Why environmentalists need to protect their mental health
Leonardo Santamaria for NPR
Getting involved in activism or environmental groups can help relieve feelings of helplessness in our climate crisis world. But, paradoxically, advocacy also brings the risk of more stress — sometimes to the point of having a clinically significant impact on mental health.
The teens are mostly vaccinated and the littles are well on their way. So ... how soon can kids go to school mask-free? That is the million dollar question — with about a million more answers.
Many of us feel trapped.We can't go back to the lives we had before the coronavirus pandemic, but what lies ahead is murky. So we're frozen, caught in a holding pattern in the liminal space between what was and what will be. How do we get out of this (kind of depressing) rut?
Sáša Woodruff has a love of eating that dates back to her early childhood — when her Slovak mom would make wienerschnitzel or tomato and pepper layered goulaš. As an adult, that love evolved into a passion for cooking and baking and she has often been accused of having a cookbook-buying addiction. But then the unimaginable happened.
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