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For the last 8 years, I’ve been researching and writing about what it means to stay present and build courage in the face of so much human-caused ecological and social upheaval. Unthinkable isn’t just the name of this newsletter and my nonprofit — it’s one of the few descriptors that can get close to encapsulating what it feels like to try and grasp the complexity, foolishness, and danger of what’s happening to our planetary life support systems.

After months of building, I’m thrilled to share something new: The Unthinkable Resource Hub (link in bio!)! It’s a curated, evolving library of tools, guides, peer support groups, contemplative practices, and directories of climate-aware mental health providers, all designed to support you from wherever you stand.

This free platform was built to help you find support if a traumatic climate disaster has occurred, understand and work with your climate emotions, take wise action, find connection, and know where to turn for support when things feel disorienting. Inside, you’ll find tailored resources for disaster survivors and first responders, climate and environmental professionals, youth, parents (and those navigating whether to become parents), educators, mental health providers, and many other groups who are living and working through the realities of this turbulent moment.

Here’s how it works:

Take a 1-2 minute quiz
Get a personalized care package of trusted, evidence-informed resources tailored to your experience and intentions

Whether you’re grieving, furious, burned out, anxious, freshly hurt by a climate disaster, or simply eager to support someone else, this hub was made for you. I hope it helps you protect your mental health and get smart about disaster preparedness, understand and work with your climate emotions, find grounding, and connect to support.

Most importantly, you can submit relevant resources to the hub that aren’t yet included. Our team will vet them and if they pass a quality test, they’ll help us help more people by growing the hub over time. (link in bio!)

For the last 8 years, I’ve been researching and writing about what it means to stay present and build courage in the face of so much human-caused ecological and social upheaval. Unthinkable isn’t just the name of this newsletter and my nonprofit — it’s one of the few descriptors that can get close to encapsulating what it feels like to try and grasp the complexity, foolishness, and danger of what’s happening to our planetary life support systems.

After months of building, I’m thrilled to share something new: The Unthinkable Resource Hub (link in bio!)! It’s a curated, evolving library of tools, guides, peer support groups, contemplative practices, and directories of climate-aware mental health providers, all designed to support you from wherever you stand.

This free platform was built to help you find support if a traumatic climate disaster has occurred, understand and work with your climate emotions, take wise action, find connection, and know where to turn for support when things feel disorienting. Inside, you’ll find tailored resources for disaster survivors and first responders, climate and environmental professionals, youth, parents (and those navigating whether to become parents), educators, mental health providers, and many other groups who are living and working through the realities of this turbulent moment.

Here’s how it works:

Take a 1-2 minute quiz
Get a personalized care package of trusted, evidence-informed resources tailored to your experience and intentions

Whether you’re grieving, furious, burned out, anxious, freshly hurt by a climate disaster, or simply eager to support someone else, this hub was made for you. I hope it helps you protect your mental health and get smart about disaster preparedness, understand and work with your climate emotions, find grounding, and connect to support.

Most importantly, you can submit relevant resources to the hub that aren’t yet included. Our team will vet them and if they pass a quality test, they’ll help us help more people by growing the hub over time. (link in bio!)

Climate disasters are no longer rare. They are relentless and intensifying. Every week we see wildfires consuming whole regions and neighborhoods, floods like the recent nightmare scenario in Kerr County Texas, and heatwaves straining power grids and hospitals. Now, they’re starting to compound. Sometimes, unlucky communities haven’t even had a chance to recover from the last disaster before they’re hit with another. What happens when the news cycle moves on but the trauma lingers?

My brilliant friend and colleague Dr. Adrienne Heinz, a clinical psychologist who is part of our research team at CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, lived through this firsthand. What started as her daughter’s first birthday party ended in a devastating wildfire evacuation, and subsequently, a radical transformation of both her personal life and her professional purpose.

In this moving essay, Adrienne shares her story of fear, trauma, the community resilience that came next, and the care we owe each other. Healing from climate trauma is a long game. Adrienne wisely shows us why mental health support needs to be embedded into every layer of disaster response and she’s helping show the world how with her trailblazing work, emboldened by lived experience and “tragic optimism”.

Please read and share widely (link in bio)!

Climate disasters are no longer rare. They are relentless and intensifying. Every week we see wildfires consuming whole regions and neighborhoods, floods like the recent nightmare scenario in Kerr County Texas, and heatwaves straining power grids and hospitals. Now, they’re starting to compound. Sometimes, unlucky communities haven’t even had a chance to recover from the last disaster before they’re hit with another. What happens when the news cycle moves on but the trauma lingers?

My brilliant friend and colleague Dr. Adrienne Heinz, a clinical psychologist who is part of our research team at CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, lived through this firsthand. What started as her daughter’s first birthday party ended in a devastating wildfire evacuation, and subsequently, a radical transformation of both her personal life and her professional purpose.

In this moving essay, Adrienne shares her story of fear, trauma, the community resilience that came next, and the care we owe each other. Healing from climate trauma is a long game. Adrienne wisely shows us why mental health support needs to be embedded into every layer of disaster response and she’s helping show the world how with her trailblazing work, emboldened by lived experience and “tragic optimism”.

Please read and share widely (link in bio)!

I find myself receiving the same questions over and over again, just formatted in different words, from the many people who write in to our Dear Climate Therapist column looking for advice. It’s a clear signal that so many people are quietly battling the same struggles, especially around how to keep showing up when day to day existence is like swimming through a full frontal moral injury attack from the powers that be, alongside concerns about how to navigate relationships with people who minimize or deny the planetary health crisis we are in.

These aren’t abstract questions. They’re here and now heart-questions. And the way we respond to them has real consequences for our relationships, our resilience, and our capacity to keep caring and making change through this moment and beyond.

Our latest column deals with these questions. But first, I’m excited to announce that we’ve just started a new collaboration with Atmos, a brilliant climate + culture platform, to bring you the Dear Climate Therapist column. This week, Caroline Hickman guides us through two readers’ questions that our growing pool of letters from readers demonstrate are critical concerns for many.

I invite you to sit with her words and wisdom (link in bio)

I find myself receiving the same questions over and over again, just formatted in different words, from the many people who write in to our Dear Climate Therapist column looking for advice. It’s a clear signal that so many people are quietly battling the same struggles, especially around how to keep showing up when day to day existence is like swimming through a full frontal moral injury attack from the powers that be, alongside concerns about how to navigate relationships with people who minimize or deny the planetary health crisis we are in.

These aren’t abstract questions. They’re here and now heart-questions. And the way we respond to them has real consequences for our relationships, our resilience, and our capacity to keep caring and making change through this moment and beyond.

Our latest column deals with these questions. But first, I’m excited to announce that we’ve just started a new collaboration with Atmos, a brilliant climate + culture platform, to bring you the Dear Climate Therapist column. This week, Caroline Hickman guides us through two readers’ questions that our growing pool of letters from readers demonstrate are critical concerns for many.

I invite you to sit with her words and wisdom (link in bio)

What does skillful climate work look like when so much seems to be hurtling backwards? And what if the crisis in the U.S. represents an opportunity to reboot the climate movement to embrace a more attuned, empathic and effective strategy for change?

This week’s conversation is led by guest interviewer Matthew Green, an editor at DeSmog and creator of Resonant World, a newsletter at the intersection of climate, trauma, and collective healing. In his exchange with environmental psychologist Renee Lertzman, PhD, the two explore how we might develop our capacity for emotional attunement despite the intensifying uncertainty in the U.S. and why that crucial skill could be key to reshaping the climate movement itself.

Building on years of research, her 2019 TED talk, and her experience developing messaging campaigns with Republican operatives, Renée argues that a combination of deep listening, attunement and curiosity can perform a kind of “alchemy,” where seemingly fixed ideological positions soften and shift, opening new opportunities to build bridges.

Even as the U.S. seems toxically divided, Renée sees the current chaos as an invitation to the climate movement to grow beyond a decades-old “yell, tell and sell” approach to activism, and embrace a more holistic, empathic and psychologically informed strategy.

Read on for this cutting-edge conversation at the link in bio!

What does skillful climate work look like when so much seems to be hurtling backwards? And what if the crisis in the U.S. represents an opportunity to reboot the climate movement to embrace a more attuned, empathic and effective strategy for change?

This week’s conversation is led by guest interviewer Matthew Green, an editor at DeSmog and creator of Resonant World, a newsletter at the intersection of climate, trauma, and collective healing. In his exchange with environmental psychologist Renee Lertzman, PhD, the two explore how we might develop our capacity for emotional attunement despite the intensifying uncertainty in the U.S. and why that crucial skill could be key to reshaping the climate movement itself.

Building on years of research, her 2019 TED talk, and her experience developing messaging campaigns with Republican operatives, Renée argues that a combination of deep listening, attunement and curiosity can perform a kind of “alchemy,” where seemingly fixed ideological positions soften and shift, opening new opportunities to build bridges.

Even as the U.S. seems toxically divided, Renée sees the current chaos as an invitation to the climate movement to grow beyond a decades-old “yell, tell and sell” approach to activism, and embrace a more holistic, empathic and psychologically informed strategy.

Read on for this cutting-edge conversation at the link in bio!

This week’s newsletter dives into a tough topic: the ache and ambiguity of eco-reproductive concerns, and how it’s shaping friendships, futures, and the stories we tell. For many, the gnawing uncertainty and complexity around parenthood is thick, especially for those of us raising children or wrestling with the decision of whether - and how - to have them at all. This week’s newsletter explores that terrain—not with answers, but with art. At its center is Baby/Stuff, a new play that cracks open the emotional and political complexities of parenting-related anxiety and climate-era friendships.

Whether you’re wrestling with this question yourself or simply trying to understand it more deeply, I invite you to read on (link in bio).

This week’s newsletter dives into a tough topic: the ache and ambiguity of eco-reproductive concerns, and how it’s shaping friendships, futures, and the stories we tell. For many, the gnawing uncertainty and complexity around parenthood is thick, especially for those of us raising children or wrestling with the decision of whether - and how - to have them at all. This week’s newsletter explores that terrain—not with answers, but with art. At its center is Baby/Stuff, a new play that cracks open the emotional and political complexities of parenting-related anxiety and climate-era friendships.

Whether you’re wrestling with this question yourself or simply trying to understand it more deeply, I invite you to read on (link in bio).

This week I’m sharing a searing guest essay by longtime oceans campaigner Nicolas Entrup, which is pinned to the upcoming UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) happening this month. With over three decades in the trenches of marine conservation, Nicolas brings a gritty and experienced perspective on the frustrating reality that the very institutions meant to protect life under water are being hijacked by petro-power.

Nick is helping to lead a global call to action: the #BecauseOurPlanetIsBlue campaign, which is gathering signatures from citizens around the world to demand a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration.

Please read the piece, add your name, and share it widely. Link in bio!

This week I’m sharing a searing guest essay by longtime oceans campaigner Nicolas Entrup, which is pinned to the upcoming UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) happening this month. With over three decades in the trenches of marine conservation, Nicolas brings a gritty and experienced perspective on the frustrating reality that the very institutions meant to protect life under water are being hijacked by petro-power.

Nick is helping to lead a global call to action: the #BecauseOurPlanetIsBlue campaign, which is gathering signatures from citizens around the world to demand a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration.

Please read the piece, add your name, and share it widely. Link in bio!

For many of us, it feels like we’re no longer just fighting climate change. We’re fighting climate erasure. Protections are being stripped. Science is under siege. The world we were building - all of the decades worth of research and momentum - is being stalled if not outright decimated. But what if the wisest thing we can do now is refuse to be flattened by these forces by finding new ways to roll with the undulating up and down nature of this ongoing - and long term - struggle?

In this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column, Leslie Davenport responds to a young public health student in Canada who’s wondering how to stay in the work without falling apart. Her question is so real and prescient: how do you balance acceptance with passion when everything feels so high-stakes?

Leslie’s response is a balm. She reminds us that burnout doesn’t come from caring too much, it comes from caring without support, without nourishment, without space to breathe. It means learning to move in seasons, remembering that passion without pacing and responding to what’s present is a fast track to collapse.

If you’re someone who can’t imagine doing anything else with your life, but are bone-tired and unsure how to keep going, this one’s for you. Link in bio!

For many of us, it feels like we’re no longer just fighting climate change. We’re fighting climate erasure. Protections are being stripped. Science is under siege. The world we were building - all of the decades worth of research and momentum - is being stalled if not outright decimated. But what if the wisest thing we can do now is refuse to be flattened by these forces by finding new ways to roll with the undulating up and down nature of this ongoing - and long term - struggle?

In this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column, Leslie Davenport responds to a young public health student in Canada who’s wondering how to stay in the work without falling apart. Her question is so real and prescient: how do you balance acceptance with passion when everything feels so high-stakes?

Leslie’s response is a balm. She reminds us that burnout doesn’t come from caring too much, it comes from caring without support, without nourishment, without space to breathe. It means learning to move in seasons, remembering that passion without pacing and responding to what’s present is a fast track to collapse.

If you’re someone who can’t imagine doing anything else with your life, but are bone-tired and unsure how to keep going, this one’s for you. Link in bio!

If what you’re feeling around the blatant blockages to climate action isn’t grief or fear but perhaps white-hot rage, this is for you.

This week our resident climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responds to a reader who’s frankly, pissed. She writes about rage not as something to suppress or “manage” but as a vital emotional force that is important to have planted in one’s own garden of emotions. Like biodiversity in nature, we need a full spectrum of emotional responses to survive and thrive amid the constant assaults to life on this planet. Caroline wisely demonstrates how to stop judging one’s own emotions and to start listening to them instead, transforming anger into expression, and strengthening connection to what one loves without pretending everything is fine. It’s an invitation to feel fully human at an inhumane time. Link in bio!

If what you’re feeling around the blatant blockages to climate action isn’t grief or fear but perhaps white-hot rage, this is for you.

This week our resident climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responds to a reader who’s frankly, pissed. She writes about rage not as something to suppress or “manage” but as a vital emotional force that is important to have planted in one’s own garden of emotions. Like biodiversity in nature, we need a full spectrum of emotional responses to survive and thrive amid the constant assaults to life on this planet. Caroline wisely demonstrates how to stop judging one’s own emotions and to start listening to them instead, transforming anger into expression, and strengthening connection to what one loves without pretending everything is fine. It’s an invitation to feel fully human at an inhumane time. Link in bio!

To keep the celebrations for Earth Day going, I thought I’d share an enlivening conversation I had with Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, author of a book by the same name, and bonafide online sustainability and climate justice powerhouse (@greengirlleah). I got to meet Leah for an event we did together a couple months ago at The Great Northern Festival, a winter wonderland in Minnesota that uses art, dialogue, and outdoor experiences to deepen the culture of climate care.

Read on for our chat about how climate distress intersects with systemic injustices, channeling rage, and how to cultivate a form of hope that isn’t naive, but active, strategic, and real. We also get personal, sharing what keeps us going, what helps us navigate the heaviness, and how time spent in nature is a total lifeline in this work.

I hope this convo brings you into the room with us. Link in bio!

To keep the celebrations for Earth Day going, I thought I’d share an enlivening conversation I had with Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, author of a book by the same name, and bonafide online sustainability and climate justice powerhouse (@greengirlleah). I got to meet Leah for an event we did together a couple months ago at The Great Northern Festival, a winter wonderland in Minnesota that uses art, dialogue, and outdoor experiences to deepen the culture of climate care.

Read on for our chat about how climate distress intersects with systemic injustices, channeling rage, and how to cultivate a form of hope that isn’t naive, but active, strategic, and real. We also get personal, sharing what keeps us going, what helps us navigate the heaviness, and how time spent in nature is a total lifeline in this work.

I hope this convo brings you into the room with us. Link in bio!

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist column covers an urgent and timely topic. A parent writes in alarmed by the rise in online radicalization of young men, and wonders how polyscrisis distress might be intersecting with their son’s growing vulnerability to misogynistic and authoritarian ideologies.

It’s a powerful, necessary question: what happens to a generation of boys and young men when they don’t see a future they want to live in? And how do we as parents, caregivers, educators, clinicians, neighbors respond before the algorithms get to them first?

Our resident climate-aware therapist Kyle Hill reflects on the psychological concept of the extinction burst—the backlash that erupts when a harmful system is finally being challenged. He offers thoughts on our collective responsibility to guide young people toward solidarity, connection, and care, instead of letting despair be weaponized.

This is an important one. Read it an the link in bio!

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist column covers an urgent and timely topic. A parent writes in alarmed by the rise in online radicalization of young men, and wonders how polyscrisis distress might be intersecting with their son’s growing vulnerability to misogynistic and authoritarian ideologies.

It’s a powerful, necessary question: what happens to a generation of boys and young men when they don’t see a future they want to live in? And how do we as parents, caregivers, educators, clinicians, neighbors respond before the algorithms get to them first?

Our resident climate-aware therapist Kyle Hill reflects on the psychological concept of the extinction burst—the backlash that erupts when a harmful system is finally being challenged. He offers thoughts on our collective responsibility to guide young people toward solidarity, connection, and care, instead of letting despair be weaponized.

This is an important one. Read it an the link in bio!

How do you approach and tend to your love for someone whose beliefs are actively harming the future you’re fighting for?

Oof. Such a timely dilemma in this polarized mess of a society.

That’s the heart of this week’s Dear Climate Therapist letter wherein a reader is gutted by the fact that their conservative family brushes off the climate crisis as “exaggerated”. They’re torn between staying connected and cutting ties. And they’re asking: how do I live with this? Our resident climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport’s response is beautifully grounding. She doesn’t sugarcoat the pain, but offers real strategies for navigating these emotional landmines.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of climate division in your family or relationships, I hope you’ll feel seen. Link in bio!

How do you approach and tend to your love for someone whose beliefs are actively harming the future you’re fighting for?

Oof. Such a timely dilemma in this polarized mess of a society.

That’s the heart of this week’s Dear Climate Therapist letter wherein a reader is gutted by the fact that their conservative family brushes off the climate crisis as “exaggerated”. They’re torn between staying connected and cutting ties. And they’re asking: how do I live with this? Our resident climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport’s response is beautifully grounding. She doesn’t sugarcoat the pain, but offers real strategies for navigating these emotional landmines.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of climate division in your family or relationships, I hope you’ll feel seen. Link in bio!

I taught a course called Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences at Stanford University a couple of years ago. Throughout the course, a number of exciting speakers from outside the university joined our classes to support our students (who mainly studied climate science and/or environmental policy at the graduate level) in developing robust personal resilience skills to not only take care of their mental wellbeing while devoting their careers to climate, but increase their motivation to the work. When I think back to which guest speaker most effectively electrified our students and left a transformative mark on them, it was Kritee Kanko, a Zen Buddhist Priest and climate scientist, whose voice emanates passion, courage, and depth. Kritee is the subject of today’s newsletter, albeit speaking to us at a different time, her words reverberate with profundity now just as they did then. The message she’s sending now is that “The biggest poison we are dealing with at the root of all this is spiritual loneliness.”
Head to the link in bio to read a conversation between our frequent collaborator, journalist Matthew Green, and Kritee Kanko, to unearth her suggestions on how to treat the spiritual loneliness at the core of our discontents, that are causing so much planetary pain.

I taught a course called Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences at Stanford University a couple of years ago. Throughout the course, a number of exciting speakers from outside the university joined our classes to support our students (who mainly studied climate science and/or environmental policy at the graduate level) in developing robust personal resilience skills to not only take care of their mental wellbeing while devoting their careers to climate, but increase their motivation to the work. When I think back to which guest speaker most effectively electrified our students and left a transformative mark on them, it was Kritee Kanko, a Zen Buddhist Priest and climate scientist, whose voice emanates passion, courage, and depth. Kritee is the subject of today’s newsletter, albeit speaking to us at a different time, her words reverberate with profundity now just as they did then. The message she’s sending now is that “The biggest poison we are dealing with at the root of all this is spiritual loneliness.”
Head to the link in bio to read a conversation between our frequent collaborator, journalist Matthew Green, and Kritee Kanko, to unearth her suggestions on how to treat the spiritual loneliness at the core of our discontents, that are causing so much planetary pain.

There’s a breaking apart happening—not just in political fractures, but in something harder to name: the slow erosion of trust, the disorientation of not knowing which way is up, what’s real, or where we go from here.

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist takes on questions that so many of us are asking right now: Is my climate distress too much? Or is it the world that’s gone off axis, leaving us stranded without a map? Caroline Hickman, this week’s therapist, reminds us: Feeling deeply isn’t maladaptive. It’s a sign of being awake. It’s about seeing clearly and refusing to let panic distort what’s true so we can find ways to stay steady in the shifting.

Read this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column at the link in bio and, as always, let us know what’s moving through you.

There’s a breaking apart happening—not just in political fractures, but in something harder to name: the slow erosion of trust, the disorientation of not knowing which way is up, what’s real, or where we go from here.

This week’s Dear Climate Therapist takes on questions that so many of us are asking right now: Is my climate distress too much? Or is it the world that’s gone off axis, leaving us stranded without a map? Caroline Hickman, this week’s therapist, reminds us: Feeling deeply isn’t maladaptive. It’s a sign of being awake. It’s about seeing clearly and refusing to let panic distort what’s true so we can find ways to stay steady in the shifting.

Read this week’s Dear Climate Therapist column at the link in bio and, as always, let us know what’s moving through you.

Fascists and oppressors thrive on chaos, flooding our attention with crisis after crisis, hoping to distract us, as they destabilize the structures we once thought were solid. Their goal is mass disorientation, where all that's left for the average individual is the ability to dissociate from reality in order to stay sane, which prevents the people from organizing. Well, we're not falling for this tactic that is designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and erode our ability to resist. This week, I’m excited to share a powerful guest essay from the inimitable Andrew Boyd, aka @the.tragic.optimist, on the art of discerning attention which he calls "selective denial". It's a treatise on how to stay engaged and focused on what you care about changing most, without being totally consumed by the pervasive muck that clogs our ability to feel well. Read on at the link in bio for his insights and darkly funny wisdom.

Fascists and oppressors thrive on chaos, flooding our attention with crisis after crisis, hoping to distract us, as they destabilize the structures we once thought were solid. Their goal is mass disorientation, where all that's left for the average individual is the ability to dissociate from reality in order to stay sane, which prevents the people from organizing. Well, we're not falling for this tactic that is designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and erode our ability to resist. This week, I’m excited to share a powerful guest essay from the inimitable Andrew Boyd, aka @the.tragic.optimist, on the art of discerning attention which he calls "selective denial". It's a treatise on how to stay engaged and focused on what you care about changing most, without being totally consumed by the pervasive muck that clogs our ability to feel well. Read on at the link in bio for his insights and darkly funny wisdom.

The alarms are sounding off at fever pitch. In the U.S., the forces of organized destruction are more emboldened than ever, gutting several institutions that are meant to protect public goods, and compounding obstacles to climate progress in their wake. If you’re feeling the need to step up, to do more, to fight harder—you're not alone. But what happens when that urge creates friction in your personal life?

In this week’s newsletter, our climate-aware therapist Kyle Hill tackles a reader’s dilemma: the tension between their escalating commitment to direct action—even at risk of arrest—and a partner who fears what that means for their future together. The push and pull of love and purpose, security and solidarity. How do we reconcile these competing forces? Read on for Kyle’s answer at the link in bio.

The alarms are sounding off at fever pitch. In the U.S., the forces of organized destruction are more emboldened than ever, gutting several institutions that are meant to protect public goods, and compounding obstacles to climate progress in their wake. If you’re feeling the need to step up, to do more, to fight harder—you're not alone. But what happens when that urge creates friction in your personal life?

In this week’s newsletter, our climate-aware therapist Kyle Hill tackles a reader’s dilemma: the tension between their escalating commitment to direct action—even at risk of arrest—and a partner who fears what that means for their future together. The push and pull of love and purpose, security and solidarity. How do we reconcile these competing forces? Read on for Kyle’s answer at the link in bio.

The wildfires across Southern California have brought overwhelming devastation, with thousands of structures incinerated, at least 24 dead, and a paradise lost. Every hour brings news of more wreckage, and I’m heartbroken for everyone affected. Watching from afar, the fires feel like the plot of a dystopian novel—grief, shock, and numbness abound, and the systemic dysfunction on climate is almost too surreal to believe. Yet here we are. We’ve collected a list of mental health and wellbeing resources for those affected by the wildfires, which you’ll find in our newsletter (link in bio).

Today, we’re announcing our new chapter - and name - for this platform. Reason being, we’ve had the very best thinking devoted to solving the climate crisis for decades, and yet, emissions are still going up, disasters are compounding, and more people are becoming climate refugees. I believe that the climate movement needs more approaches that go beyond narrow technocratic and scientific thinking, that venture into the felt, behavioral, psychological, somatic, imaginative, and generative possibilities of moving –and healing– hearts and minds. As a nod to this idea, this newsletter is getting a new name that will be used from today onwards, and that name is: Unthinkable.

Read about the change at the link in bio and get a plethora of resources to cope in the aftermath of this destruction.

The wildfires across Southern California have brought overwhelming devastation, with thousands of structures incinerated, at least 24 dead, and a paradise lost. Every hour brings news of more wreckage, and I’m heartbroken for everyone affected. Watching from afar, the fires feel like the plot of a dystopian novel—grief, shock, and numbness abound, and the systemic dysfunction on climate is almost too surreal to believe. Yet here we are. We’ve collected a list of mental health and wellbeing resources for those affected by the wildfires, which you’ll find in our newsletter (link in bio).

Today, we’re announcing our new chapter - and name - for this platform. Reason being, we’ve had the very best thinking devoted to solving the climate crisis for decades, and yet, emissions are still going up, disasters are compounding, and more people are becoming climate refugees. I believe that the climate movement needs more approaches that go beyond narrow technocratic and scientific thinking, that venture into the felt, behavioral, psychological, somatic, imaginative, and generative possibilities of moving –and healing– hearts and minds. As a nod to this idea, this newsletter is getting a new name that will be used from today onwards, and that name is: Unthinkable.

Read about the change at the link in bio and get a plethora of resources to cope in the aftermath of this destruction.

This week, a grandmother’s letter cuts straight to the heart of a deep and often unspoken struggle—how to face the climate crisis with young people in an honest way that takes accountability and shows compassion for the difficult position this puts the next generation in, without being drowned by guilt or despair?

Her words reflect a tension many older generations are grappling with. As Leslie Davenport, our resident climate-aware therapist, reminds us: this mix of guilt and grief can be reframed as a starting point for connection and meaningful action — the most powerful acts of love we can offer. Head to the link in bio to read more!

This week, a grandmother’s letter cuts straight to the heart of a deep and often unspoken struggle—how to face the climate crisis with young people in an honest way that takes accountability and shows compassion for the difficult position this puts the next generation in, without being drowned by guilt or despair?

Her words reflect a tension many older generations are grappling with. As Leslie Davenport, our resident climate-aware therapist, reminds us: this mix of guilt and grief can be reframed as a starting point for connection and meaningful action — the most powerful acts of love we can offer. Head to the link in bio to read more!

Have you noticed an intensification of nostalgic aesthetics and what’s been called “nostalgiacore” as a possible coping response to the polycrisis, particularly amongst young people?

Thanks to Atmos and journalist Daphne Milner for drawing these connections.

As I shared in this article: “I don’t want to write it off as being only some kind of retreat from reality or escapism because there’s certainly a place and a time for this kind of comfort-seeking,” Wray says. “It’s just that we cannot hang out under the covers forever. We need to find ways of breeding up more hardcore existential resilience so that we can actually engage in transformative actions with others to build a better world rather than just hide away from the scary system in which we’re living.”

Read full article over at @atmos 🪐

Have you noticed an intensification of nostalgic aesthetics and what’s been called “nostalgiacore” as a possible coping response to the polycrisis, particularly amongst young people?

Thanks to Atmos and journalist Daphne Milner for drawing these connections.

As I shared in this article: “I don’t want to write it off as being only some kind of retreat from reality or escapism because there’s certainly a place and a time for this kind of comfort-seeking,” Wray says. “It’s just that we cannot hang out under the covers forever. We need to find ways of breeding up more hardcore existential resilience so that we can actually engage in transformative actions with others to build a better world rather than just hide away from the scary system in which we’re living.”

Read full article over at @atmos 🪐

This week in Gen Dread, a reader shares a deeply conflicted feeling: the horror of knowing the devastation and suffering to come in the days leading up to Hurricane Milton, mixed with a hope that if the wreckage were intense enough, maybe this disaster would finally wake people up to the climate crisis.

It’s an uncomfortable tension—one many of us carry but rarely name out loud. Our climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responded with compassion and insight, inviting us to see this as a reflection of external, systemic failures rather than something shameful. She spoke of the need for “a dream and a nightmare” in order to hold the weight of anguish while still daring to imagine a better way forward. Head over to reach the full exchange on Gen Dread at the link in bio!

This week in Gen Dread, a reader shares a deeply conflicted feeling: the horror of knowing the devastation and suffering to come in the days leading up to Hurricane Milton, mixed with a hope that if the wreckage were intense enough, maybe this disaster would finally wake people up to the climate crisis.

It’s an uncomfortable tension—one many of us carry but rarely name out loud. Our climate-aware therapist, Caroline Hickman, responded with compassion and insight, inviting us to see this as a reflection of external, systemic failures rather than something shameful. She spoke of the need for “a dream and a nightmare” in order to hold the weight of anguish while still daring to imagine a better way forward. Head over to reach the full exchange on Gen Dread at the link in bio!

After last week’s U.S. election, the reality of what’s ahead is setting in, with climate-denying leaders threatening critical protections for our environment and the rights of LGBTQ+, women, migrants’ and more marginalized groups. In a world fixated on speed and desensitization, it’s critical to carve out spaces to genuinely feel the depth of what’s unfolding before us. We invite you to share how you’re processing, what’s helping you feel supported, and how you’re navigating differing views around you. Head over to Gen Dread (link in bio), read how others are doing, and leave a comment if you feel compelled.

After last week’s U.S. election, the reality of what’s ahead is setting in, with climate-denying leaders threatening critical protections for our environment and the rights of LGBTQ+, women, migrants’ and more marginalized groups. In a world fixated on speed and desensitization, it’s critical to carve out spaces to genuinely feel the depth of what’s unfolding before us. We invite you to share how you’re processing, what’s helping you feel supported, and how you’re navigating differing views around you. Head over to Gen Dread (link in bio), read how others are doing, and leave a comment if you feel compelled.

Election emotions are intense right now, and we honour yours. This week on Gen Dread we start with that and then hand the reins to Matthew Green, global investigations editor at DeSmog and co-host of the Pocket Project’s Climate Consciousness Summit that’s happening November 15-21. Matthew interviewed Lindsey Gulden, a former ExxonMobil employee about her courageous journey from industry insider to whistleblower. Initially, Lindsey believed she could contribute positively to climate solutions from within the company. However, a growing awareness of Exxon’s deceptive practices, like promoting false solutions and waging a billion-dollar disinformation campaign, revealed a far graver reality. Armed with her insider knowledge, Lindsey now feels compelled by a moral duty to expose the industry’s betrayal and abuse of the public social good, and calls for collective resistance to fossil fuel industry disinformation. Link in bio.

Election emotions are intense right now, and we honour yours. This week on Gen Dread we start with that and then hand the reins to Matthew Green, global investigations editor at DeSmog and co-host of the Pocket Project’s Climate Consciousness Summit that’s happening November 15-21. Matthew interviewed Lindsey Gulden, a former ExxonMobil employee about her courageous journey from industry insider to whistleblower. Initially, Lindsey believed she could contribute positively to climate solutions from within the company. However, a growing awareness of Exxon’s deceptive practices, like promoting false solutions and waging a billion-dollar disinformation campaign, revealed a far graver reality. Armed with her insider knowledge, Lindsey now feels compelled by a moral duty to expose the industry’s betrayal and abuse of the public social good, and calls for collective resistance to fossil fuel industry disinformation. Link in bio.

This week in our Dear Climate Therapist column, an instructor asks for advice on supporting students grappling with the emotional toll of climate science studies. Our resident therapist, Kyle Hill, shared powerful wisdom: instead of relying on superficial self-care, we must embrace mutual care. Grief, anxiety, and fear should be acknowledged in community—not faced alone. Drawing from Indigenous teachings, Kyle reminds us that we’re all part of a vast web of kinship, connecting us to each other and the earth. Healing happens together. Link in bio.

This week in our Dear Climate Therapist column, an instructor asks for advice on supporting students grappling with the emotional toll of climate science studies. Our resident therapist, Kyle Hill, shared powerful wisdom: instead of relying on superficial self-care, we must embrace mutual care. Grief, anxiety, and fear should be acknowledged in community—not faced alone. Drawing from Indigenous teachings, Kyle reminds us that we’re all part of a vast web of kinship, connecting us to each other and the earth. Healing happens together. Link in bio.

✨New guest post on Gen Dread today!✨ Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor at UC Riverside, explores a big, complicated question that so many are asking; one that we’ve covered through a variety of angles before: how are people thinking about having kids in the climate crisis?

In her powerful new book, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question, Jade delves into the intersection of climate change, race, and reproductive justice. She challenges us to rethink how we build our families—focusing on equity, collective action, and the importance of addressing vulnerability in marginalized communities.

“Climate change heightened people’s feelings of social vulnerability,” she says, “exacerbating mental health challenges, and making people rethink their plans to have children.” Read Jade’s piece at the link in bio.

✨New guest post on Gen Dread today!✨ Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor at UC Riverside, explores a big, complicated question that so many are asking; one that we’ve covered through a variety of angles before: how are people thinking about having kids in the climate crisis?

In her powerful new book, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question, Jade delves into the intersection of climate change, race, and reproductive justice. She challenges us to rethink how we build our families—focusing on equity, collective action, and the importance of addressing vulnerability in marginalized communities.

“Climate change heightened people’s feelings of social vulnerability,” she says, “exacerbating mental health challenges, and making people rethink their plans to have children.” Read Jade’s piece at the link in bio.

@annetheresegennari a.k.a. “The Climate Optimist” sat down with us to talk about what climate optimism means to her and why it’s essential as a sustainable leadership strategy. She believes that in order for us to invite and imagine the sort of future that wants to emerge, we need different kinds of leadership skills that deal in the inner realm.

She says, “It’s like we’re all waiting for that reminder, that permission almost, to feel good about the world. We tend to forget that the incredible things we’ve already created came from a willingness to work for change and that radical optimists of the past have paved the path for the world we take for granted today”.

From college students to lifelong activists to industry professionals, she says engaging in optimistic practices is necessary as a strategy for joyful survival. Head over to Gen Dread to read our convo (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’)

@annetheresegennari a.k.a. “The Climate Optimist” sat down with us to talk about what climate optimism means to her and why it’s essential as a sustainable leadership strategy. She believes that in order for us to invite and imagine the sort of future that wants to emerge, we need different kinds of leadership skills that deal in the inner realm.

She says, “It’s like we’re all waiting for that reminder, that permission almost, to feel good about the world. We tend to forget that the incredible things we’ve already created came from a willingness to work for change and that radical optimists of the past have paved the path for the world we take for granted today”.

From college students to lifelong activists to industry professionals, she says engaging in optimistic practices is necessary as a strategy for joyful survival. Head over to Gen Dread to read our convo (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’)

Last handful of days have reignited in me why I am so obsessed with doing this heart centered climate work. Got to film with @bigpictureranch for their ambitious documentary about regeneration in the climate crisis, speak amongst redwoods with the delightful and inspiring @spencer.r.scott and @nschwanz from @solarpunkfarms , scheme about climate distress offerings with the talented @raeoquirrhdial , lead a training in climate distress skills for mental health clinicians at @stanford , interview rhetoric expert Genevieve Guenther about her stunning new book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS @cwclub and have dinner with the mighty @justinjpearson amongst other incredible climate leaders and I’m just….in awe. There are so many good people out there charging a brighter way through this struggle we are all in as the atmospheric physics around us change in ways we’d much rather them not, and I am recharged and grateful.

Last handful of days have reignited in me why I am so obsessed with doing this heart centered climate work. Got to film with @bigpictureranch for their ambitious documentary about regeneration in the climate crisis, speak amongst redwoods with the delightful and inspiring @spencer.r.scott and @nschwanz from @solarpunkfarms , scheme about climate distress offerings with the talented @raeoquirrhdial , lead a training in climate distress skills for mental health clinicians at @stanford , interview rhetoric expert Genevieve Guenther about her stunning new book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS @cwclub and have dinner with the mighty @justinjpearson amongst other incredible climate leaders and I’m just….in awe. There are so many good people out there charging a brighter way through this struggle we are all in as the atmospheric physics around us change in ways we’d much rather them not, and I am recharged and grateful.

This week on Gen Dread we’re back with our Climate Therapist column, where readers write in with any question they might have about how the climate crisis is affecting them emotionally.

This week climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport @ldavenportauthor offers some tangible support to a reader who’s feeling frustrated with what she perceives as climate apathy in the people around her (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’).

This week on Gen Dread we’re back with our Climate Therapist column, where readers write in with any question they might have about how the climate crisis is affecting them emotionally.

This week climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport @ldavenportauthor offers some tangible support to a reader who’s feeling frustrated with what she perceives as climate apathy in the people around her (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’).

This week on Gen Dread we’re back with a double-edition of The Climate Therapist, where readers write to us with any question they might have about how the climate crisis is making them feel. Kyle Hill, Leslie Davenport, and Caroline Hickman make up our superteam of climate-aware therapists, and this week Caroline answers two different questions from our community – one about the guilt of flying when one’s lover and family are in different continents, and another about how to manage the intense catastrophizing a lot of us do as we watch our climate worsen.

Head over to Gen Dread to read our climate therapist’s responses (at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’)

This week on Gen Dread we’re back with a double-edition of The Climate Therapist, where readers write to us with any question they might have about how the climate crisis is making them feel. Kyle Hill, Leslie Davenport, and Caroline Hickman make up our superteam of climate-aware therapists, and this week Caroline answers two different questions from our community – one about the guilt of flying when one’s lover and family are in different continents, and another about how to manage the intense catastrophizing a lot of us do as we watch our climate worsen.

Head over to Gen Dread to read our climate therapist’s responses (at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’)

Do you know the term solastalgia? The Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht came up with it in 2005 to describe the impacts of the mining industry on the people who lived nearby. The term conveys the sense of loss people feel when their home is being threatened or destroyed. It’s since become a ubiquitous concept in the climate and mental health space, and certainly in some ways, in some situations, it can be a useful and valuable addition to our lexicon.

But as @jemaima_tiatiasiau explains, as with so many Western paradigms, it excludes and misrepresents many people in the Global South – Pacific Islanders in particular – and fails to capture some of the crucial dimensions in which they experience being alive. Jemaima is a professor at the School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies at the @universityofauckland - she is of Samoan descent and her work centres around Pacific peoples’ mental health and wellbeing, including the systemic injustices that contribute to their struggle for emotional equilibrium.

On Gen Dread today, Jemaima explains why we need a more expansive understanding of life and loss (link in bio)

Do you know the term solastalgia? The Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht came up with it in 2005 to describe the impacts of the mining industry on the people who lived nearby. The term conveys the sense of loss people feel when their home is being threatened or destroyed. It’s since become a ubiquitous concept in the climate and mental health space, and certainly in some ways, in some situations, it can be a useful and valuable addition to our lexicon.

But as @jemaima_tiatiasiau explains, as with so many Western paradigms, it excludes and misrepresents many people in the Global South – Pacific Islanders in particular – and fails to capture some of the crucial dimensions in which they experience being alive. Jemaima is a professor at the School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies at the @universityofauckland - she is of Samoan descent and her work centres around Pacific peoples’ mental health and wellbeing, including the systemic injustices that contribute to their struggle for emotional equilibrium.

On Gen Dread today, Jemaima explains why we need a more expansive understanding of life and loss (link in bio)

John Jamir Bezon Aruta is a psychology and sustainability professor at De La Salle University @dlsu in Manila, Philippines. Today on Gen Dread, he talks about how the Global North bias shows up in the realm of climate change and mental health, and why it’s so infuriating to people in the Global South.

He says: “Many times you hear Global North scholars, policymakers, and experts saying they will help the Global South, like a messianic kind of perspective. That they are here to help the Global South. That they have the technology and they have the knowledge. As if the Global South knows nothing.”

Head over to Gen Dread now to read the full conversation with John (at the link in our bio under ‘Newsletter’)

John Jamir Bezon Aruta is a psychology and sustainability professor at De La Salle University @dlsu in Manila, Philippines. Today on Gen Dread, he talks about how the Global North bias shows up in the realm of climate change and mental health, and why it’s so infuriating to people in the Global South.

He says: “Many times you hear Global North scholars, policymakers, and experts saying they will help the Global South, like a messianic kind of perspective. That they are here to help the Global South. That they have the technology and they have the knowledge. As if the Global South knows nothing.”

Head over to Gen Dread now to read the full conversation with John (at the link in our bio under ‘Newsletter’)

As you may know, we’ve recently launched a feature on Gen Dread called Dear Climate Therapist, where you can write to us with any question you have about how the climate crisis is affecting you mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Our incredible and empathetic team of three climate-aware therapists – Kyle Hill, Leslie Davenport, and Caroline Hickman – will choose a question and one of them will respond in detail.

This week, Kyle is taking the reins as he responds to a question from a reader who is feeling caught between two fronts of climate denial.

Head over to Gen Dread (at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’) to hear about what they’re struggling with and to read our climate therapist’s response.

As you may know, we’ve recently launched a feature on Gen Dread called Dear Climate Therapist, where you can write to us with any question you have about how the climate crisis is affecting you mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Our incredible and empathetic team of three climate-aware therapists – Kyle Hill, Leslie Davenport, and Caroline Hickman – will choose a question and one of them will respond in detail.

This week, Kyle is taking the reins as he responds to a question from a reader who is feeling caught between two fronts of climate denial.

Head over to Gen Dread (at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’) to hear about what they’re struggling with and to read our climate therapist’s response.

Today is #nationalindigenouspeoplesday in Canada. Climate justice is intimately entangled with Indigenous rights; there’s no sustainable future without honouring and centring the original caretakers of these vast and varied lands – their history, their story, and their wisdom. If you’re looking to listen, learn, and unlearn today, here are some books by Indigenous authors that help to illuminate why this day is so vitally important.

We chose these books by Indigenous authors because they represent different regions of the country, they made us think, made us pause, and helped us start to unlearn the very whitewashed version of history many of us grew up learning in Canadian schools. Today’s a good day to pick up one of these books and explore the ways generational trauma, residential schools, the spiritual realm, and systemic racism have shaped the stories of this land and its people.

Today is #nationalindigenouspeoplesday in Canada. Climate justice is intimately entangled with Indigenous rights; there’s no sustainable future without honouring and centring the original caretakers of these vast and varied lands – their history, their story, and their wisdom. If you’re looking to listen, learn, and unlearn today, here are some books by Indigenous authors that help to illuminate why this day is so vitally important.

We chose these books by Indigenous authors because they represent different regions of the country, they made us think, made us pause, and helped us start to unlearn the very whitewashed version of history many of us grew up learning in Canadian schools. Today’s a good day to pick up one of these books and explore the ways generational trauma, residential schools, the spiritual realm, and systemic racism have shaped the stories of this land and its people.

In honour of #juneteenth we are turning the spotlight on @leahpenniman - a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author, and food justice activist from @soulfirefarm in Grafton, NY. Swipe to read, or read the caption below:

There’s an astonishing essay by Leah Penniman called “Black Gold”, which appears in the 2020 anthology @allwecansave : Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. The essay begins with a teenager, Dijour Carter, refusing to get out of a van as it pulls up and parks at Soul Fire Farm in New York. Why? He doesn’t want to get his sneakers dirty. Penniman says, “Almost without exception, when I ask Black visitors to the farm what they think of when they see the soil, they respond with ‘slavery’ or ‘plantation’...for many of our ancestors, freedom from terror and separation from the soil were synonymous.”

But Dijour eventually joins his peers, taking off his shoes and finally allowing his feet to touch the soil. Penniman then says:

“Dijour, typically stoic and reserved, broke into tears during the closing circle at the end of that day. He explained that when he was very young, his grandmother had shown him how to garden and how to gently hold a handful of soil teeming with insects. She had died years ago, and he had forgotten these lessons. When he removed his shoes on the tour and let the mud reach his feet, the memory of her and of the land traveled from the earth, through his soles, and to his heart. He said that it felt like he was ‘finally home.’”

On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas were given the news that they were freed by then-president Abraham Lincoln. In the US, Juneteenth is a necessary "Second Independence Day", so today we honour the deeply sacred and spiritual connection Black people originally had to land and nature, and we recognize the horrific and violent ways colonialism and capitalism exploited, perverted, and destroyed that connection. True freedom means living in reciprocity and reverence with the nature, and we continue to work toward a world that makes it safe and life-giving for Black people everywhere to reconnect with the lands they call home.

[Image credit: Leah Penniman]

In honour of #juneteenth we are turning the spotlight on @leahpenniman - a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author, and food justice activist from @soulfirefarm in Grafton, NY. Swipe to read, or read the caption below:

There’s an astonishing essay by Leah Penniman called “Black Gold”, which appears in the 2020 anthology @allwecansave : Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. The essay begins with a teenager, Dijour Carter, refusing to get out of a van as it pulls up and parks at Soul Fire Farm in New York. Why? He doesn’t want to get his sneakers dirty. Penniman says, “Almost without exception, when I ask Black visitors to the farm what they think of when they see the soil, they respond with ‘slavery’ or ‘plantation’...for many of our ancestors, freedom from terror and separation from the soil were synonymous.”

But Dijour eventually joins his peers, taking off his shoes and finally allowing his feet to touch the soil. Penniman then says:

“Dijour, typically stoic and reserved, broke into tears during the closing circle at the end of that day. He explained that when he was very young, his grandmother had shown him how to garden and how to gently hold a handful of soil teeming with insects. She had died years ago, and he had forgotten these lessons. When he removed his shoes on the tour and let the mud reach his feet, the memory of her and of the land traveled from the earth, through his soles, and to his heart. He said that it felt like he was ‘finally home.’”

On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas were given the news that they were freed by then-president Abraham Lincoln. In the US, Juneteenth is a necessary "Second Independence Day", so today we honour the deeply sacred and spiritual connection Black people originally had to land and nature, and we recognize the horrific and violent ways colonialism and capitalism exploited, perverted, and destroyed that connection. True freedom means living in reciprocity and reverence with the nature, and we continue to work toward a world that makes it safe and life-giving for Black people everywhere to reconnect with the lands they call home.

[Image credit: Leah Penniman]

In our newest edition of “The Climate Therapist”, clinician Leslie Davenport @ldavenportauthor responds to a reader who is experiencing sky-high anxiety about another ‘horror summer’ in Western Australia (link in bio - under ‘Newsletter’).

This piece explores how getting stuck on high alert erodes our energy and prevents us from engaging with life. But as Leslie suggests, with tools and practical strategies, we can grow our mental, emotional, and existential capacities. And we can all learn how to create practices that show us how to welcome, honor, validate, and process our fears, while also helping to contain them.

Our form is always open and completely anonymous, so submit any and all of your burning questions at the top link in our bio!

In our newest edition of “The Climate Therapist”, clinician Leslie Davenport @ldavenportauthor responds to a reader who is experiencing sky-high anxiety about another ‘horror summer’ in Western Australia (link in bio - under ‘Newsletter’).

This piece explores how getting stuck on high alert erodes our energy and prevents us from engaging with life. But as Leslie suggests, with tools and practical strategies, we can grow our mental, emotional, and existential capacities. And we can all learn how to create practices that show us how to welcome, honor, validate, and process our fears, while also helping to contain them.

Our form is always open and completely anonymous, so submit any and all of your burning questions at the top link in our bio!

In parts of the Global North, we’re starting to do a better job of closing up the chasm that exists between personal feelings and professional life. Increasingly, we’re recognizing the absurdity of existing within the climate crisis and somehow presenting yourself as neutral about it.

But as you’ll read in our conversation with @tizamafira of @iddkp - the perception of professionalism in Indonesia’s environmental movement still doesn’t make much space for people’s feelings of eco-grief. In honour of both Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, head over to Gen Dread now to read what Tiza has to say (link in bio, under “Newsletter”).

#aapiheritagemonth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

In parts of the Global North, we’re starting to do a better job of closing up the chasm that exists between personal feelings and professional life. Increasingly, we’re recognizing the absurdity of existing within the climate crisis and somehow presenting yourself as neutral about it.

But as you’ll read in our conversation with @tizamafira of @iddkp - the perception of professionalism in Indonesia’s environmental movement still doesn’t make much space for people’s feelings of eco-grief. In honour of both Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, head over to Gen Dread now to read what Tiza has to say (link in bio, under “Newsletter”).

#aapiheritagemonth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

We’re thrilled to bring you the very first installment of our new bi-monthly advice column, “The Climate Therapist” on Gen Dread!

Many of you wrote in about how the climate crisis is affecting your daily life, emotions, work, parenting, relationships, wellbeing and so much more. In this first edition, climate-aware therapist Caroline Hickman expertly guides a climate professional on how to approach their feelings of resentment and burnout that makes them want to quit (link in bio under ‘Newsletter’)

If you have a question you’d like to ask, our form is always open and completely anonymous. Submit any and all questions at the top link in our bio!

We’re thrilled to bring you the very first installment of our new bi-monthly advice column, “The Climate Therapist” on Gen Dread!

Many of you wrote in about how the climate crisis is affecting your daily life, emotions, work, parenting, relationships, wellbeing and so much more. In this first edition, climate-aware therapist Caroline Hickman expertly guides a climate professional on how to approach their feelings of resentment and burnout that makes them want to quit (link in bio under ‘Newsletter’)

If you have a question you’d like to ask, our form is always open and completely anonymous. Submit any and all questions at the top link in our bio!

When we surveyed our readers in Gen Dread last year, a majority told us they’d love to see a climate-aware therapist column be made available. Ta da! We’re so happy to now be in a position to offer this, and hope it’s a valuable resource to learn and grow together.

Our incredible roster of therapists is a trinity of wisdom including Leslie Davenport, Kyle Hill, and Caroline Hickman. It’s no surprise that we need help answering the enormous, mind-boggling existential questions that the climate emergency is collectively surfacing for so many of us, so any and all climate/eco emotions, mental health and resilience questions are welcome. Plus, it’s totally anonymous, so permission is fully granted to bring forth whatever difficult, worrisome predicaments and dilemmas you’re rolling around in.

Read our launch piece (link in bio under ‘Newsletter) and go to the top link in our bio to submit your burning questions, and please do share far and wide!

When we surveyed our readers in Gen Dread last year, a majority told us they’d love to see a climate-aware therapist column be made available. Ta da! We’re so happy to now be in a position to offer this, and hope it’s a valuable resource to learn and grow together.

Our incredible roster of therapists is a trinity of wisdom including Leslie Davenport, Kyle Hill, and Caroline Hickman. It’s no surprise that we need help answering the enormous, mind-boggling existential questions that the climate emergency is collectively surfacing for so many of us, so any and all climate/eco emotions, mental health and resilience questions are welcome. Plus, it’s totally anonymous, so permission is fully granted to bring forth whatever difficult, worrisome predicaments and dilemmas you’re rolling around in.

Read our launch piece (link in bio under ‘Newsletter) and go to the top link in our bio to submit your burning questions, and please do share far and wide!

It's Independent Bookstore Day! We deeply appreciate the vibrant community of indie bookstores and the diverse stories they bring to our lives. The convenience of ordering from online giants is nice, but the relationship among readers, writers, publishers, and independent booksellers is vital today. We’d love it if you’d consider purchasing Generation Dread from Bookshop.org today. Shop local, support indie, and keep the love of reading alive! (Top link in bio under "Books")

#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #bookstoreday#indiebookstore #bookstagram #shoplocal #bookstore #books #shopsmall #independentbookstore #booklover #bookshop #bibliophile #buylocal #reading #supportindies #localbookstore #booknerd

It's Independent Bookstore Day! We deeply appreciate the vibrant community of indie bookstores and the diverse stories they bring to our lives. The convenience of ordering from online giants is nice, but the relationship among readers, writers, publishers, and independent booksellers is vital today. We’d love it if you’d consider purchasing Generation Dread from Bookshop.org today. Shop local, support indie, and keep the love of reading alive! (Top link in bio under "Books")

#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #bookstoreday#indiebookstore #bookstagram #shoplocal #bookstore #books #shopsmall #independentbookstore #booklover #bookshop #bibliophile #buylocal #reading #supportindies #localbookstore #booknerd

In celebration of Earth Day this week, National Academies Excellence in SciComm asked Britt to give us an insider's perspective on her experiences communicating the mental health impacts of climate change. If you're a climate communicator, what resonates with you?

In celebration of Earth Day this week, National Academies Excellence in SciComm asked Britt to give us an insider's perspective on her experiences communicating the mental health impacts of climate change. If you're a climate communicator, what resonates with you?

Big Earth Day excitement over here! The legendary, big-hearted activist for the planet, Joanna Macy and our dear friend @jess_serrante just launched a brave, fascinating, and vulnerable new podcast called We Are The Great Turning.

Each episode is a kitchen table conversation about climate grief, aging, emotional resilience, and how to make it through the climate crisis with our hearts protected, but still wide open.

Check out the interview in Gen Dread, then go listen to this beautiful offering (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’).

Big Earth Day excitement over here! The legendary, big-hearted activist for the planet, Joanna Macy and our dear friend @jess_serrante just launched a brave, fascinating, and vulnerable new podcast called We Are The Great Turning.

Each episode is a kitchen table conversation about climate grief, aging, emotional resilience, and how to make it through the climate crisis with our hearts protected, but still wide open.

Check out the interview in Gen Dread, then go listen to this beautiful offering (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’).

I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2024 Planetary Health Summit and 6th Annual Meeting plenary session this week. My talk, "Leveraging Emotions: Eco-Anxiety, Planetary Health Action, and the Power in Feelings" delved into and addressed the immense pressure faced by frontline climate and planetary health professionals.

#pham2024 @sunwaycph

I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2024 Planetary Health Summit and 6th Annual Meeting plenary session this week. My talk, "Leveraging Emotions: Eco-Anxiety, Planetary Health Action, and the Power in Feelings" delved into and addressed the immense pressure faced by frontline climate and planetary health professionals.

#pham2024 @sunwaycph

If you come visit Nick and Spencer’s queer-run @solarpunkfarms regenerative farm in Guerneville, California, the most important thing @nschwanz and @spencer.r.scott want you to see is that they have no idea what they’re doing.

Head over to Gen Dread now (at the link in our bio, under ’Newsletter’) to read about why it’s so crucial for regular people to have a physical place they can go to try on a sustainable future – and why you absolutely don’t need to be an expert to get started.

If you come visit Nick and Spencer’s queer-run @solarpunkfarms regenerative farm in Guerneville, California, the most important thing @nschwanz and @spencer.r.scott want you to see is that they have no idea what they’re doing.

Head over to Gen Dread now (at the link in our bio, under ’Newsletter’) to read about why it’s so crucial for regular people to have a physical place they can go to try on a sustainable future – and why you absolutely don’t need to be an expert to get started.

Why is climate change a threat multiplier - and how is it affecting our mental health? Our own Britt Wray discusses eco-anxiety in this amazing @bbcstoryworks #Advertisement feature presented by @gchalliance

#TheClimateAndUs series streaming now at the link in our bio (Under ‘Resources’)

Why is climate change a threat multiplier - and how is it affecting our mental health? Our own Britt Wray discusses eco-anxiety in this amazing @bbcstoryworks #Advertisement feature presented by @gchalliance

#TheClimateAndUs series streaming now at the link in our bio (Under ‘Resources’)

Ashton Russell was an HIV/AIDS outreach worker in New Orleans, a young father, a son, a brother, and a cherished member of a new community my colleagues and I are building called Climate Conversations, which brings New Orleans elders and youth together to share their climate distress and strengthen their bonds as the city becomes increasingly susceptible to climate-related disasters.

On December 7, 2023, Ashton was shot and killed in Houston, Texas after attending a basketball game. His community is in complete shock, and his loved ones are struggling to afford a memorial service and burial.

As a Black man from New Orleans, Ashton was particularly vulnerable to the horrors of guns. In New Orleans, Black men make up 30% of the population but 80% of the city’s homicide victims. At Gen Dread, we know how systemic injustices are tangled up and dependent on each other. We understand how the climate crisis exacerbates and further ignites racism, mental health distress, and poverty — all of which can lead to increased violence.

If you’re able to support Ashton’s mother Allyson and the rest of their family, we’d be so very grateful for your donation. You can donate any amount at the top link in our bio.

And we really appreciate you reading Ashton’s story, spreading the word, and holding him in your thoughts. You can find the story at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’.

Ashton Russell was an HIV/AIDS outreach worker in New Orleans, a young father, a son, a brother, and a cherished member of a new community my colleagues and I are building called Climate Conversations, which brings New Orleans elders and youth together to share their climate distress and strengthen their bonds as the city becomes increasingly susceptible to climate-related disasters.

On December 7, 2023, Ashton was shot and killed in Houston, Texas after attending a basketball game. His community is in complete shock, and his loved ones are struggling to afford a memorial service and burial.

As a Black man from New Orleans, Ashton was particularly vulnerable to the horrors of guns. In New Orleans, Black men make up 30% of the population but 80% of the city’s homicide victims. At Gen Dread, we know how systemic injustices are tangled up and dependent on each other. We understand how the climate crisis exacerbates and further ignites racism, mental health distress, and poverty — all of which can lead to increased violence.

If you’re able to support Ashton’s mother Allyson and the rest of their family, we’d be so very grateful for your donation. You can donate any amount at the top link in our bio.

And we really appreciate you reading Ashton’s story, spreading the word, and holding him in your thoughts. You can find the story at the link in our bio, under ‘Newsletter’.

Today on Gen Dread, Canadian environmentalist and career counselor Trevor Lehmann @trevor_lehmann shares a poignant personal essay about confronting his own mortality unexpectedly early in life, and how it’s mentally prepared him to fight for climate justice.

Head over to Gen Dread at the link in our bio (under ‘Newsletter’) to read about how a serious illness is helping Trevor immerse himself in a life of climate activism – however long that life is.

Today on Gen Dread, Canadian environmentalist and career counselor Trevor Lehmann @trevor_lehmann shares a poignant personal essay about confronting his own mortality unexpectedly early in life, and how it’s mentally prepared him to fight for climate justice.

Head over to Gen Dread at the link in our bio (under ‘Newsletter’) to read about how a serious illness is helping Trevor immerse himself in a life of climate activism – however long that life is.

At 25, Cass Hebron @cass.hebron was working in climate policy in Brussels, pouring her heart into the movement, and writing her climate justice newsletter, @thegreenfix_ - but her body was starting to unravel. She had reached a state of burnout so intense she opted to take dedicated time off to re-centre herself and heal.

With a bit of distance and space, Cass began to see some glaring hypocrisies in the values the climate movement claims to cherish versus the way it treats its people and their mental health. Today on Gen Dread (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’) Cass explains how she became an “accidental capitalist” and how her burnout has changed her approach to work.

At 25, Cass Hebron @cass.hebron was working in climate policy in Brussels, pouring her heart into the movement, and writing her climate justice newsletter, @thegreenfix_ - but her body was starting to unravel. She had reached a state of burnout so intense she opted to take dedicated time off to re-centre herself and heal.

With a bit of distance and space, Cass began to see some glaring hypocrisies in the values the climate movement claims to cherish versus the way it treats its people and their mental health. Today on Gen Dread (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’) Cass explains how she became an “accidental capitalist” and how her burnout has changed her approach to work.

Angelou Ezeilo @angelouezeilo didn’t think she was allowed to be an environmentalist.

When she was growing up as a Black girl in the U.S., she had no idea that a career in environmentalism was possible. “There were just no images,” she explains. “No marketing. It fed into an unconscious bias of why a lot of people of colour didn’t pursue those careers or were not even aware of the field. Because when you looked at magazines or anything to do with the outdoors, there weren’t people that look like me represented. That sends a signal to a young child that that’s not for them.”

Angelou had to discover that world as an adult and carve out space for herself within it. And today, she’s an activist, author, and entrepreneur whose work straddles the U.S. and Western Africa, giving her a unique dual perspective on how young people exist in relation to the natural world. Today on Gen Dread (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’), Angelou shares the triumphs and pushback of doing this work.

Angelou Ezeilo @angelouezeilo didn’t think she was allowed to be an environmentalist.

When she was growing up as a Black girl in the U.S., she had no idea that a career in environmentalism was possible. “There were just no images,” she explains. “No marketing. It fed into an unconscious bias of why a lot of people of colour didn’t pursue those careers or were not even aware of the field. Because when you looked at magazines or anything to do with the outdoors, there weren’t people that look like me represented. That sends a signal to a young child that that’s not for them.”

Angelou had to discover that world as an adult and carve out space for herself within it. And today, she’s an activist, author, and entrepreneur whose work straddles the U.S. and Western Africa, giving her a unique dual perspective on how young people exist in relation to the natural world. Today on Gen Dread (link in bio, under ‘Newsletter’), Angelou shares the triumphs and pushback of doing this work.

As we come to the end of #blackhistorymonth we want to revisit one last Gen Dread guest whose work echoes and helps evolve the legacy of African American activism.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is a Nigerian-American philosopher and professor at Georgetown University. In his recent book Reconsidering Reparations, he makes a case for the U.S. government compensating Black people with cash, land, and other resources for the harms they endured during slavery. You may have heard this argument before – but Táíwò’s version insists on climate justice as the central lens of reasoning.

“The possibility of keeping justice alive in our time hinges on our response to the reality of a warming planet,” he says in the book. “As climate impacts accelerate, we can expect them to perversely distribute the costs and burdens of climate change, disproportionately impacting those who have been rendered most vulnerable given the accumulated weight of history.”

Because colonialism and slavery have radically skewed who now has the most resources to be the most resilient as the planet warms and who does not, any response to the climate crisis must not only take that reality into account – but correct for it in the rollout of its solutions. The colonized are typically the most vulnerable to climate-related disaster, whereas the colonizers are the least vulnerable.

Swipe for more, and read the full conversation at the top link in our bio.

As we come to the end of #blackhistorymonth we want to revisit one last Gen Dread guest whose work echoes and helps evolve the legacy of African American activism.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is a Nigerian-American philosopher and professor at Georgetown University. In his recent book Reconsidering Reparations, he makes a case for the U.S. government compensating Black people with cash, land, and other resources for the harms they endured during slavery. You may have heard this argument before – but Táíwò’s version insists on climate justice as the central lens of reasoning.

“The possibility of keeping justice alive in our time hinges on our response to the reality of a warming planet,” he says in the book. “As climate impacts accelerate, we can expect them to perversely distribute the costs and burdens of climate change, disproportionately impacting those who have been rendered most vulnerable given the accumulated weight of history.”

Because colonialism and slavery have radically skewed who now has the most resources to be the most resilient as the planet warms and who does not, any response to the climate crisis must not only take that reality into account – but correct for it in the rollout of its solutions. The colonized are typically the most vulnerable to climate-related disaster, whereas the colonizers are the least vulnerable.

Swipe for more, and read the full conversation at the top link in our bio.

So grateful for this thoughtful recommendation 🧡

A special thank you to @queerbrownvegan for including Generation Dread in the giveaway, and for sharing the video with us.

PS: Generation Dread is now available in paperback version, link in bio (under ‘Book’) to order your copy!

So grateful for this thoughtful recommendation 🧡

A special thank you to @queerbrownvegan for including Generation Dread in the giveaway, and for sharing the video with us.

PS: Generation Dread is now available in paperback version, link in bio (under ‘Book’) to order your copy!

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