Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt
LaUra Schmidt visits Crazy Town to discuss her work with the Good Grief Network and her book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet. Along the way, she shares wisdom and insights on courage, taking meaningful action, terror management theory, and practices for processing the strong emotions that accompany facing climate change and other aspects of the polycrisis.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- LaUra's book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet
- The Good Grief Network's 10 Step Program
- LaUra mentioned Bayo Akomolafe and his work on "questioning our questions."
- Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects
- Video of Dr. Andrew Weil's 4-7-8 breathing technique
- David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs
- Crazy Town episode 34, "Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or... the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom"
- Fiftieth anniversary book review in the New York Times: Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
- Ayisha Siddiqa's poem "On Another Panel about Climate, They Ask Me to Sell the Future and All I've Got Is a Love Poem"
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LaUra Schmidt visits Crazy Town to discuss her work with the Good Grief Network and her book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet. Along the way, she shares wisdom and insights on courage, taking meaningful action, terror management theory, and practices for processing the strong emotions that accompany facing climate change and other aspects of the polycrisis.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- LaUra's book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet
- The Good Grief Network's 10 Step Program
- LaUra mentioned Bayo Akomolafe and his work on "questioning our questions."
- Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects
- Video of Dr. Andrew Weil's 4-7-8 breathing technique
- David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs
- Crazy Town episode 34, "Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or... the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom"
- Fiftieth anniversary book review in the New York Times: Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death
- Ayisha Siddiqa's poem "On Another Panel about Climate, They Ask Me to Sell the Future and All I've Got Is a Love Poem"
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