This week I'm talking with Kate Schapira, author of "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth," which takes readers through the practical skills and emotional shifts needed to navigate our way to a more livable future.

Kate is also the author of six books of poetry, and her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, The Toast, and other places. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University. And fun fact about Kate, she has never met a tide pool that she didn't like.

In this episode we covered:

- How her grief over climate change inspired her to set up a table at a park in downtown Providence with a sign that said "Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth" and start talking to folks

- How that act of inspiration/desperation became a book

- The kinds of things people talked to her about at the booth

- Why she consciously chose NOT to pursue writing as a career path (it's her...side hustle? side passion that sometimes pays a little?)

- How to create a little more space when it feels like the walls of worry about the future are closing in

- The four-word mantra that helps her stay creative

- The genius (and new-to-me) concept of 'productive dissociation'

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