How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
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How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
- 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.
from How to cope with eco-anxiety by Welle
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- An array of groups offering support to people struggling with eco-anxiety have popped up around the world in recent years. There are climate cafes, for example, or NGOs such as the Good Grief Network, which has a 10-step program that, according to its website, aims to "metabolize collective grief, eco-anxiety, and other heavy emotions" to help peop... See more
from How to cope with eco-anxiety by Welle
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- Technology is forcing us to question the boundaries of our homes and communities. The climate crisis is forcing us to rethink how we treat our shared planet. When asked what their top concerns were for 2022, half of the young people we surveyed said ‘the climate crisis’ — more than double the number who said ‘mental health’ or ‘my relationships’. S... See more
from Home is where the heart is, according to young people by Eloise Hendy
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- 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
from Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe by Brian Stout
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If you believe that the world is shaped by your and others’ actions, then the climate crisis or other global catastrophic risk don’t look quite so scary: they’re an opportunity to do something meaningful.
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
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- As Bill McKibbenwrote recently, the best thing you can do to prepare yourself for climate change is live in an area with a high degree of social trust.
We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75
... See morefrom The Friendship Problem by Rosie Spinks
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- more than 50% of young people reported feeling sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless and guilty about climate change.
from How to cope with eco-anxiety by Welle
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