Self-Help Guides and Toolkits
Empowering yourself with tools for managing eco-anxiety can foster a sense of agency and hope in the face of daunting climate realities. These guides and toolkits provide practical exercises, journaling prompts, and self-reflection techniques to help you build emotional resilience on your own schedule.
Climate Doom to Messy Hope: Climate Healing & Resilience: A Practical Handbook for Climate Educators and Community
This theory-to-practice handbook is grounded in a commitment to fostering deeper understandings and connections to how we can support mindful and proactive navigation of magnifying climate change impacts on individual and community mental health and wellbeing.
Exploring Climate Change and Mental Health
This toolkit is designed for use by educators to empower students to think critically about the structural and socio-political inequities that affect them while centering climate change and mental health through embedded reflective exercises.
Hold This Space
This digital tool helps users process difficult emotions, imagine a better future, and learn more about the impact of collective climate action. Hold this space is designed for young adults and provides a self-guided journey that aims to restore hope, agency, and ambition towards a sustainable future.
Climate Wellbeing Resource Kit by The UBC Climate Hub
This 15-page toolkit guides readers through a multi-step process for understanding their values, emotions, and behaviours related to climate change and the environment.
Coping with Climate Distress Booklet by The Australian Psychological Society
This 12-page overview of strategies for coping with climate distress covers behavioural, relational, cognitive, and emotional coping strategies for managing your feelings about climate change.
The Climate Change Empowerment Handbook by the Australian Psychological Society
This 39-page handbook provides psychological strategies to tackle climate change.
Climate Journal Project
A guided journaling initiative that creates a space for people to cope with eco-anxieties and move past paralysis into action, using reflective prompts to build emotional resilience
Emotional Resilience Toolkit for Climate Work
A handbook designed to provide emotional support, resources, and tools for eco-anxiety, grief, and the range of feelings that accompany climate work
How to Use These Resources
For Yourself: Download or read through guides at your own pace, integrating daily or weekly practices into your routine.
For Others: Recommend or send links to friends, colleagues, and community groups looking for self-directed ways to cope.
Combine Tools: Pair techniques (e.g., journaling) with professional help to broaden your mental health support network.
Suggest a Resources
There are hundreds of resources available to support people facing climate distress. These range from books and podcasts to community groups and counseling programs.
If you know of a unique resource that is widely accessible to people living in Canada, please let us know and we will review it to see if it is appropriate for the list above.