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Oct 2021
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Climate Anxiety Is Real. Here's How To A...

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The climate crisis is here, and if you feel climate anxiety, that's a totally normal response. It's easy to feel overwhelmed or numb when you start thinking about the bigger picture, but it's important to let yourself feel all those emotions, says ecotherapist Phoenix Smith.

In this episode, Smith talks about tools to acknowledge and use these feelings for the decades to come.

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