"Since changing the climate is the biggest thing humans have ever done, with the gravest implications for the future, it stands to reason that it produces all kinds of emotions—conscious and unconscious—in those who apprehend it. This fine book helps grapple with those feelings, in thoughtful and empowering ways." - Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization"At a moment when many feel overwhelmed or paralyzed, this book offers a welcome path that honors our grief while steadily guiding us back into agency, connection, and meaningful action." - Christiana Figueres, Head of the UN Climate Change Convention 2010–2016"This book is rich with practical wisdom for all climate feelers, thinkers, and doers. Leslie Davenport believes in us. Transforming Climate Anxiety will leave you saying, "I do too." - Katharine K. Wilkinson, DPhil, author of Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home; coeditor of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis"Leslie Davenport is a guiding light for me and many others who are struggling to process the climate crisis and to parent through it. This book is another wise and welcome offering that will be an invaluable resource for individuals and communities." - Anya Kamenetz, author, The Golden Hour newsletter and Falling in Love With the World Again: Finding Your Way When Everything Feels Broken"In Transforming Climate Anxiety, Leslie Davenport helps us stay with the emotional weight of the climate crisis without turning away. Grounded in climate psychology, this workbook brings together clear insights and practical exercises to help readers work through difficult emotions while staying connected to purpose, community, and action. This is an important book for anyone trying to remain engaged with the climate crisis, even when the realities feel overwhelming." - Imogen R. Herrick, PhD, Assistant Professor of Stem Education, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States"With grace, elegance, and expansive compassion, Leslie Davenport takes us on a very compelling journey. Through accessible and gentle exercises, she helps us move from very personal internal distress to meaning, expression, and external collective action on behalf of our community, future generations, and the wider planetary ecosystem we call home. For anyone who loves living on planet Earth, the journey offered in this workbook is subtle, accumulative, and unmistakably powerful—expanding step-by-step our capacity to stay in the uncertain with curiosity, connection, and care." - Rebecca B. Weston, JD, LCSW, Co-Executive Director, Climate Psychology Alliance of North America"Leslie Davenport's workbook pulls no punches in confronting the fossil fuel industry and its ongoing role in driving the climate crisis. With clarity and urgency, she lays bare the scale of environmental damage and the systemic forces that have allowed it to persist. Davenport argues that the industry's complicity is no longer debatable—it is documented, measurable, and deeply entrenched. Yet, rather than leaving readers in despair, she challenges us to reckon with this reality and consider what accountability, transformation, and collective action must look like in the face of an escalating global emergency." - Barbara Easterlin, PhD, President of Executive Committee, Climate Psychology Alliance of North America"Transforming Climate Anxiety: A book that is grounded in care, resilience, and a world where we can nourish our relationships with ourselves." - Isaias Hernandez, environmentalist, educator, QueerBrownVegan"This well-researched and informative book, based on the recognition that climate change is a problem not only for environmental health but also for mental health, gives practical exercises to help people who are feeling worried and anxious to understand and cope with their responses. Davenport makes the case that both personal and ecological resilience will benefit when we acknowledge and strengthen connections to wider social and ecological networks." - Susan Clayton, PhD, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, Psychology Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, United States"At once practical and deeply resonant, this workbook is a timely and much-needed contribution that will be of benefit to anyone feeling the pain of climate anxiety and grief. As we navigate our climate emotions during these challenging times, we are fortunate to have Davenport's knowledgeable and wise presence guiding us along the pathway, through our feelings and toward the connection and meaning at the heart of resilience." - Laura Carter Robinson, PsyD, eco- and clinical psychologist; American Psychological Association's Climate Change Psychology Advisory Group"Climate change evokes emotions in all of us, albeit in different forms. Leslie Davenport has been a forerunner in developing constructive methods for engaging with climate emotions, and this book offers people both succinct information and easy-to-use practices—warmly recommended!" - Panu Pihkala, PhD, leading interdisciplinary scholar of eco-emotions; Adjunct Professor, Theology and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science HELSUS, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland"This book is for everyone who cares deeply about climate change and needs practical skills to resist overwhelm and burnout. It shows you how to do the internal emotional work, connect it to the external community work, and help build a better world. I promise, you will come back to it over and over again." - Jade S. Sasser, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States; author, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future"Leslie Davenport's book is a must-read for anyone experiencing the emotional toll of climate change. Through thoughtful activities and teachings, this is a straightforward guide to taking meaningful action that also fosters essential self-care. Action and well-being are intertwined, and Leslie's accessible and impactful book helps build these essential skills." - Sarah Newman, Founder and Executive Director, Climate Mental Health Network"Climate psychology is genuinely complex work. It asks us to hold difficult emotions alongside the need to stay engaged, and keep our hearts and minds open. Leslie Davenport navigates that terrain with steadiness and skill. She has been one of the most trusted voices in the emerging field of climate psychology, and this book makes plain why. Reading this author's work feels like sitting with a compassionate guide, drawing on her clinical wisdom and warm intelligence. The result is a grounded, practical resource that so many of us in this field have been needing. It is an important contribution, and it confirms Leslie's place as one of climate psychology's essential voices." - Renée Lertzman, PhD, author of Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement"Put this book on your bookshelf; it is one of the good books about psychology in the face of the climate crisis, climate anxiety, and how to navigate these challenging times. Practical, readable, relatable, thoughtful, and kind, it gives us a deeper understanding about how to find a way through these times with heart and soul. Well worth a read; it will be a good companion to go back to again and again." - Caroline Hickman, climate aware psychotherapist and researcher
