Surviving Climate Anxiety
A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving

This was a well done self-help type psychology book that is obviously focused on climate anxiety, but whose principles are more broadly applicable to current event anxiety. I thought it did a nice job of taking what is probably the advice given for most types of anxiety (act on what you can, accept......more

I don’t often feel like a book has been written for me, but Surviving Climate Anxiety felt exactly that way. As a therapist who works with clients struggling to live meaningfully in an era of environmental collapse—and as a person who has wrestled with her own, at times crippling, climate anxiety—Th......more

It would seem that those of us who lose sleep at night over climate change are in good company. So much so that practicing psychologist, Dr. Thomas Doherty wrote a book to address it. Father and widower, Doherty focuses on “post doom” rather than heavy depressing statistics. He blends cognitive beha......more

Surviving Climate Anxiety is an important book that artists, therapists, parents and organizations should have in their emergency toolkits. As a professional musician who is also a therapist, I find the chapter called ART particularly grounding and inspiring. Doherty invites us to preserve (and if w......more

This book was exactly what I needed. I particularly liked the chapter called Spirit, about the power of tapping into one’s ecospiritual beliefs as a way of buoying ourselves when we’re inundated with climate anxiety. The mindfulness exercise about the bulldozer in the rainforest was a perfect parabl......more