Surviving Climate Anxiety, Dr. Thomas Doherty
Surviving Climate Anxiety, Dr. Thomas Doherty
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Surviving Climate Anxiety
A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving

Author: Dr. Thomas Doherty

Narrator: Tim Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2025


Synopsis

Learn how to cope with and heal from climate anxiety in this groundbreaking guide by “the most prominent American advocate of ecopsychology” (New York Times).
 
If you ever find yourself doomscrolling news stories about climate change, experience bouts of panic about looming climate-related disasters, or are overcome with sadness thinking about the state of the Earth we are leaving future generations to inherit, you are not alone. With climate disasters mounting and solutions feeling ever more elusive, eco-anxiety is rapidly becoming one of the biggest mental health threats of our time.

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:
  Reclaim your nervous system: manage your thoughts and feelings, and stress about climate change Understand your environmental identity: your history, values, and connection to the natural world Prioritize eco-wellness: Utilize arts, creativity, and spirituality as tools for flourishing Liberate yourself from living as a climate hostage: overcome fear of climate disasters and tend to eco-depression and grief Broaden your horizons of hope: cultivate optimism through stewardship and action  
Packed with practical, research-backed tips and dozens of stories - from the geologist haunted by images of melting glaciers, to the young couple agonizing over whether to bring a child into a world on fire, to a twenty-something wondering what it was like back when people believed in a future - Surviving Climate Anxiety  provides the tools to cope, heal, and flourish, even in these times.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara on September 02, 2025

This was a well done self-help type psychology book that is obviously focused on climate anxiety, but whose principles are more broadly applicable to current event anxiety. I thought it did a nice job of taking what is probably the advice given for most types of anxiety (act on what you can, accept......more

Goodreads review by Nina on October 13, 2025

I don’t often feel like a book has been written for me, but Surviving Climate Anxiety felt exactly that way. As a therapist who works with clients struggling to live meaningfully in an era of environmental collapse—and as a person who has wrestled with her own, at times crippling, climate anxiety—Th......more

Goodreads review by Holly on November 02, 2025

It would seem that those of us who lose sleep at night over climate change are in good company. So much so that practicing psychologist, Dr. Thomas Doherty wrote a book to address it. Father and widower, Doherty focuses on “post doom” rather than heavy depressing statistics. He blends cognitive beha......more

Goodreads review by Anna on October 14, 2025

Surviving Climate Anxiety is an important book that artists, therapists, parents and organizations should have in their emergency toolkits. As a professional musician who is also a therapist, I find the chapter called ART particularly grounding and inspiring. Doherty invites us to preserve (and if w......more

Goodreads review by Stella on October 18, 2025

This book was exactly what I needed. I particularly liked the chapter called Spirit, about the power of tapping into one’s ecospiritual beliefs as a way of buoying ourselves when we’re inundated with climate anxiety. The mindfulness exercise about the bulldozer in the rainforest was a perfect parabl......more