Surviving Climate Anxiety: Coping, Healing and Thriving on a Changing Planet

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If you ever feel dread as you doomscroll news stories about climate change, or despair when you think about the world we are leaving to future generations, you are not alone. With environmental disasters mounting, predictions for the future of our planet worsening, and solutions feeling like a drop in a polluted ocean, climate anxiety is one of the biggest mental health threats of our time. Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological toll of persistent environmental crisis. In this helpful and ground-breaking book, the world’s leading climate anxiety expert, psychologist Dr Thomas Doherty, shares the pioneering techniques he has developed to help you to:Reclaim your nervous system: manage your thoughts, feelings, and stress about climate changeClarify your environmental identity: establish your history, values, and connection to the natural worldOvercome fear of climate disasters and tend to eco-depression and griefFind realistic reasons for hope and ways to take meaningful actionPacked with practical, research-backed tips and dozens of stories – from the geologist haunted by images of melting glaciers, to the young couple agonizing over whether to bring a child into a world on fire, to a twenty-something wondering how to believe in the future – Surviving Climate Anxiety provides the tools to cope, heal, and flourish, even in these challenging times.