Resources for Working with Climate Emotions

Find a Climate Therapist — Become a Climate-Aware Therapist

Climate Therapist Directory — Climate Psychology Alliance North AmericaDirectory of Climate-Informed mental health professionals by geographical location

Climate Psychiatry Alliance

Evolving Edges of the Work That ReconnectsThe Work That Reconnects is, and always has been, an evolving body of work informed by the experiences of the people who practice it and by the needs of the world. Through decades of development by…

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TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform & invest directly into treatment and recovery. View our blog and online resources here. Nonprofit Movement. Community. Self-Love. Events.

Eco-Anxiety Support Group — WaterspiritWaterspirit is sponsoring a 10-week program to create personal resilience in the face of climate change, using the Good Grief Network’s 10-step methodology.

MENTAL HEALTH AND OUR CHANGING CLIMATE:

Our websites offer webinars and other resources to supplement this report. On behalf of the authors, ... environment, ecomigration, and/or ecoanxiety.

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Exacerbate Eco-AnxietyFor those simultaneously worried about COVID-19 and climate change, the intersection of these crises may present unique circumstances for eco-anxiety.

Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education

How to cope with eco-anxietyWe've compiled a few tips and techniques to help you coping with eco-anxiety, the increasing anxiety in the face of ecological crisis.

How to Beat Eco-Anxiety - Compare Ethics

Eco-anxiety (also known as climate change anxiety or ... mental health charity with invaluable resources and support for anyone in need.

Eco-anxiety: active solutionsJulia Welstead considers the connection between our mental health and our planet

Eco-Anxiety - GoodTherapy.org Therapy BlogEco-anxiety refers to anxiety or worry about the ecological threats facing the earth. Eco-anxiety is not considered to be a mental health concern. Rather, it is seen as a typical reaction to the growing awareness of the problems that can result from climate change and other global threats. Understanding Eco-Anxiety Most scientists agree the earth is facing …

THE STRESS OF CLIMATE ANXIETY SPURS ACTION IN US AND CANADA —US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT

Home - Good Grief NetworkOur unique 10-Step Program helps individuals and communities build resilience by creating spaces where people can lean into their painful feelings about the state of the world and reorient their lives toward meaningful action.

Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxietyWith no training, counselors feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people anxious about the climate emergency

How To Cope With Eco-Anxiety - Ethical Unicorn

Support group helps to deal with psychological effects of climate changeMore than 250 people have enrolled in the network since it was established in 2016

How to cope with climate anxiety, with Thomas Doherty, PsyD ...

Home, Climate CafésThe idea is simple Meet with other people and take turns expressing how climate and ecological breakdown makes you feel.

Climate Therapist Directory — Climate Psychology Alliance North AmericaDirectory of Climate-Informed mental health professionals by geographical location

The Work That ReconnectsThe Work That Reconnects, based in the teachings of Joanna Macy, follows a Spiral of practices, described in detail below. The following links will help you learn more about the Work and how it can…

Psychologists for Future

https://www.psychologistsforfuture.org

„Climate change is a psychological crisis, whatever else it is.

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Home, Climate CafésThe idea is simple Meet with other people and take turns expressing how climate and ecological breakdown makes you feel.

Families For A Future Printable Conversation Guide

Hope in Practice: Beyond Climate Anxiety With Thelma Young Lutanatabua of 350.org & Radical Reimagining

The 4 Stages of Climate GriefHow do we deal with the prospect of losing the places we love?

Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study findsLink to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

Climate Change and HappinessAn international podcast that explores the personal side of climate change.

Science Moms: How to Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change

HomePsychology for understanding and facing climate change and difficult truths – responding to ecological crisis and helping each other engage

Climate Psychology Alliance North America

Climate change is a psychological crisis, whatever else it is.

Psychologists for Future – our Mission ... Climate crisis is man-made. It requires changes in our behavior and communal life.

Work That Reconnects Network

Eco-anxiety: Symptoms, Causes, and How to CopeEco-anxiety is just one way that climate change is starting to affect our mental health.

Ep. 59: Eco-Anxiety | Sustainability DefinedFeelings of helplessness toward the ecological crisis, persistent worry about the future of the climate, intense guilt about your own carbon footprint... sound familiar?

Transform Our World: Turning Anxiety into ActionThis campaign helps teachers feel prepared for instances when anxiety arises in the classrooms.

Rising eco-anxiety means we should address mental health

Jan 9, 2020 — Escalating fear and anxiety. The declarations of climate emergency might help to increase the mobilization of financial and human resources for

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Practice Compassion Towards Others & Yourself To Develop A Safe & Supportive Space. You Deserve Just As Much Care & Attention As You Give Others. View Resources. Get Help. Confidential Help. Types: The Latest COVID-19 Info, COVID-19 FAQs.

How to cope with eco anxiety | Friends of the EarthWith multiple councils and governments declaring a climate emergency, the worsening environmental situation can often feel overwhelming. Psychotherapist and lecturer Caroline Hickman discusses the phenomenon of "eco anxiety", and what to do about it.

How to cure the eco-anxiousCould community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?

Dealing With Eco-Anxiety? Here Are 5 Ways to CopeEco-anxiety is real, and you may be expriencing it without even realizing it. Here's everything you should know, including how to cope.

Eco-anxiety: Are natural disasters causing our children to worry? | HCFHere’s how you can help reduce you children’s eco-anxiety and give them the confidence to take steps towards a brighter future.

Storytelling Saves Lives - This Is My Brave - End the StigmaThis is My Brave's mission is to bring stories of mental illness and addiction into the spotlight. Visit our website to learn more!

Conceivable Future

How to plan a Conceivable Future house party in three weeks!

If you are interested in getting more involved with our organization, or are looking for ways to build climate community in your town, consider hosting your own house party! Download the PDF for ideas and resources.

Get Involved Across the country we are organizing house parties for people to meet, talk, testify and take action. These events feature group discussions and tasty snacks, as well as an opportunity to...conceivablefuture.org/houseparty

Conceivable Future

TESTIFY

A Conceivable Future testimony is your video, audio, or written statement from the heart about how the climate crisis is shaping your intimate decisions, particularly your decisions about childbearing and/or parenting. You don’t need to know what you are going to do with your reproductive potential, and you don’t need to have considered climate change before you had your children–there’s no “right” answer. What’s important is that you step forward and tell the world that climate change is shaping your life.

Rising seas, stress levels spawn climate anxiety support groupsOn a rainy night in the basement lounge of a church, five people sat in a circle and nibbled on snacks as they talked about their personal struggles.

Mental Health Treatment for Teen with Anxiety About Climate ChangeThe American Psychiatric Association coined the term “eco-anxiety” to describe this genuine worry about the effect of climate change on our planet.

Ecological grief and anxiety: the start of a healthy response to climate change? The Lancent

Groups and Organizations — Climate & MindList of organizations involved in climate psychology and climate mental health

Home - Climate AwakeningLet’s break the silence. Share your climate terror, grief, and rage with people who understand. Join a Climate Emotions Conversation – a small group sharing & listening session about the climate emergency. > Sign up for a Session < What participants are saying “It feels good to be open and honest with others and share … Home Read More »

Eco-AnxietyChanneling eco-anxiety into meaningful climate action.

Gen Dread | Britt Wray | SubstackA newsletter about staying sane in the climate and wider ecological crisis.

Emotional Resilience Toolkit for Climate Work, developed by the Climate Therapy Alliance (PDF)

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Why read Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change?Discover why Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change by Leslie Davenport is such a great book to read.

What to Do with Climate EmotionsIf the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?

Why Tackling the Climate Crisis Means Transforming our Culture - Harvard Political ReviewPsychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe's new book "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis" gets to the heart of what’s keeping the policies and systems we need to achieve a just and sustainable future from coming into place.

Climate Change Is Hurting Our Mental Health. How ‘Climate Cafes' Can HelpSimilar to grief circles or other types of peer-support groups, these informal gatherings help people work through the emotional distress of living in a climate emergency

A guide for parents about the climate crisis | APS

Australian Psychological Society

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Answers are provided to common questions that parents ask, as well as strategies for assisting parents to cope with the 'uncomfortable truths' of climate change ...

Kids are freaked out about climate doom. Can bedtime stories help?A new crop of books have an empowering message.

Climate ConversationsTackling climate breakdown is too big for an individual, but we can do it together. Join us in building the widespread support needed for climate action.

Rosemary RandallA psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist researching, writing and blogging on climate change

Not Too LateNot Too Late is a project that aims to provide useful perspectives and information to those who care about climate - and move them from despair to possibilities

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal E…Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the sto…

How To Talk To Your Kids About Climate Change Without Giving Them AnxietyExpert-backed tips to help kids of all ages understand global warming.

Climate Grief Was Clouding My Time Outside. So I Turned to Ecotherapy.Therapy on the hiking trail couldn’t fix the new normal of Oregon wildfire season, but could it help me grapple with it?

Climate Psychology Alliance North America | Organization For Climate-Aware TherapistsFounded in 2019, we're a strong community of mental health professionals supporting climate-aware therapists and holding space for those in climate distress.

Climate Conversations Pathways to Action. Climate Conversations: The idea is to have psychoanalytically informed ways of not raising people’s defenses, and allowing for processing of difficult emotions, like shame, or guilt, and anger, and so forth, to then get us to a more constructive place where we can look at our actions and maybe shift them—and do that together in groups.

Tips for talking about climate changeHaving more conversations about climate change is important for promoting social change and developing social norms. Find tips here.

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Climate anxious? Here’s how you can turn apprehension into action — Guardian USWorrying about the future can be debilitating. Experts say these three things can help

HomeMad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

WHAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL CLIMATE EMOTION?

Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study findsLink to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

World's youth are surprisingly optimistic, UN study findsThey refuse to see the future through the bleak lens of adults.

The Utility of White-Hot RageLiving in the era of climate change might make us feel guilt, or grief, or anger. How do those who think about these problems every day keep going?