Authors Prof Julia S 🌍🌹🌱 #ClimateAction #TrumpOut
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I'm in therapy, which I've already overshared, and it's great. I recommend it highly. Today I want to share an insight that has helped me so much, and maybe it can help you too?
I used to feel apart from things, alienated. I couldn't enjoy beauty or family. I live in a staggeringly beautiful place, but I couldn't enjoy the view or lake or mountains, because I know climate change is destroying glaciers & ecosystems. 2/
https://t.co/rvq2eRiXgC
Every day I had a hard time with my kid, putting on a brave face to get him to school and back, knowing every moment that I am somehow not doing enough to preserve his future. That he & his friends are being harmed, every day more, by our industrial and economic systems. 3/
What my therapist helped me understand is that I am right to have those feelings - it would be insane not to, given what I know about the state & direction of the world. But she also helped me understand that I was harming myself by putting myself apart from & above my world. 4/
In my previous worldview, I was apart from, in opposition to, my environment and my society. I saw myself as a lonely witness of devastation, howling helplessly and with little effect to try to change a disastrous trajectory, resentful of the ignorance & inaction of others. 5/
Hi my dears, some personal info:
— Prof Julia S \U0001f30d\U0001f339\U0001f331 #ClimateAction #TrumpOut (@JKSteinberger) September 7, 2020
I wish I had tried to get therapy much, much sooner.
That's it. That's the tweet.
It feels self-indulgent even to write it, but that's part of the problem, isn't it? We're trained to not seek help until breaking point. 1/
I used to feel apart from things, alienated. I couldn't enjoy beauty or family. I live in a staggeringly beautiful place, but I couldn't enjoy the view or lake or mountains, because I know climate change is destroying glaciers & ecosystems. 2/
https://t.co/rvq2eRiXgC
Just as I was fearing watching the white summit, the "neiges \xe9ternelles", of Mont Blanc melt from the baking plain of Geneva in the #HEATWAVE2019 , I l learn it's above freezing at 5000 meters. 200 meters above the summit of Mont Blanc, the great roof of Europe, our tallest Alp. https://t.co/isGqbqjYaw
— Prof Julia S \U0001f30d\U0001f339\U0001f331 #ClimateAction #TrumpOut (@JKSteinberger) July 24, 2019
Every day I had a hard time with my kid, putting on a brave face to get him to school and back, knowing every moment that I am somehow not doing enough to preserve his future. That he & his friends are being harmed, every day more, by our industrial and economic systems. 3/
What my therapist helped me understand is that I am right to have those feelings - it would be insane not to, given what I know about the state & direction of the world. But she also helped me understand that I was harming myself by putting myself apart from & above my world. 4/
In my previous worldview, I was apart from, in opposition to, my environment and my society. I saw myself as a lonely witness of devastation, howling helplessly and with little effect to try to change a disastrous trajectory, resentful of the ignorance & inaction of others. 5/