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

by Anouchka Grose Narrated by Brigid Lohrey

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.

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus

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

Booklist

"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."

School Library Journal

"[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."

From the Publisher

"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

Kirkus Reviews

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)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940190822113
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	03/12/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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