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Resources for your heart and mind
ESSAYS, POEMS, AND MORE…
- 5 things that can help alleviate eco-anxiety: By Dekila Chungyalpa for Psychology Today 
- A map to the next world: A poem by Joy Harjo 
- Breathing with the forest: An Immersive video experience with Emergence Magazine 
- EcoPsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health from Yale 360 
- Envision the future of your community: David Suzuki Foundation 
- I am blessed: A song to sing out loud by Desirée Dawson 
- We were made for these times: An Essay by Clarissa Pinkola Estes 
CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
- Befriending Eco-Anxiety; Mindful Practices for Moving Through Grief, Loss, and Change by Kaira Jewel 
- Dadirri; A Deep Listening video with Auntie Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr 
- On the other side of anger: A meditation led by Dekila Chungyalpa for the RITA Summit 
- On the other side of despair: A contempation led by Rev. Bobbi Patterson for the RITA Summit 
- On the other side of grief: A somatic practice led by Prentiss Hemphill for the RITA Summit 
- Tonglen with the Earth: A meditation led by Dekila for the Healthy Minds app 
Loka’s recommendations
Resources on Ecological Emotions
- Active Hope; How to Face the Mess We Are In - Book by Joanna Macy 
- “Building Your Resilience” Article from the American Psychological Association 
- “From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing” - Academic article by S. Stanley, T. Hogg, Z. Leviston and I Walker 
- Generation Dread; Finding Purpose in An Age of Climate Anxiety - Book by Britt Wray 
- “How the Climate Crisis is Impacting Black People” - Article by Antjuan Seawright 
- How to Live in a Chaotic Climate - Book by Laura Schmidt 
- People of Color Experience Climate Grief More Deeply - Article by Nylah Burton 
- “Who Gets to Have Eco-Anxiety?” - Article by Joseph Weiss 
Resources on Deep Thinking, Deep Resilience
- A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene, An open access conceptual framework paper by the Loka Initiative 
- As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, A book by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 
- bell hooks on Interlocking Systems of Domination: A short video interview 
- Capitalism Is “A Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality: Video interview with Arundhati Roy 
- Ecofeminism: A book by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva 
- Relational Systems Thinking: An article by Melanie Goodchild 
- The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: An essay by Audre Lorde 
- White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization: An article by Kyle Powys Whyte 
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