Climate Courage
Hosted by clinical psychologist Emily Toner, Climate Courage is a 10-episode audio journey for anyone navigating emotional fatigue, eco-anxiety, or burnout in the face of the environmental crisis. Whether you're a frontline climate professional, an activist, or an everyday person who cares deeply about our collective future, this podcast offers grounded psychological tools, personal and science-based insights and a safe space to process challenging thoughts and emotions. Each episode blends insights from wellbeing science, behavioural pyschology, mindfulness, and systems thinking to help you process grief, regulate your nervous system, and rediscover agency and courage.
Climate Courage
Ep 4. How to Be with Climate Grief
Episode 4: Knowing Grief — How to Sit with Climate Grief
In this episode of Climate Courage, we gently explore the emotional landscape of climate grief — a incredibly reasonable response to the experience of ecological loss, environmental destruction, and an uncertain future.
Join clinical psychologist Emily Toner as she guides you through a deeper understanding of environmental grief and offers tools to help you process pain, access resilience, and connect back to nature with presence and purpose.
You’ll learn:
- Why grief is a necessary emotional response to the climate emergency
- Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor’s 90-Second Rule for emotional processing
- A guided nature-based meditation for processing grief
- How mindfulness and self-compassion create space for courageous action
Emotional flexibility is not just a nice-to-have — it's a key climate resilience skill. By learning how to feel deeply without getting stuck, we unlock the energy needed to respond to this crisis wisely.
Resources & Links
→ For more support, workshops and resources visit: emilytoner.com
→ Support the creation of this work: ko-fi.com/climatecourage
Missed the beginning? Start from Episode 1: “Climate Courage — Seeing the Human Side of the Crisis”