Mental Health, Emotions and the Climate Crisis with Britt Wray
109: Mental Health, Emotions and the Climate Crisis with Britt Wray
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Mental Health, Emotions and the Climate Crisis with Britt Wray

“We can be a climate activist and not have a squeaky-clean report card.”

Britt Wray, PhD researcher, Stanford fellow and author, joins our host George Warren, to share her research into the mental health impact of the climate crisis as well as the obvious, but often ignored, solutions to the eco-distress that is happening worldwide.

Britt encourages us to create space and embrace the array of emotions that arise when considering the current crisis we are in. She suggests curiosity and self-compassion as doors to meaningful actions, describing this heart-centred, raw “internal activism” as the key to change. Coaches can use this approach with their clients empowering them to participate in creating better outcomes. A challenging, informative but honest conversation.

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Britt Wray

Britt Wray, PhD, is a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of climate change on young people.

Britt is the creator of the Gen Dread newsletter about coping with eco-distress, and author of the book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (Knopf 2022). She holds a PhD in Science Communication from the University of Copenhagen and has worked as a science broadcaster with CBC and the BBC.

Guest Resources:

Website

GenDread Newsletter

Generation Dread - Book

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