Resources for Your Heart and Mind
Essays, Poems, and More…
5 things that can help alleviate eco-anxiety: By Dekila Chungyalpa for Psychology Today
A map to the next world: A poem by Joy Harjo
Breathing with the forest: An Immersive video experience with Emergence Magazine
EcoPsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health from Yale 360
Envision the future of your community: David Suzuki Foundation
I am blessed: A song to sing out loud by Desirée Dawson
We were made for these times: An Essay by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Deep Thinking
Resources on Deep Thinking, Deep Resilience
A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene, An open access conceptual framework paper by the Loka Initiative
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, A book by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
bell hooks on Interlocking Systems of Domination: A short video interview
Capitalism Is “A Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality: Video interview with Arundhati Roy
Ecofeminism: A book by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
Relational Systems Thinking: An article by Melanie Goodchild
The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: An essay by Audre Lorde
White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization: An article by Kyle Powys Whyte
Ecological Emotions
Resources on Ecological Emotions
Active Hope; How to Face the Mess We Are In - Book by Joanna Macy
“Building Your Resilience” Article from the American Psychological Association
“From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing” - Academic article by S. Stanley, T. Hogg, Z. Leviston and I Walker
Generation Dread; Finding Purpose in An Age of Climate Anxiety - Book by Britt Wray
“How the Climate Crisis is Impacting Black People” - Article by Antjuan Seawright
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate - Book by Laura Schmidt
People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply - Article by Nylah Burton
“Who Gets to Have Eco-Anxiety?” - Article by Joseph Weiss
Eco-Anxiety
Academic Articles
Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco-Anxiety and Climate Anxiety - Panu Pihkala
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey - Hickman et al., 2021 (authors include Panu Pihkala & Susan Clayton)
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective - Jennifer Uchendu
Eco-anxiety: What it is and why it matters - Charlie Kurth & Panu Pihkala
Psychological and Emotional Responses to Climate Change among Young People Worldwide: Differences Associated with Gender, Age, and Country - Clayton et al., 2023 (authors include Susan Clayton, Panu Pihkala & Britt Wray)
Books
All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change – Leslie Davenport & Jessica Smith
Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change – Leslie Davenport
(Chapter from the book: Krieg C. & Toivanen R. 2021. Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts.)
Media articles
The Utility of White-Hot Rage - Emma Marris, The Atlantic
Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room - Ellen Barry, The New York Times
Jennifer Uchendu on founding The Eco-Anxiety in Africa Project - Bryony Cottam
Coping with Eco-Anxiety
Healthy Minds in Practice: Tonglen for Eco-Anxiety
5 Things That Can Alleviate Your Eco-Anxiety - Dekila Chungyalpa
Podcast
Eco-Anxiety with Professor Susan Clayton
All the feels: understanding eco-anxiety with Jennifer Uchendu
Videos
Reforging Our Connection to Nature - Dekila Chungyalpa
Panu Pikhala: Encountering eco-emotions and climate anxiety
Puistokatu 4: Eco-anxiety and eco-emotions (includes Susan Clayton and Panu Pihkala)
Launching The Eco Anxiety in Africa Project (TEAP). Includes Jennifer Uchendu
How is eco-anxiety jeopardizing the health of young people? (includes Susan Clayton)
Understanding Eco-anxiety and Environmental Related Emotions. Includes Jennifer Uchendu