Thank you for sharing this taxonomy. In my work on ecodistress/development and mothers in the perinatal period, belonging and rage are the most often reported. This helps connect those experiences.
Deep (re)connection to place... someone said to me "the magic in my backyard" to describe the experience of nature's revivification... while also reporting intense anger at the recognition of the lack of relationship and all the many things happening to the earth and its inhabitants. Many other feelings were reported, but these two are often the most intense.
Thanks for sharing. Is the fact that they're expecting or just have given birth somehow connected to the emotions? Just curious as it also sounds like what you describe could occur without perinatal status.
I say "yes" to both thoughts. We're researching the pathway in the matrescence lab at Columbia and the transition into motherhood certainly shapes the experience.
Oh, yes, sorry, Britt. This is not the science page...it's the emotional page. Here's some emotional stuff (I was accused of being emotional) of mine..
This piece is not very helpful. In fact, it would be nice if the therapy profession would just show some humility and say "we don't have the slightest idea what to do about this historically-unprecedented event." What I see is a lot of posturing and bluffing. A taxonomy of emotion is just a bunch of words about words. The therapy industry should really take a step back and have a good hard look about what they're really capable of instead of assuming that they know what to do.
Thanks for your comment, but there might be some confusion as Panu isn't a therapist or doing this research from a therapy angle. He is a theologian and eco-emotions researcher, so very much interested in what words used to describe different feelings mean, for their own sake. And as he says, this isn't about trying to control the way we respond to what you rightly call a historically unprecedented event
Really important article. I spread it around! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this taxonomy. In my work on ecodistress/development and mothers in the perinatal period, belonging and rage are the most often reported. This helps connect those experiences.
Interesting! Can you say more about what you're noticing about how the belonging and rage manifest for them?
Deep (re)connection to place... someone said to me "the magic in my backyard" to describe the experience of nature's revivification... while also reporting intense anger at the recognition of the lack of relationship and all the many things happening to the earth and its inhabitants. Many other feelings were reported, but these two are often the most intense.
Thanks for sharing. Is the fact that they're expecting or just have given birth somehow connected to the emotions? Just curious as it also sounds like what you describe could occur without perinatal status.
I say "yes" to both thoughts. We're researching the pathway in the matrescence lab at Columbia and the transition into motherhood certainly shapes the experience.
Such cool work you're doing. Please let me know if you ever have findings you'd like to share on Gen Dread!
Thank you. Looking forward to reading about your experiences around reproductive identity and ecoemotions soon as your book comes out.
And congratulations!
Thank you!
There's actually no need to worry about a thing..."climate change" being a load of bollocks.
Here's the truth of the science (mainly my confrontation with Rick)
https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2021/02/science-says-change-the-weather-and-break-the-countrys-heart/
This last comment of mine (+links) encompasses just about everything...
https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2021/02/science-says-change-the-weather-and-break-the-countrys-heart/#comment-1596412
Best wishes for the future for the lady who operates this site.
Mack.
Sky Dragon Slayers Chief Public Relations Officer.
Wrong page, bro
Oh, yes, sorry, Britt. This is not the science page...it's the emotional page. Here's some emotional stuff (I was accused of being emotional) of mine..
http://localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2018/01/climate-change-just-got-personal.html?showComment=1516344914022#c2227445517051063591
Glad you are back and I look forward to digging deeper into this and subsequent posts.
thanks Bill!
This piece is not very helpful. In fact, it would be nice if the therapy profession would just show some humility and say "we don't have the slightest idea what to do about this historically-unprecedented event." What I see is a lot of posturing and bluffing. A taxonomy of emotion is just a bunch of words about words. The therapy industry should really take a step back and have a good hard look about what they're really capable of instead of assuming that they know what to do.
Thanks for your comment, but there might be some confusion as Panu isn't a therapist or doing this research from a therapy angle. He is a theologian and eco-emotions researcher, so very much interested in what words used to describe different feelings mean, for their own sake. And as he says, this isn't about trying to control the way we respond to what you rightly call a historically unprecedented event