How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety: An Empowering Guide for Young People

by Anouchka Grose, Lauriane Bohémier (Illustrator)

Overview

How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety is a timely book for teens that explores the relationship between mental health and the climate crisis . . . and supplies tools to help!
 
How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide.
 
Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety. Find out how to validate your emotions and build your resilience. Discover the comfort that can be found in your community.
 
Understand and face your eco-anxiety with ten accessible steps. A “tool kit” at the end of each step shows you ways to build on that knowledge and take action. You’ll finish this book feeling equipped with solutions and practical advice to help you be kinder to the planet . . . and yourself.
 
“An essential mental-health handbook for the next generation.” —Vanessa Nakate, climate activist
 
“An invaluable resource.” —Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health activist
 
Featuring Color Illustrations by Lauriane Bohémier

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798887071787
Publisher:	Magic Cat
Publication date:	03/12/2024
Series:	10 Steps to Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	12 - 16 Years

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 is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she lectures, and she has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and Beyond Belief. Lauriane Bohémier is an artist and graphic designer from Quebec, Canada. Inspired by nature, Bohémier creates art that feels good for the soul. Her art expresses the beauty of self, the gifts of nature, and the pleasure in taking care of ourselves and others. She believes that when we follow our life’s purpose, all will flow.

Editorial Reviews

"An empowering guide to living with the stress of the climate change crisis."

Kirkus

"She focuses less on the usual tips to save the planet (although some eco-friendly activities are mentioned), emphasizing instead ways to nurture young people’s positive mental health...An insightful and helpful guide."

Booklist

"[B]eautiful art complementing the important message...extremely validating for all emotions as there is an open discussion regarding resilience as well as self-care and balancing anxiety with real suggestions and ­solutions. This is an all-around, great inclusive book for mental health in general, with a wonderful focus on the environment and sustainability."

School Library Journal

"An empowering guide to living with the stress of the climate change crisis."—Kirkus

"She focuses less on the usual tips to save the planet (although some eco-friendly activities are mentioned), emphasizing instead ways to nurture young people’s positive mental health...An insightful and helpful guide."—Booklist

"[B]eautiful art complementing the important message...extremely validating for all emotions as there is an open discussion regarding resilience as well as self-care and balancing anxiety with real suggestions and solutions. This is an all-around, great inclusive book for mental health in general, with a wonderful focus on the environment and sustainability."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2024-02-03
A survey of practical strategies for young people to use to alleviate anxiety related to the effects of a warming planet.

As people experience the impact of our climate emergency, psychoanalyst Grose has seen more clients who exhibit stress over climate change. Acknowledging that eco-anxiety is “a reasonable response to a real problem,” she presents 10 steps, each with an accompanying toolkit, to support teens in managing their feelings, building resiliency, taking empowering action, and more. The book opens by identifying how these challenging feelings might show up, both mentally and physically. Throughout, Grose balances the need to be genuinely concerned about climate change with learning how to take care of oneself so the concern doesn’t harm one’s well-being. She acknowledges that people will need different things, especially when it comes to self-care, and offers a variety of concrete suggestions for common challenges, including striking the right balance with the amount and kind of information we consume and finding a community of like-minded people who can offer support. The informal font, pastel-colored pages, and whimsical illustrations of flowers, rainbows, and toadstools give the work a journal-like feel and help lighten the mood. The human figures scattered throughout are diverse in skin tone.

An empowering guide to living with the stress of the climate change crisis. (author’s note, glossary, resources) (Nonfiction. 12-16)

Kirkus Reviews