Snowy’s Favorite Books:
On mental health:
It's Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
Your Brain on Nature by Eva M. Selhub, MD and Alan C. Logan, ND
In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté, MD
On nature:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature by M. Amos Clifford
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs by Tristan Gooley
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Tracking & The Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes
Rewilding by Micah Mortali
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
On mindfulness:
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu
On ecological grief, climate anxiety, and climate change:
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by Cunsolo and Landman
Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence by Joshua Trey Barnett
Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Dear Earth: Love, Grief, and Activism by Satya Robyn
One Earth: People of Color Protecting our Planet by Anuradha Rao
To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Water Slayers by Winona LaDuke
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate
Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, And Radical Ethics by Donna M. Orange
Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist
Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing by Bob Doppelt
Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change: A Clinician's Guide by Leslie Davenport
Tom Brown’s Guide to Healing the Earth by Tom Brown Jr.
How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet by Klein and Stefoff
Emotions Education 101
with Heather Sanford, LCSW, MPA & Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW
Learn to recognize and allow your emotions to move through you, taking you to a place of your authentic Self. Connect with others and yourself more genuinely! This process also helps to decrease anxiety and depression.
Snowy’s Favorite Resources:
On the intersection of mental health and climate change:
Climate Psychology Alliance- North America
ecoAmerica
The collaboration of APA, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica:
Mental Health and Our Changing Climate, 2021 Report
Climate Cafés
A Climate Café® is an open, inclusive space for people to get together to talk and act on climate change.
Yale Climate Curriculum for Educators
We have developed materials for teachers who are interested in using our resources in their classrooms, such as the Yale Climate Opinion Maps and Yale Climate Connections. These materials were developed based on recommendations from educators across the United States. They aim to immerse students in climate change issues in an accessible, digestible, and interactive way.
On finding a BIPOC therapist:
Inclusive Therapists website
REBUILD
REBUILD connects BIPOC formerly incarcerated individuals to therapists of color. Therapist connectors (including formerly incarcerated people and people who have lived experiences with mental health challenges) assist in matching formerly incarcerated and injustice-involved individuals with therapists of color. This assistance includes finding and vetting therapists, setting up appointments, facilitating the payment process, and paying for therapy for some.
Find Me a Therapist
Find Me a Therapist connects people to culturally competent mental health professionals.
BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Other Marginalized Communities and the Outdoors:
GirlTrek: a movement and community of Black women walking towards healing and liberation
LGBT Outdoors: “Connecting the LGBTQ+ community to the outdoors and its members to one another is at the heart of what we do. It is our mission to strengthen connections between those in our community all while fostering a love for the outdoors.”
Unlikely Hikers: Unlikely Hikers is a diverse, anti-racist, body-liberating outdoor community featuring the underrepresented outdoorsperson.
4 The Love Run Project: The Love Run Project is a global movement promoting the representation of BIPOC and disabled runners in trail running by urging race organizers to make trail running accessible for all.
Making Green Spaces in Your Community:
The Neighborhood Nature Project (via Nature Sacred)
On the intersection of mental health and social justice:
Future Crunch- Reporting stories of progress and change.
Other media & info:
Articles
Climate Change, Environmental Activism, and Disability by Novack and Frias (2022)
Why Queer Liberation is an Environmental Justice Issue by Lisa Pradhan (2021)
Queering Outdoor Spaces Heals People and the Earth by Eleanor Greene
Black Lives Matter: The Link Between Climate Change and Racial Justice by Thomas and Haynes (2020)
Is It Time to Abandon the Term “Climate Anxiety”? by Isobel Whitcomb (2021)
What is ‘Climate Distress’ and What Can Therapists Do About It? by Daniel Rosenbaum (2021)
You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction by David Marchese and Robin Wall Kimmerer (2023)
Our Attention Spans are Being Stolen by Daphne Chouliaraki Milner and Johann Hari (2023)
Therapists Trade the Couch for the Great Outdoors by Christina Caron in the New York Times (2023)
Podcasts