A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health

by Anouchka Grose

Overview

This is the first mainstream book to tackle the growing phenomenon of eco-anxiety. Written by a psychoanalyst, with a foreword from Greenpeace's Ed Gillespie, this book offers emotional tools and strategies to ease anxiety by taking positive action on a personal and community level.

A Guide to Eco-Anxiety outlines a manifesto for action, connection and hope. Showing how to harness anxiety for positive action, as well as effective ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint.

The most powerful thing we can do to combat climate change is to talk about it and act collectively. But despite it being an emergency, most people don't bring climate change into conversation in everyday life.

The book explores the health impact of experiencing eco-anxiety, grief and trauma, and signposts recommended treatments and therapies. It also tackles practical issues such as: why it's important to reduce plastic waste; parenting and the choice to have a family; which is more effective to bring your carbon footprint down, go vegan or fly less?

The book will cultivate a pragmatic form of hope by offering a dynamic toolkit packed with practical ways to connect with community and systemic support, self-care practices to ease the symptoms of anxiety, and strategies to spread awareness and - crucially - bring about change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786784292
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,089,318
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Anouchka Grose is a British-Australian psychoanalyst and writer.
She is passionately concerned about the effect of the climate crisis on our mental health. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and Beyond Belief, and is the author of several other books around subjects from psychoanalysis to vegetarianism.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ed Gillespie, a Director of Greenpeace UK and a Trustee of Energy Revolution ix

Introduction 1

1 Anxiety: Freaking the F**k Out 7

2 Cry, Baby: Grieve But Never Give Up 27

3 Pre-Traumatic Stress: Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen (But Then Again It Already Is …) 43

4 Denial: Strictly For the Birds 61

5 Friendliness Gets Radical: Draw on Your Inner Resources 81

6 Babies, Parenting and Climate Conversations with Children 101

7 Pleasure Yourself: You Know You Want To 115

8 Do the Right Thing (Whatever That Is) 135

9 Hope is Allowed: Don't Stop Believing 151

10 Resilience: Bounce Back Stronger 165

Appendix: "Talking to My Therapist About Climate Anxiety" Nadia Lines 178

Notes 179

Further Reading 183

Resources 184

Acknowledgements 186

Index 187

Editorial Reviews

"An awesome and important book!" - Clover Hogan, Climate Activist and host of the Force of Nature podcast

From the Publisher