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22/01/2025

Elizabeth Sawin, a friend of EAS and the director of the Multisolving Institute, made this text post on LinkedIn today and it really resonated with me. She's always able to capture the complexity of the moment with a few simple phrases. Highly recommend that you check out her work and her new book!

Check out the micropod episode we produced with Beth in the archives of the Story Library at ecoanxious.ca.

How are you practicing a blend of soft and tough these days?

16/01/2025

How do we find meaning when the climate crisis seems to hang over everything we love, everything we hope for? A couple of my favorite folks from the climate mental health space came together a number of years ago for a conversation about how to take care of ourselves and each other in the midst of eco-anxiety. If you’re not subscribed to Gen Dread, please check it out!

Here are a few of the quotes I keep coming back to from the interview between Dan Rubin and Britt Wray:

“I want to help people get to the Goldilocks zone of anxiety. That means that you’re feeling like oh I’m worried about this, but you can still live your life and be proactive. If there’s too much anxiety, then you can’t do anything, and if there’s too little anxiety, then you’re not actually paying attention. So there’s a Goldilocks zone for different people, and that’s what I’m curious to find.”

"Part of my work with trauma and climate trauma is about how we can relate to uncertainty and how we can begin to participate in an uncertain world. No matter what we do with the climate, it is not going to get 100% better, but still we can make things 5% better. 5% is better than 0%. It is the same with other kinds of trauma. With some people’s personal trauma, they’re never going to get 100% better, but 0 to 5 is huge…This idea that we are all fu**ed can get so conceptual. We need to know that our real lives are meaningful and we don’t need to be perfect, but we can get five percent of goodness somewhere."

"I’m convinced that if people get in touch with their natural aliveness, whatever they do is going to be activism…This is an opportunity for experimentation and spontaneity and aliveness. So I am interested in different ways we can embrace the weirdness."

"I think there is also going to be a lot of healing and wounding at the same time."

31/10/2024

I've been feeling disconnected and distracted by doom scrolling these days. There's a time and place for all emotions, but if you're like me and you're looking to engage with life a little more fully, here are a few places to start.

This way of reconnecting through our eco-emotions shows up in my workshops and makes for some great activities. Send me a message if you're interested in creating space for this type of conversation.

Have courage, friends - we won't get there alone!

29/07/2024

From Tania: 'Wars, genocides, water and food shortages, and conflicts worldwide demonstrate the urgent need for climate justice. Many people realize now the severity of the climate crisis, and we know this because the climate movement is growing.

"The climate movement may be growing, but ensuring its longevity will require us to keep imagining the world we want. Our expanding voice leads to backlash from those who wish to continue the status quo. Climate justice advocates understand we have power and money against us, yet we persevere."

We can be the change when we work together to challenge systems designed to fail us. That is how we build hope. Thank you for publishing my article, "Building a practice of hope in a hopeless world."'

Browse our story library and share your own eco-anxious story with us 🩵

01/02/2024

Watching a genocide unfold (through my phone, from the comfort of my home) is changing me at a fundamental level. It is causing me to divest from the stories I've been told about global justice systems, about diplomacy and imperialism, about where peace actually comes from. It's making me give up ideas about my future, about my leaders, about the source of meaningful change.

I've shared this quote from Daniel Kwan before because it's a good reminder of how deep these stories are buried within us, especially if - like me - you were raised as a settler in a settler-colony. This is a crucial opportunity to expand our stories and reframe the central characters.

My hope is that eco-anxiety becomes a doorway to deeper understanding of our collective values. I hope that making space for grief will help us to brush away the myths that justify violence and destruction. I hope that only love remains.

25/01/2024

Introducing a new entry to our resource library:
, a climate-themed board game for 8-12 year olds created by Lori McDonald! I first met Lori after a climate storytelling workshop this past fall. Since then, I've had a chance to find out more about what motivates her to create experiential learning tools for kids.

Earth Matters is a beautifully-designed game that is meant to spark curiosity, conversation, and action among young people. It brings climate conversations to the surface without being prescriptive. Lori is a champion for the power of play, and I hope you check out the game and think of how it could benefit your own kids, your classroom, your library, your community, or a young person in your life.

04/01/2024

We are capable of so much more than this. It should not be easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine a world without exploitation, oppression, and ecological destruction. My hope is found in our collective imagination - the simple notion of a world aligned with the values so many of us share. Tell your story, speak your truth, inspire others to see a future beyond the death spiral.

22/12/2023

Happy Solstice friends 💙

Every life is valuable, every degree of warming counts, and I truly believe that it’s worthwhile to build up our capacity to care in these times. After all, this may be the only place in the universe where meaning exists 💫

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So grateful to be a part of sharing Beth's great work on eco-emotions among environmental students. Here is an excerpt from her story to go with the video we produced on her research: "While often individualized and pathologized, climate emotions are a common, justified, and appropriate reaction experienced by many folks while contemplating the climate crisis. This is particularly true for those of us dedicating years of our lives to studying, comprehending, and addressing the environmental issues we face today. Why then do emotions, especially “negative” emotions, remain largely overlooked and understudied in post-secondary environmental education where emotionally charged content is inevitable? This experience led me to my master’s research project which is now coming to a close. Using creative photography and individual interviews, I empowered post-secondary students to share their emotional experiences in environmental education and to make recommendations for the emotional aspects of their degrees. What resulted was some beautiful, powerful, and vulnerable work that I am honoured to share with you here." - @beth.grant.14 Read the full story and view images here: https://ecoanxious.ca/stories/learning-with-the-head-and-the-heart/ #ecoanxiety #ecogrief #enviroeducation #ecoeducation #climatechange #climateaction #climatepsychology

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Welcome friend, you’re not alone.

Feeling worry and fear about the climate crisis?

You’re not alone. Instead of getting stuck in a sense of powerlessness, we’re supporting each other to transform our eco-anxieties into meaningful action grounded in courage and compassion.

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Eco-anxiety refers to a sense of worry and dread about the climate crisis, overlapping with other feelings like climate grief, powerlessness, or environmental melancholy. It can make you feel helpless and overwhelmed, but together we can learn to cope with these feelings long-term and use them as starting points for powerful change.