Check out these websites, articles, and videos.
The Good Grief Network
A 10-Step approach to building personal resilience and strengthening community in the face of daunting systemic predicaments.
Holly Truhlar, Grief Practitioner
Read Holly’s provocative essays, “The Environmental Movement Has Failed” and “Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself”
Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil
Read Dahr’s essay “Dancing with Grief”. Then check out Dahr and Barbara’s Truthout series “How Then Shall We Live?”.
Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects
Watch Joanna’s video “Befriending Our Despair”. Then check out “The Work that Reconnects”, especially “Honoring Our Pain for the World”.
Jim Bendell’s Deep Adaptation
Read Jem’s Deep Adaptation paper and watch the video. Also check out his page “Emotional Support in the Face of Climate Tragedy.”
Another End of the World is Possible
Exploring the intersection of climate change and capitalism, hope and despair, death and denial, hubris and hero myths, love and limitations, popular culture and storytelling.
Trebbe Johnson’s Radical Joy for Hard Times
Helping people deeply connect with natural places that have been wounded by human action.
Further Reading
“Dancing with Grief” by Dahr Jamail
“It is Right to Take Time to Grieve” by Anthony Rella
“I Felt Despair About Climate Change—Until a Brush With Death Changed My Mind” by Alison Spodek Keimotitz
“Grieving could offer a pathway out of a destructive economic system” by Jo Confino
“A deep potential in collapse? On loss and the transformation of consciousness” by Espen Malling
“The Environmental Movement Has Failed [Us]” by Holly Truhlar
“Mary Oliver for Corona Times” by Adrie Suzanne Kusserow
Watch/Listen
You Aren’t Alone In Grieving The Climate Crisis (Science Friday, NPR)
“Befriending Our Despair” by Joanna Macy
“Deep Adaptation” by Jem Bendell
National Suicide Hotline
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call 1-800-273-8255.
Climate Grief Groups 