Raising kids is hard enough. How do we do it now when existential dread is such a major part of youth experience? And how do we keep ourselves mentally healthy enough to be good at both our professional climate work and parenting?
Today's show is with Ariella Cook-Shonkoff, psychotherapist and author of the new book, Raising Anti-Doomers: How to Bring Up Resilient Kids Through Climate Change and Tumultuous Times.
She answers a bunch of questions I have about how much I should actually be staring into the abyss (but not whether it also stares back into me, weird I know...), agency, how to think about individual vs. collective safety, and how to bring children into a world where the grownups are either asking these enormous questions or pretending we don't need to.
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Ariella Cook-Shonkoff's website
Ariella's Psychology Today blog, "The Anti-Doomer Mindset
Cultivating Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty"
Climate Action Venn Diagrams from Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson