The AC Podcast

109: Mental Health, Emotions and the Climate Crisis

In this Episode

In this podcast episode, 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 suggests curiosity and self-compassion as doors to meaningful actions in a heart-centred, raw way. A challenging, informative but honest conversation.

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You Will Learn

• How to create space and embrace the array of emotions that arise when considering the current crisis we are in
• Why 'internal activism' is the key to change
• How to use this approach with clients to empower them to participate in creating better outcomes

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Speaker Bio

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. She 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.

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