Turn Climate
Anxiety Into Clarity
A Science-Backed Guide to Reclaiming Your Hope, and Taking Meaningful Action in a Changing World
From Dr. Thomas Doherty, “the most prominent American advocate of ecopsychology”
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The Essential Guide to
Coping
Healing
Thriving
“You don’t need to solve climate change, or other environmental problems, in order to cope with them. But you can and should do your own personal work to show up and be your best self during the crisis, find ways to adapt to the changes you must endure, and then put your energy toward mitigating the problem.”
Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological impacts of persistent environmental crisis. In it, the world’s leading climate anxiety expert Dr. Thomas Doherty shares his pioneering, evidence-based methods to help you manage your thoughts and feelings, and stress about climate change, and cultivate optimism through stewardship and action.
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Packed with practical, research-backed tips and dozens of stories, Surviving Climate Anxiety provides the tools to cope, heal, and flourish, even in these times.
Praise for the Book
“Doherty is a calm and wise companion through the labyrinth of feeling that more us are confronting as the planet changes…. likely to become a mainstay for people encountering climate anxiety.”
Anya Kamenetz, author, The Stolen Year
“Climate change will test us all in ways we’re only beginning to understand–and this book is a valuable companion for getting your head and heart in a place that will let you take on the challenge.”
Bill McKibben, author Here Comes the Sun
“Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis.…gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey…
Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist & climate psychology researcher
“Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis.…gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey. My copy is going to be dog eared!”
Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist & climate psychology researcher
“An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up…
Erica Berry, author, Wolfish
“An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up for loved ones and loved places amidst climate catastrophe. I will revisit this book over and over again, not just as a buoy, but as a battle call.”
Erica Berry, author, Wolfish
“A powerful book on the need to embrace brightness in a world that can seem uncertain but filled with solutions around our community.”
Isaias Hernandez, environmentalist and storyteller, creator of Queer Brown Vegan
“Doherty is a calm and wise companion through the labyrinth of feeling that more us are confronting as the planet changes…. likely to become a mainstay for people encountering climate anxiety.”
Anya Kamenetz, author, The Stolen Year
“Climate change will test us all in ways we’re only beginning to understand–and this book is a valuable companion for getting your head and heart in a place that will let you take on the challenge.”
Bill McKibben, author Here Comes the Sun
“Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis.…gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey…
Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist & climate psychology researcher
“Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis.…gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey. My copy is going to be dog eared!”
Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist & climate psychology researcher
“An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up…
Erica Berry, author, Wolfish
“An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up for loved ones and loved places amidst climate catastrophe. I will revisit this book over and over again, not just as a buoy, but as a battle call.”
Erica Berry, author, Wolfish
“A powerful book on the need to embrace brightness in a world that can seem uncertain but filled with solutions around our community.”
Isaias Hernandez, environmentalist and storyteller, creator of Queer Brown Vegan
“From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth…
Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside, author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
“From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth. The book is timely, engaging, accessible, and very relatable.”
Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside, author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
“If you are awake to Earth’s dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless…
Kim Stafford, author, As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon Poet Laureate
“If you are awake to Earth’s dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless. In the face of all hard news and dark prophecy, is it possible to keep your head up, your heart steady, and even to thrive? This book says yes, and tells you how.”
Kim Stafford, author, As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon Poet Laureate
“The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that…
Leslie Davenport, author, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change
“The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that feels genuine and earned.”
Leslie Davenport, author, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change
“Dr. Thomas Doherty is no stranger to suffering, but he continues to believe in the possibility to flourish, even in dark times.”
Panu Pihkala, Ph.D., eco-anxiety researcher
“From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth…
Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside, author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
“From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth. The book is timely, engaging, accessible, and very relatable.”
Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside, author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
“If you are awake to Earth’s dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless…
Kim Stafford, author, As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon Poet Laureate
“If you are awake to Earth’s dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless. In the face of all hard news and dark prophecy, is it possible to keep your head up, your heart steady, and even to thrive? This book says yes, and tells you how.”
Kim Stafford, author, As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon Poet Laureate
“The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that…
Leslie Davenport, author, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change
“The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that feels genuine and earned.”
Leslie Davenport, author, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change
“Dr. Thomas Doherty is no stranger to suffering, but he continues to believe in the possibility to flourish, even in dark times.”
Panu Pihkala, Ph.D., eco-anxiety researcher
Thomas Doherty’s innovative psychology work on nature and climate change has been featured in the NY Times, the Washington Post , BBC Radio and Outside.
About the Author
Dr. Thomas Doherty is an award-winning clinical psychologist, internationally recognized for his research on the psychological impacts of climate change.
His practice Sustainable Self marries traditional therapeutic approaches with findings about sustainability, nature, and well-being under an ecopsychology framework, and he has trained and supported mental health professionals from around the world addressing eco-anxiety.
Doherty is a regular guest speaker at conferences and panels worldwide, and has conducted workshops and trainings for organizations such as the US National Park Service, the California Department of Health, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and the Aspen Ideas Festival. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Doherty is the creator of the podcast “Climate Change and Happiness”, which he cohosts with researcher Panu Pihkala. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon USA.
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