The Eco-Worrier’s Mini Guide to Saving the Planet

The Eco-Worrier’s Mini Guide to Saving the Planet

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 […]

Teaching Peace

Teaching Peace

I have caught myself a few times recently being less than peaceful. Perhaps it is understandable – there is a lot of fear and anxiety, not helped by news and social media. It occurred to me that each of us is a teacher and that we have a choice in every moment about what it is that we are teaching. […]

Acceptance lessons in nature

Acceptance lessons in nature

Taking a nature connection walk this morning, I noticed that I was in that harsh doing mode, where I was like a square wheel on a bumpy road. I wasn’t exactly irritable on the surface, but that restless, self-critical mental “weather” was not far below the surface. I wanted to find that blissful place where I had been before and […]