With the effects of climate change becoming an everyday reality and the rise of climate anxiety, we’ve selected excerpts and exercises from some of our recent and upcoming books by environmental and mental health experts to inspire hope, courage, and conscious action.

• A Meditation for Ecoanxiety and Despair from A Future We Can Love by Susan Bauer Wu

• A Practice to Center Yourself in All that You Love from How to Live in a Chaotic Climate by LaUra Schmidt, Aimee Lewis Reau, and Chelsie Rivera

• A Grounding Exercise for Rooting in Self and Earth from Returning the Self to Nature by Jeanine McCanty

• And How a Little Poem from Ancient China Could Save the Planet from Wild Mind, Wild Earth by David Hinton