I recently wrote about anxiety and how it can be your superpower. This is especially clear when it comes to eco-anxiety. I have found it really easy to feel paralysed by a whole swathe of difficult feelings, from anxiety to grief, guilt to anger. At times I have felt despair. I have also experienced a sense of frantic urgency and […]
For as long as I can remember, anxiety has been a feature of my life. It has been an almost constant companion on my journey and not always a welcome one. In fact, I spent many years wrestling with it, feeling ashamed of it and weakened by it. Here’s what I have learned. Fighting anxiety makes the problem worse When […]
For my entire life up to my mid-forties, I was cheese devotee – I am not ashamed to admit it. So how and why did I become vegan? For me, the overwhelming reason to stop eating meat and dairy was a small matter of wanting to save the planet – no pressure there then! Increasingly, the evidence is pointing towards […]
Many of us watched the David Attenborough programme “Extinction: The Facts” and felt huge sadness and alarm as well as a deep desire to do something. So, what is the problem and what can we do as individuals to help? According to the WWF Living Nature Report 2020, we have lost an average of 68% of our wildlife populations. Biodiversity […]