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SURVIVING CLIMATE ANXIETY

Thomas Doherty

A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving on a Rapidly Changing Planet

A groundbreaking new resource that provides a full toolbox with clear instructions on how to feel better, understand yourself, and turn your self-knowledge io action that will have a positive impact on the world.

With climate disasters mounting, predictions for the future worsening, and solutions for reversing the damage wrought to our planet feeling ever more elusive, eco-anxiety is rapidly becoming one of the biggest mental health threats of our time. Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological impacts of persistent environmental crisis. In it, the world's leading climate anxiety expert Dr. Thomas Doherty shares the pioneering, evidence-based program he employs in his therapeutic practice to help patients overcome the fear, despair, and grief wrought by eco-anxiety. Readers will learn how to:

Make sense of the enormous, complex problem of climate change without getting mentally overwhelmed
Identify and understand which environmental issues are causing them the most stress
Manage their intake of and reactions to scary climate news
Reclaim their nervous system from constant fight or flight
Mitigate feelings of helplessness through stewardship and action
Notice the progress being made and feel more optimistic about the future
and much more

Packed with original research, practical tips, and dozens of storiesfrom the mother so worried about living in a wildfire prone area that she can't sleep at night, to the geologist haunted by persistent images of melting glaciers and rising sea levels, to the young couple agonizing over whether to bring a child into this deteriorating worldSurviving Climate Anxiety provides the tools you need to manage your emotions, develop coping habits, and find realistic reasons for hope. Despite the dire circumstances, Doherty says, we can all find ways to surviveand even flourishin these times.

Dr. Thomas Doherty is a globally recognized clinical and environmental psychologist. He is a regular guest speaker at conferences and panels worldwide, and has conducted workshops and trainings for organizations as diverse as the US National Park Service, the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the California Department of Health, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and REI. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Doherty is also the creator of the podcast Climate Change and Happiness, which he cohosts with his Finnish colleague, climate emotions researcher Panu Pihkala. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Comments

If you are awake to Earth's dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless. In the face of all hard news and dark prophecy, is it possible to keep your head up, your heart steady, and even to thrive? This book says yes, and tells you how.

In SURVIVING CLIMATE ANXIETY, Doherty offers a clearly-crafted, no-nonsense prescription for climate distress. Using research in climate psychology, case examples, helpful diagrams, and mindfulness exercises, he illuminates a hopeful path forward through our Climate Emergency. Parents will gain an undeniable anchor by reading this book one that will ground them in identity, values, action, and attunement with the natural world, and better equip them to raise the next generation.

Dr. Thomas Doherty is no stranger to suffering, but he continues to believe in the possibility to flourish, even in dark times.

This is the book on climate psychology we've all been waiting for! Beautifully written, smart, super-readable, full of clear ideas, enjoyable exercises and practical advice. I especially love the relatable stories of people dealing with just the kinds of emotions and issues so many of us are now confronted with as global and local environmental conditions grow ever more challenging.

An accessible and hopeful guide to one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Doherty blends lyrical prose, relatable stories, and practical tools to make the climate crisis feel both intimate and navigable. Each chapter adds another layer to a trail map for guiding readers with clarity and compassion through the complexity of the climate crisisequipping us not only to cope, but to heal and thrive.

A powerful book on the need to embrace brightness in a world that can seem uncertain but filled with solutions around our community.

The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that feels genuine and earned.

From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth. The book is timely, engaging, accessible, and very relatable.

Doherty is a calm and wise companion through the labyrinth of feeling that more us are confronting as the planet changes.. likely to become a mainstay for people encountering climate anxiety.

Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis..gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey. My copy is going to be dog eared!

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An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up for loved ones and loved places amidst climate catastrophe. I will revisit this book over and over again, not just as a buoy, but as a battle call.