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

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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