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Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety

Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet

Megan Kennedy-Woodard author Dr Patrick Kennedy-Williams author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published:21st Jan '22

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This insightful book offers strategies to manage eco-anxiety and transform emotional responses into positive climate action. Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety empowers readers to take meaningful steps.

In Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety, the authors delve into the emotional landscape shaped by the climate emergency. They explore how feelings such as worry, anger, and grief can arise when confronted with environmental challenges. Rather than dismissing these emotions, the book advocates for harnessing them, validating their existence, and channeling them into constructive actions. By understanding eco-emotions, readers are empowered to protect both their mental health and the planet, fostering a sense of agency in the face of overwhelming circumstances.

The narrative acknowledges the difficulty of engaging with media that often highlights the negative aspects of climate change. This constant barrage can trigger a range of emotions, including sadness and guilt, but the authors also emphasize the importance of recognizing positive emotions such as motivation and care. These feelings can serve as a foundation for mental well-being and encourage sustainable action towards climate solutions.

Written by experienced psychologists, Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety provides practical strategies to address eco-anxiety. The book guides readers in assessing their psychological responses to the climate crisis, advocating for a shift away from unhealthy coping mechanisms like denial. Ultimately, it posits that the path to alleviating climate anxiety aligns with taking meaningful, sustainable actions that benefit both individuals and the environment.

When it comes to climate action, the obstacles we face are no longer technological, they are primarily political and psychological in nature. Read "Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety" and better understand those obstacles-doom, denial, and defeatism-- and how to circumnavigate them. -- Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University and author of “The New Climate War"
Are you losing sleep worrying over the Climate Crisis? I am. Do you feel powerless when confronted but such a huge global issue? I do. Is Climate Change starting to affect your mental health? If so, panic not, help is at hand with the brilliant book 'Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety' which acknowledges that climate anxiety is a real issue, empowers the reader to handle this anxiety and to use to it to make meaningful changes to the world around us. -- Prof. Mark Maslin - a deeply worried climate scientist and author of 'How To Save Our Planet: The Facts' (Penguin 2021)
The science is in, the reality is here and the noble challenge of the climate movement now is to help fellow humanity embrace their eco-anxiety and transform it into action...and build a more vibrant, productive and humane "normal". Turn the Tide takes us on the journey to this wild and hopeful alchemy. -- Sarah Wilson, journalist and New York Times bestselling author of This One Wild and Precious Life

Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety is a very interesting and empowering book that has given me new methods for handling and understanding climate anxiety in a comprehensive way.

-- Nathan Grossman, Documentary filmmaker, director of ‘I am Greta’

We all have a role to play in addressing climate change. This volume, both highly informed and highly readable, helps to understand the complex and sometimes uncomfortable emotions that accompany that role. Climate anxiety can be an opportunity that prompts us to strengthen our relationship with the earth.

-- Susan Clayton, Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster

Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety is an important book for an important audience.
If you are aware of climate change, aware of what you need to do to address the issue but need a little help with the how, then start here.
Galvanise yourself, look after yourself and turn anxiety into action.

-- Joe Duggan, science communicator, founder and coordinator of Is This How You Feel
As more and more people become aware of the reach of climate change, the need for attuned and evidenced support increases. Kennedy-Woodward and Kennedy-Williams perfectly timed, and much needed book offers a clear and accessible text to help readers understand the range of emotional responses, refrain from pathologising these in anyway and find ways to move from anxiety to action. Sadly, this book is likely to become more and more important as time goes on. -- Prof. Martin Milton, Chair of Division of Counselling Psychology Climate and Environmental Crisis workstream (British Psychological Society), author of The Personal is Political: Stories of difference and psychotherapy

ISBN: 9781839970672

Dimensions: 210mm x 136mm x 26mm

Weight: 220g

208 pages