How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
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How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in relatio... See more
Brian Stout • Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Eco-anxiety, or climate anxiety, covers a range of responses to climate change, from fear about the future, to shame and guilt over consumption, to anger and grief over what has and will be lost.
Welle • How to cope with eco-anxiety
What can we do to increase our mental resilience so we can better endure the compounding stress and anxiety of relentless, overlapping crises? What can we do to increase our emotional and spiritual resilience so we have the inner resources required to stay engaged with these long-term climate challenges, even when we are exhausted by what we’ve alr
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