yourself relating with ease, watching your child lean in instead of pulling away.
- Calmer Days, Calmer Nights:  The nervous system is waiting to attune to nature, together. When sensory pathways to nature open, it soothes your child’s stress and reduces yours. Tantrums shift, evenings soften, and bedtime doesn’t feel like a constant battle.
- Confidence You Can Feel: When you understand the sensory and evolutionary roots of behavior, you stop doubting yourself. You’ll know why your spirited child reacts the way they do—and you’ll know how to meet them with clarity, not confusion.Â
- More Ease, Less Overwhelm:Â Say goodbye to searching for answers. Nature simplifies family life, making parenting more intuitive and deeply effective.
- Roots That Last a Lifetime: What begins as simple practices will grow into resilience, belonging, and joy that your child carries long after childhood—and that you carry, too.
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This powerful, book will help you parent with more presence, peace, and possibility at home, and in your life.
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and exhale
With stories that resonate, neuroscience that clarifies, and nature as a compass, Kathleen Lockyer shows how anchoring childhood in the living world protects mental health, fosters sensory integration, improves behavior, and restores the soul of parenting. This is a book about slowing down, listening deeply, and raising kids ready for the world that’s coming — kids who know they belong to the Earth, and to each other.
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This isn’t just about using nature to help.
It’s about becoming the kind of parent—and human—who helps your child remember their wild insides to reach their full potential.
Wild Inside
How Nature Protects Your Child's Mental Health and Restores Yours
A Parenting Book For The Rest of Us.
Wild Inside is an invitation to reimagine what’s possible.Â
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"Like seeds waiting for fire, our capacity for healing often lies dormant until disturbance awakens it. Nature knows how to bring us back."
 Reconnect with a million year old technology and redefine your role as a parent —and as a facilitator of wholeness for your child and yourself.
Our nervous systems were shaped to find safety and belonging through sensory interactions with the natural world—when those experiences return, so does regulation.
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Wild Inside
How Nature Protects Your Child's Mental Health and Restores Yours
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Meet The Author
Kathleen LockyerÂ
Occupational Therapist · Nature Connection Specialist · Mentor · Author · Founder of the NatureLed™ ApproachÂ
I wrote Wild Inside because I’ve lived the question so many parents are asking:
What’s missing from the way we’re trying to raise, regulate, and connect with our kids?
For years I watched parents—myself included—pour themselves into endless strategies and expert advice, only to feel like something essential was still out of reach. At the same time, I began to notice what happened when families stepped outside: children softened, curiosity returned, nervous systems found their rhythm again. Parents, too, felt lighter, calmer, and more like themselves.
That’s what shaped this book: the understanding that disconnection our children are facing today isn’t only from nature. It’s from their bodies, their senses, their communities, and the very pathways that build resilience.
Wild Inside is an invitation to return to the wisdom you already carry—supported by research, shaped by lived experience, and rooted in our deepest neurobiological needs.
My hope is simple: that my 30 years of distilling vital information and real stories will make your parenting path a little bit easier—and help you remember what parenting is truly about—real connection, healing that lives in the body, and a relationship with nature that steadies us all.
This is how we raise stronger kids.
This is how we restore ourselves.
This is how we come home—inside and out.
—Kathleen
Break Free from Burnout and Boxed-In Parenting.
You didn’t become a parent to spend your days managing meltdowns, drowning in advice that doesn’t fit your child, or feeling disconnected from the joy you once imagined.
You’re here to raise a child who feels safe, seen, and loved — and to enjoy doing it!
To create a family life that isn’t ruled by stress.
To experience moments that are meaningful.
Wild Inside helps you reclaim what made parenting a hopeful journey in the first place—
a deep connection with your child, a sense of confidence in yourself, and the possibility of a home filled with ease, unconditional love, deep and fulfilling connections, and joy.
