A necessary and beautiful episode on the emotional terrain of climate grief, loss, sadness, anxiety, and all the ways we can cope either maladaptively or adaptively to this challenging moment in time.

This is an intimate conversation that makes the case for allowing ourselves to ‘feel it all’. Because from the depth of feeling comes the power of action, hope, resilience and community. If we ignore the reality of this mental health crisis, we are turning our backs on the potential that can emerge on the other side of initiation. We discuss different frameworks for processing climate anxiety - practical resources, approaches and philosophical underpinnings of a phenomenon that is sweeping the world, especially among youth populations.

Dr Britt Wray is one of the world’s most esteemed and loved researchers on this topic, having published the viral newsletter and book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. She is Director Special Initiative of the Chair on Climate Change & Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine, advancing research and approaches in the field with communities facing the reality of ecological and social breakdown.

Show Links:

Lifeworlds Resources Page
Britt’s website
Britt’s books: Generation Dread & Rise of the Necrofauna
Joanna Macey: World as Lover, World as Self
Edwards & Buzzel: The Waking Up Syndrome
Blanche Verlie: Learning to Live with Climate Change
Good Grief Network
Elizabeth Bechard: Parenting in a Changing Climate
Jo McAndrews: Supporting children in the face of climate change
Martin Shaw: We Are In The Underworld And We Haven’t Figured It Out Yet
Climate Psychiatry Alliance
Roy Scranton: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

Music: Electric Ethnicity

Photo: Midsummer Eve Celebration

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16. Climate Grief, Eco-anxiety, and Loving a World in Turmoil – with Britt Wray