Hosted by clinical psychologist Emily Toner, Climate Courage is a 10-episode audio journey for anyone navigating emotional fatigue, eco-anxiety, or burnout in the face of the environmental crisis. Whether you're a frontline climate professional, an activist, or an everyday person who cares deeply about our collective future, this podcast offers grounded psychological tools, personal and science-based insights and a safe space to process challenging thoughts and emotions. Each episode blends insights from wellbeing science, behavioural pyschology, mindfulness, and systems thinking to help you process grief, regulate your nervous system, and rediscover agency and courage.
Ready to transform climate overwhelm into empowered action? This finale episode brings together 10 episodes of climate psychology, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices into one clear roadmap for sustainable environmental engagement. What You'll Discover: Why climate change is a human behavior problem, not just a technology challengeHow emotions drive climate action (and why feeling good helps the planet)How to process climate grief and channel it into meaningful actsYour uniqu...
15 Sept 2025
Ep 9. Climate Leadership — You Are More Powerful Than You Think
Why small steps matter when finding your voice as an environmental leader. Feeling like you're "not enough" to make a difference on climate change? You're not alone. In this episode, clinical psychologist Emily Toner explores how imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy keep us small—especially when the world needs our voices most. What You'll Learn: How to transform feelings of "not enoughness".Why almost everyone struggles with imposter syndrome (and what that means for climate action)....
8 Sept 2025
Ep 8. Self-Compassion Ingites Action
✨ Could being a little bit kinder to ourselves be the secret to collective climate courage? In this episode of Climate Courage, Emily Toner, Clinical Psychologist, explores how self-compassion is the missing link we are to build the resilience and courage needed for the challenges ahead. Building on the last session—where listeners examined unhelpful beliefs that fuel overwhelm and powerlessness—this conversation turns to the practice of tending to our inner nature with compassion rather than...
1 Sept 2025
Ep 7. The Courage to Change — One Person's Ripple Effect
Do you ever catch yourself thinking: "I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” In this episode, we explore how to weed out unhelpful thoughts that lead to overwhelm and powerlessness, and plant seeds of empowerment and active hope. Drawing on stories from climate activism, psychology, and host Emily Toner's inner circle, you’ll learn how small, intentional actions can ripple outward—just like Greta Thunberg’s first school strike. 🌱 What you’ll discover in this episode: Why thou...
25 Aug 2025
Ep 6. Remembering You Are Nature
In this episode of Climate Courage, clinical psychologist Emily Toner explores how reconnecting with nature—and our own inner nature—can help us cultivate joy, resilience, and clarity in the midst of stress, uncertainty, and the challenges of modern life. Today’s episode gets straight into a guided practice, an invitation to slow down, breathe, and remember that everything we need to live fully and meaningfully is already within us. By embracing both our discomfort and our expansiveness, we b...
19 Aug 2025
Ep 5. Positive Emotion — Why Feeling Good Helps the Earth
In this episode of Climate Courage, we explore why prioritising your personal wellbeing may be one of the most powerful actions you can take to heal the earth. After honouring grief in our last session, today we shift into a lighter place. Together, we unpack the neuroscience behind positive emotions — and why joy, gratitude, and connection are far from luxuries during a time of climate crisis. They're necessities. You’ll learn: How positive emotion literally expands your visual and mental fi...
11 Aug 2025
Ep 4. How to Be with Climate Grief
Episode 4: Knowing Grief — How to Sit with Climate Grief In this episode of Climate Courage, we gently explore the emotional landscape of climate grief — a incredibly reasonable response to the experience of ecological loss, environmental destruction, and an uncertain future. Join clinical psychologist Emily Toner as she guides you through a deeper understanding of environmental grief and offers tools to help you process pain, access resilience, and connect back to nature with presence ...
4 Aug 2025
Ep 3. From Shame to Courage — How Emotions Shape Action
In this episode of Climate Courage, we explore how some emotions spur us into action while others stop us in our tracks. From shame, guilt, and fear, which tend to paralyze us, to courage, acceptance, and love, which empower us to move forward with clarity and purpose. Clinical Psychologist Emily Toner shares personal insights and psychological research into how different emotional states influence our motivation and behaviour. You’ll learn: Why some emotions lead to inaction and burnou...
28 Jul 2025
Ep 2. A Brain That Can’t Feel, Can’t Act
In this episode of Climate Courage, clinical psychologist Emily Toner explores how our emotions shape decision-making and behaviour—and why avoiding discomfort may be the greatest barrier to meaningful climate action. Drawing on the work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, we uncover how emotions aren't just “nice to have,” but essential for purposeful action. Without them, even simple choices become impossible. So what does that mean for an overwhelmed world trying to face an existential envi...
25 Jul 2025
Ep 1. Climate Courage — Seeing the Human Side of the Crisis
In this powerful first episode of Climate Courage, clinical psychologist Emily Toner explores the emotional toll of climate change and why our greatest environmental challenge may not be a technology problem at all, but a problem of human behaviour. With a personal story followed by a perspective-taking practice, Emily helps listeners begin to process eco-anxiety, climate grief, and the overwhelm that so many people feel in the face of environmental collapse. You’ll discover: Why the climate ...
24 Jul 2025
Welcome to Climate Courage
How do we stay present and purposeful in the face of ecological breakdown, climate grief, and total overwhelm? Climate Courage is a 10-episode audio journey for anyone navigating emotional fatigue, eco-distress, or burnout in the face of the environmental crisis. Whether you're a frontline climate professional, an overwhelmed young person, or a concerned citizen, this podcast offers 10 days of grounded psychological tools for processing difficult emotions, building resilience and reigniting p...
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