Practices of gratitude are mentioned often in the world of mental health, and for good reason. Intentionally identifying something you’re thankful for can encourage both slowing down in the midst of our frantically busy days and a shift in attention in helpful ways.

It sneaks up so fast: the mean internal voices. The scared thoughts. The impatient, insecure feelings. They are so good at hiding, in fact, that we often don’t realize they’re there until there is a moment when one slips out verbally on the tongue.

Many people living in the Western world have been shaped by predominantly individualistic values that view a person and their problems in isolation from other factors.

Climate anxiety, eco-anxiety and eco-grief are all phrases that help capture distressing emotions that more and more people report experiencing in response to threats to our ecology, particularly the reality of a changing climate.