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
Full Product Details
Author: Anouchka Grose ,
Lauriane Bohémier
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Imprint: Harry N. Abrams
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781419771361
ISBN 10: 1419771361
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 16 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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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""
"""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"
Author Information
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.
