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Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet by Patrick Kennedy-Williams, Arizona Muse, Megan Kennedy-Woodard

This book offered some really great, concrete practices to help manage climate anxiety. Every chapter offered exercises to help you manage emotions while still staying in the climate fight. In general, I also really enjoyed the way this book talked about and reframed emotions not as negative but as valuable. Honestly, I really needed to hear the section about how doomscrolling is useless and I know a lot of my friends need to hear it too. I didn't give this one five stars because there were a few jargon terms that weren't explained and, even with the sections from clients and activists, the book just did not feel personal. In my opinion, it needed a little more of a human element rather than just psychology. Overall, though, the book was very informative. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.