Have you ever felt a knot in your stomach where you see headlines about wildfires, floods,

or record-breaking heat?

That sense of grief and guilt and fear and even doom has a name.

It's called climate anxiety and the good news is that this episode is going to help you move

through those heavy feelings

and discover a more helpful and hopeful, empowered approach. Today I'm joined by the amazing

Sarah Jackette Ray, the author of The Field Guide to Climate Anxiety right here and a leading

voice on how to navigate this very real human

experience. Now together, we're going to unpack why climate anxiety shows up, how it impacts

our mental health, and most importantly, how we can turn it into resilience, connection,

and meaningful action that actually fuels hope. So thank you so much for being here, Sarah.

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure. Okay, for those who have never heard this term, can you first

just clarify what is climate anxiety? Yeah, I think you defined it really well in your intro right there.

One of the things that is characterized

as sort of a mixture of a lot of different emotions that oftentimes because people don't

associate their responses to things like climate change as emotional, they don't necessarily

parse it out in the same way that you would if you were thinking about your mental health

and categories

that were used to. So the guilt and the doom and the sense of anxiety about the future,

the sense of powerlessness that you described so beautifully, I think all of those really

capture what climate anxiety is. The American Psychological Association has defined eco-anxiety as a

sort of perpetual state of environmental doom. And of course, the fabulous Australian philosopher

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