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5 Major Health Benefits of Nature-Informed Therapy
Laura reached out a generously offered her thoughts on nature-informed therapies. Thanks Laura, and thanks to all professionals who are trying to help us heal our relationship with nature. Laura Cohen, MA, RCT, CCC is a Registered Counselling Therapist specializing in...
Presentation Slide
Giving a presentation about climate change? Leave your audience with tools for coping with the anxiety and grief that might bubble up.
Use this slide at the end of your presentation to point people to Eco-Anxious Stories.
Project InsideOut
“As individuals, organizations, and changemakers, we have committed ourselves to transformational change. However, our work is often caught in a cycle between hope and despair, action and inaction, connection and disconnection. To break that cycle, we need to find a new way.”
Good Grief Network
Our friends at the Good Grief Network lead a 10-step program focused on personal resilience and empowerment in a chaotic climate:
All We Can Save
Are you hungry for deeper dialogue about the climate crisis and building community around solutions? Check out All We Can Save.
Sharing our Stories
Moving through story Storytelling is my favorite tool for exploring complexity and meaning. I started this platform to ask: How can we support each other to transform our eco-anxieties into meaningful action? How can stories help us connect to each other and to the...
Indigenous Rights
“Our identities as Indigenous peoples are inextricably tied to the lands, waters, and ecosystems we come from. As the climate crisis continues to worsen, our communities are experiencing increasingly dramatic changes that disrupt our life ways and our rights, despite the fact we are least responsible for it,” stated ICA Executive Director Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.
Caring at the End of the World
Meghan and Joni were feeling overwhelmed, afraid, and angry about the state of the world, and they decided to come together to reflect on what they could control: how we take care of ourselves, each other, and the earth – even when it feels like the end of the world.
Still the Mind
Find a comfortable place to sit or lie, close your eyes, and let Mary’s voice help you navigate to a more peaceful place.
Let Me Out
Mindful Musings by Mary Prefontaine Sometimes in the quiet of the morning, I am visited by another me - the one that plays with prose and is quietly attentive to what is patiently waiting to be invited out to be with me. Sometimes it shows up as a rant, or an...
One Small Step
Deepen your delight in this world and its beauty.
Eco-Anxiety Reflection Guide
What frameworks are useful for making sense of eco-anxiety? Stories are all about grounding information in context. We experience eco-anxiety individually and collectively, but everyone comes from a different context. Learning more about the broader context – the bigger story – can help you identify other characters in the story who may be experiencing these feelings in a different way. We may be used to starting the story with “Who am I in this story?” but it’s more important to ask “When am I in this story?”