Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth

As the climate changes, we need to become better at receiving and understanding the world around us, to see with fresh eyes and with humility. Kate Schapira’s excellent and insightful LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING BOOTH takes readers on a journey to reassess their place in a changing ecosystem, and transform the way they live within it to meet new realities. Hopeful, sympathetic, and vital.–Jeff Vandermeer, NYT bestselling author of Annihilation
“Brimming with practical strategies to engage your heart, mind, and body in the work of climate justice, this book is a roll-up-your-sleeves resource for finding purpose, community, and even joy in uncertain times. Schapira’s superpower is her rich experience working with activists, mental health experts, and frontline communities, and here, she distills the resulting wisdom in a guidebook that is equal parts balm and ballast for the work ahead.”–Sarah Jaquette Ray, Author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
“Going beyond the lessons themselves, Schapira offers thoughtful questions and engaging practices to help us embody the personal and collective transformation needed in these climate changed times.”–LaUra Schmidt, Founder of Good Grief Network and author of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet
“This is a grounded, no BS, guide for how to move through climate anxiety and grief into action. Necessary, clear-eyed, and compassion-filled, it helped me become a fuller member of my many communities.”–Elizabeth Rush, Author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Kate Schapira is a senior lecturer at Brown University where she teaches nonfiction writing, with a focus on narrative, diverse formal strategies, and environmental and ecological storytelling. She’s the author of Time to Be Something Other Than Human and six collections of poetry. She engages with the public about climate change and mental health through the Climate Anxiety Counseling project. Kate lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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