Episode 38: Yvonne Cuaresma – The Climate Journal Project

Yvonne Cuaresma is the founder of The Climate Journal Project, a movement where people are using journaling as a tool to process climate anxiety and ecological grief. Yvonne has created a community where people can process emotions in a supportive space and move from feelings of hopelessness into action.

Listen to hear more about:

• The Climate Journal Project, what it is and how it started.
• Coping with climate anxiety and environmental grief through journaling.
• The Climate Journal Project books and the prompts that they contain.
• The power of journaling together in a group and the benefits that can bring.
• What Yvonne sees in nature around her in California.
• How working together as a connected community can further environmental work.
• The role of intentional gratitude in this work.
• The power of technology to connect people and create a movement for change.

Learn more about The Climate Journal Project at www.theclimatejournalproject.com and on Instagram @climatejournalproject and Facebook.

Here are a few extra links relevant to climate change and nature journaling ecological grief:

Robin Carlson’s podcast episode Fire Ecology and the Changing Landscape.

Patricia Larenas’ podcast Talking With Trees. 

Coco Brdar’s blog post Nature Journaling When Nature is Wounded. 

If you would like to listen to an accessible, informative and overall very positive podcast about climate change, I can highly recommend How To Save a Planet with hosts Alex Blumberg and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.

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