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How Does the Earth Wish to Move Through Me?

Meeting the Reality of the Climate

What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
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The Quivering Heart

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Lou and Kristin explore the integration of Buddhist practice with climate action through the lens of the “quivering heart” — the capacity to hold climate grief, fear, and uncertainty with tenderness and courage.
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Is the Climate Movement Finally Growing Up?

Replacing the “Behavior Change” Playbook

For decades, climate and environmental advocates have tried to close the gap between what people know and what they do. Frustrated, our answer has been “more”: more information, more urgency, more compelling imagery. But what if the problem is our misunderstanding of the problem?
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Feeling Climate Grief?

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone

Situated somewhere between profession and spiritual practice, eco-chaplaincy is an emerging field rooted in contemplative traditions that is responding to the suffering arising from ecological crises. The handful of eco-chaplaincy programs, still small, signal a shift in how we understand care.
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The Practice of Staying With

The Invitation of Our Times

What might become apparent when we neither cling to nor run from? If we accompany the experience, whether painful and pleasant, where might it lead us?
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Remembering Joanna Macy

Kritee Kanko pays homage to the woman who taught her that perhaps grief and rage aren’t to be overcome, but revered as sacred deities.
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Allegiance to Life

Staying Steady Through the Mess We’re In

We open to the pain and devastation of our world, and then what? Where might we go from there? Joanna Macy shares on going forth.
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How Do I Balance Acceptance with Passion?

Response from a Climate Therapist

“Is it possible to care this much and survive working in environmental spaces?” Leslie Davenport offers an experienced perspective on crafting the balance between work and well-being.
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Climate Grief, Communal Power

We all have an inner labyrinth of grief and rage. How to find our way through? Kritee Kanko offers the wisdom of togetherness.
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I’m Dreading Another ‘Horror Summer’

Response from a Climate Therapist

How do we relate to grief that is not yet here? A climate therapist responds to the suffering of anticipated distress.
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