Leslie Davenport – författare

KIDS' BOOK CHOICE AWARDS finalist!All the Feelings Under the Sun is a timely, thoughtful book that will help kids work through your feelings of anxiety and stress relating to climate change. Kids will get an expert understanding of the science behind climate crisis, plus engage with lots of do-able self-guided activities, journaling prompts, and useful resources. Readers will also hear about other kids around the world who have made a difference that just may inspire them to practice eco-justice and combat global climate injustice themselves, by putting their own eco-values into action.All the Feelings Under the Sun is bound to help kids find just want they need to manage stress, anxiety, and all those big emotions about climate, the environment, and ecosystems, and become better equipped to take an eco-wise approach to life and make their own part of the world a little healthier and happier, too. Kids will discover all the ways that nature is beautiful, powerful, delicate, fierce, mysterious, and awesome, but also learn how rising temperatures are affecting everything-plants, animals, people, and the environment-and what they can do about it.

An all-new What To Do workbook! What To Do When Climate Change Scares You is the first book of its kind to offer age-appropriate coping tools for six to twelve-year-olds experiencing eco-anxiety. This groundbreaking new workbook uses evidence-based activities and practices along with approachable illustrations and language to distill this complicated topic for young minds. In addition to identifying and working with eco-emotions, kids are encouraged to find ways to participate in creating a healthier world without placing the burden on their young shoulders. Feeling empowered to make a difference is an essential coping strategy.The groundbreaking, best-selling What to do Series has helped millions of children with many different kinds of anxiety.

You care deeply about the climate crisis—but that caring can come with emotional weight.If you've ever felt overwhelmed, heartbroken, or helpless in the face of climate change, you're not alone. Transforming Climate Anxiety is a therapeutic workbook designed to help you navigate the emotional toll of a warming world while discovering your capacity to make meaningful change in your life, in your community, and for the planet itself.Drawing from climate psychology, mindfulness, and trauma-informed practices, this book offers simple yet powerful exercises and reflective prompts to help you move from emotional paralysis to purposeful engagement. You'll learn how to soothe your nervous system, clarify your values, and take action that aligns with your strengths and passions.This isn't just a book about coping—it's a guide to healing and advocacy. By integrating inner work with outer action, Transforming Climate Anxiety helps you build emotional resilience while contributing to a more just and sustainable future.

Although the environmental and physical effects of climate change have long been recognised, little attention has been given to the profound negative impact on mental health. Leslie Davenport presents comprehensive theory, strategies and resources for addressing key clinical themes specific to the psychological impact of climate change.She explores the psychological underpinnings that have contributed to the current global crisis, and offers robust therapeutic interventions for dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and other clinical mental health conditions resulting from environmental damage and disaster. She emphasizes the importance of developing resilience and shows how to utilise the many benefits of guided imagery and mindful presence techniques, and carry out interventions that draw on expert research into ecopsychology, wisdom traditions, earth-based indigenous practices and positive psychology. The strategies in this book will cultivate transformative, person-centred ways of being, resulting in regenerative lifestyles that benefit both the individual and the planet.