# Bird Therapy **Author:** Joe Harkness **Date Read:** 2021/11/03 **Rating:** 5/5 **Bookshelves:** ## My Review A very comfortable read about the joys of birding and outdoors as much as it is about connecting with oneself. Weaving through authors experience of OCD and anxiety disorder and his discovery of birds, outdoors and of birding sub-cultures, the author appeals for connecting with oneself though a connectedness with each other and with nature. Perhaps a bit heavy on UK flora and outdoors at times which can deter an international reader. Also someone who’s completely new to birds could find some parts not as enjoyable prose as a birder would…but overall an extremely grounded and flowing prose that I could deeply connect with…