Surviving Climate Anxiety

Turn Climate
Anxiety Into Clarity

A Science-Backed Guide to Reclaiming Your Hope, and Taking Meaningful Action in a Changing World

The Essential Guide to

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Coping

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Healing

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Thriving

“You don’t need to solve climate change, or other environmental problems, in order to cope with them. But you can and should do your own personal work to show up and be your best self during the crisis, find ways to adapt to the changes you must endure, and then put your energy toward mitigating the problem.”

Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological impacts of persistent environmental crisis. In it, the world’s leading climate anxiety expert Dr. Thomas  Doherty shares his pioneering, evidence-based methods to help you manage your thoughts and feelings, and stress about climate change, and cultivate optimism through stewardship and action.

Praise for the book

  • Leslie Davenport

    “The book so many of us need right now. Dr. Doherty draws on years of clinical experience to meet readers honestly in the distress of our climate-altered world, then skillfully guides them toward a hope that feels genuine and earned.”

    — Leslie Davenport, author, Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change

  • Panu Pihkala

    “Dr. Thomas Doherty is no stranger to suffering, but he continues to believe in the possibility to flourish, even in dark times.”

    — Panu Pihkala, Ph.D., eco-anxiety researcher

  • “Doherty is a calm and wise companion through the labyrinth of feeling that more us are confronting as the planet changes…. likely to become a mainstay for people encountering climate anxiety.”

    — Anya Kamenetz, author, The Stolen Year

  • Kim Stafford

    “If you are awake to Earth’s dire jeopardy, this book says you are not alone. Doherty takes a hard look at what we face, then offers wise counsel. This beats denial, beats paralysis, beats sleepless nights feeling helpless. In the face of all hard news and dark prophecy, is it possible to keep your head up, your heart steady, and even to thrive? This book says yes, and tells you how.”

    — Kim Stafford, author, As the Sky Begins to Change and former Oregon Poet Laureate

  • Erica Berry

    “An essential field guide for weathering our overheated era. Bringing tremendous empathy and wisdom, Doherty provides readers not just a blueprint for bettering their own mental health, but for better showing up for loved ones and loved places amidst climate catastrophe. I will revisit this book over and over again, not just as a buoy, but as a battle call.”

    — Erica Berry, author, Wolfish

  • Isaias Hernandez

    “A powerful book on the need to embrace brightness in a world that can seem uncertain but filled with solutions around our community.”

    — Isaias Hernandez, environmentalist and storyteller, creator of Queer Brown Vegan

  • Caroline Hickman

    “Full of wise, warm and compassionate stories, inspirational ideas, reflections and practical advice to help us find our way through the climate and ecological crisis.…gives us maps, a compass, stories for the journey. My copy is going to be dog eared!”

    — Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist & climate psychology researcher

  • Jade Sasser

    “From parents worried about their current and future children, to those working directly with climate projections and glacier melt, Doherty offers practical ways to develop a mindset that leads to flexibility and positive growth. The book is timely, engaging, accessible, and very relatable.”

    — Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor, University of California Riverside, author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

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