Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Coun..., Kate Schapira
Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Coun..., Kate Schapira
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Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth
How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World

Author: Kate Schapira

Narrator: Helen Laser

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

Climate anxiety is real—and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth. Summer after summer is the hottest on record. People’s homes are flooding, burning, blowing away. We live with the loss, pain, and grief of what’s happened, and anxiety for what might happen next, as the systems in which we live are increasingly strained. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth addresses our collective concerns with empathy, grace, and practical strategies to help us all envision a viable future. By moving through your personal and general climate anxiety, frustration, helplessness and grief, you can move toward a sense of shared purpose and community care. You’ll find actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth meets you where you are, not sugarcoating the realities of this growing crisis, but offering practical strategies for meeting a climate-changed present and future with emotional honesty and communal support.

In 2014, when Kate Schapira first set up a Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, far fewer people were talking about climate change and its attendant anxiety, leaving those who couldn’t ignore climate change and the forces that cause it feeling frantic and alone.  Seeking a way to reach out and connect, Schapira set up a Peanuts-style "The Doctor Is In" booth to talk about climate change with her community. Ten years and over 1200 conversations later, Schapira channels all she’s learned into an accessible, understandable, and aware guide for processing climate anxiety and connecting with others to carry out real change in your life and in your community.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 16, 2023

At multiple times and multiple places around Providence, Kate Schapira sat behind a sign that read "Climate Anxiety Counseling 5 cents: The Doctor Is In." She found this to be an excellent way to invite conversations with strangers about climate change and their fears or concerns, and time and again......more

Goodreads review by Reading on April 19, 2024

Full review at: [URL not allowed] I loved this one, and found it an uplifting and informative read! It’s not a science-heavy book, but more of a self-help book about ways we can come together as communities – or across different communities – to deal with the various crises tha......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on January 31, 2024

Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the ARC! as someone with a generalized anxiety disorder, and has chatted with my therapist many many times about my own climate change anxiety, as soon as I saw this title on netgalley I knew I had to read it. Schapira just gets it-- the feelings of hopel......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 07, 2024

A fascinating, cross-sectional window on the way people feel about climate change and how that has changed over time, alongside an abundance of ideas for how to change those feelings for the better through direct action as well as through emotional processing. As a white guy unaccustomed to interrog......more