Laura Koniver, MD , received her medical doctorate degree from Jefferson Medical College in 2000 at the age of twenty-six, and has been passionately supporting her patients' natural healing ever since. She is an artist, author, holistic physician, and internationally recognized grounding advocate. Koniver's healing artwork has been featured in many news and media outlets, and she's published her own children's book on grounding, From the Ground Up . She writes a regular health column in the national organic lifestyle magazine, MaryJanesFarm ; is featured as an expert protagonist in several motion pictures, including The Grounded , Heal for Free , The Earthing Movie , and Down to Earth ; and runs the popular health care blog, www.intuition-physician.com, where she reviews medical literature in a holistic and intuitive way. Foreword writer Echan Deravy is a writer, cotranslator of Earthing , documentary filmmaker, and an edutainer specializing in new paradigm research. He is founder of the grounding movement in Japan, and is currently launching a Barefoot Park program to provide public greenspaces for safe grounding practices.

Afterword writer Stephen Kroschel is a naturalist and independent filmmaker whose groundbreaking animal work has been featured by Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Universal Studios, the BBC, National Geographic, and more. He produced the grounding documentaries, The Grounded and Heal For Free , as well as contributed to more than 200 documentaries about nature and natural healing. He owns and operates the Kroschel Wildlife Park, where he cares for orphaned wildlife indigenous to Alaska and Northern Canada.