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How to cope with climate anxiety | Psyche Guides
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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
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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
Welle • How to cope with eco-anxiety
Keely Adler added
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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
dane cads added
It can be hard to stave off despair these days. We’re inundated with bad news about everything from COVID-19 to the mounting threats against democracy to, of course, climate change. The headlines on that front have been particularly awful.
Maddy Lauria • Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
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