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Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Planet
The Complete Emotional & Spiritual Support Guide for Alleviating Climate Stress Transform your climate anxiety and heartache into potent forces for hope and regeneration. This groundbreaking book shows you how to revitalize your life and the earth from the inside out, inspiring you to embody the phrase "heal yourself, heal the planet." Jack Adam Weber introduces you to the triangle of resilience relationships―with yourself, the natural world, and your community. He proposes that the root cause of climate crisis is a breakdown of these relationships and offers dozens of personalized self-care exercises to help you become part of the solution. This unique book is a treasure trove of practical yet innovative strategies that inspire you to take action in the spirit of interconnection and sustainability. Includes a foreword by Carolyn Baker, PhD, author of Collapsing Consciously
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352 pages, Paperback
Published September 8, 2020
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About the author
Jack Adam Weber
5 books5 followersJack Adam Weber, L.Ac., is a Chinese medicine clinician and graduated valedictorian of his class in 2000. He has over 20 years of experience working with patients and is also a climate activist, organic farmer, artist, and celebrated poet. Jack has authored hundreds of articles, thousands of poems, and several books. His most recent is Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Planet
Jack is an advocate for embodied spirituality and writes extensively on the subjects of holistic medicine, emotional depth work, mind-body integration, and climate crisis, while encouraging his readers to think critically, feel deeply, and act boldly. Jack also developed the Nourish Practice, a deeply restorative, somatic meditation practice that doubles as an educational guide for healing through the wounds of childhood. His work can be found at jackadamweber.com.
Jack is an advocate for embodied spirituality and writes extensively on the subjects of holistic medicine, emotional depth work, mind-body integration, and climate crisis, while encouraging his readers to think critically, feel deeply, and act boldly. Jack also developed the Nourish Practice, a deeply restorative, somatic meditation practice that doubles as an educational guide for healing through the wounds of childhood. His work can be found at jackadamweber.com.
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August 24, 2020
This is not just a scientific book about climate change, it’s a book that helps us to deal with the fears and anger about what is happening to our environment in an emotionally healthy, holistic way. I have been concerned about climate change for a really long time and I found this book to be a precious companion for my journey with this topic. I especially found interesting chapter on creating community.
Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
October 13, 2020
Climate Cure is a remarkably ambitions undertaking. In it, Jack Adam Weber, takes on the daunting task of trying to cut a path through the apparently impenetrable jungle of conflicting drives and beliefs that are at the root of our ongoing destruction of the Earth. He starts by making this critical distinction: that the book has little to say about how to save the planet. Instead, he addresses the far more important question of why we are destroying the planet.
This distinction is, surprisingly, often overlooked. There are many books that advocate solar energy, for example, but few that look at the psychological forces driving our addiction to fossil fuels. Weber takes his background as a practitioner of Chinese medicine and applies many of those concepts to gain an understanding of that sickness, and a program to treat it.
There is a very great deal of wisdom in this book, that rare commodity often spoken of but rarely seen, leaving one to wonder if, in this increasingly unnatural world, wisdom is as endangered as so many other living things? In his meticulous effort to show us the interconnectedness of things, and the effects of our psychic on the world beyond us, Weber, to me demonstrates that rare commodity in abundance.
Central to his thesis is his belief that the fear and anger that arises in those perceptive enough to mourn the wounding to the earth can turn redirect those emotions towards a sustained effort to heal, both the earth and ourselves. I see Weber as one of the pathfinders, a trailblazer showing us the way out of our current darkness. Whether enough of us will find our way to him, and people like him, may foretell the future of this long human journey on planet earth.
This distinction is, surprisingly, often overlooked. There are many books that advocate solar energy, for example, but few that look at the psychological forces driving our addiction to fossil fuels. Weber takes his background as a practitioner of Chinese medicine and applies many of those concepts to gain an understanding of that sickness, and a program to treat it.
There is a very great deal of wisdom in this book, that rare commodity often spoken of but rarely seen, leaving one to wonder if, in this increasingly unnatural world, wisdom is as endangered as so many other living things? In his meticulous effort to show us the interconnectedness of things, and the effects of our psychic on the world beyond us, Weber, to me demonstrates that rare commodity in abundance.
Central to his thesis is his belief that the fear and anger that arises in those perceptive enough to mourn the wounding to the earth can turn redirect those emotions towards a sustained effort to heal, both the earth and ourselves. I see Weber as one of the pathfinders, a trailblazer showing us the way out of our current darkness. Whether enough of us will find our way to him, and people like him, may foretell the future of this long human journey on planet earth.
September 7, 2020
Channel Your Inner Eco-Warrior
Sometimes, the bigger problems of the world seem too great for any one person to make an impact. The current climate change wreaking havoc with ecosystems and the planet is one such topic that seems too big for any one person to affect much (or enough) change. This author takes a different stance. I found the book surprising in many aspects, in a good way. There is much we can do, especially if we first think about changing our thoughts, attitudes, and approaches to the topic. The author does first have us look more deeply at the way we feel about climate issues and what we might want to do. Next comes what he calls the foundational work, like working with your fear and managing any anxiety you have about this. The next three sections look at what he calls the “triangle of resilience” relationships. The first one is about inner healing, the second about our connection with nature, and finally about building community. The section on nature connection absolutely resonated with me, as that is my way "in" to understanding the climate problem. I also like the idea of working beyond just our individual selves and building a community. We are stronger together than we are apart. All in all, I found this to be a fascinating look at both the inner work needed to become an eco-warrior and how to make that come alive with our choices and approaches to it in the broader world. If climate change concerns you, you may find this book helps you get a better sense of what it means to you and how to become more active.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
Sometimes, the bigger problems of the world seem too great for any one person to make an impact. The current climate change wreaking havoc with ecosystems and the planet is one such topic that seems too big for any one person to affect much (or enough) change. This author takes a different stance. I found the book surprising in many aspects, in a good way. There is much we can do, especially if we first think about changing our thoughts, attitudes, and approaches to the topic. The author does first have us look more deeply at the way we feel about climate issues and what we might want to do. Next comes what he calls the foundational work, like working with your fear and managing any anxiety you have about this. The next three sections look at what he calls the “triangle of resilience” relationships. The first one is about inner healing, the second about our connection with nature, and finally about building community. The section on nature connection absolutely resonated with me, as that is my way "in" to understanding the climate problem. I also like the idea of working beyond just our individual selves and building a community. We are stronger together than we are apart. All in all, I found this to be a fascinating look at both the inner work needed to become an eco-warrior and how to make that come alive with our choices and approaches to it in the broader world. If climate change concerns you, you may find this book helps you get a better sense of what it means to you and how to become more active.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
August 31, 2020
Climate Cure is not just a climate book talking about the ever changing climate and the need to do something now. It is also, surprisingly, a self-help book. The author jumps between climate change and healing oneself, but the general theme of the book is "hurt people hurt others" and if you heal yourself, you can help heal the Earth. This is not a book that will give you quick tips on how you can impact change at the home front. Instead, the author suggests you work through your emotions and fears from climate change to personal traumas so that you can start the true fight which is working toward larger initiatives at the corporate and government levels. The author makes clear that the work that needs to be done is going to be very tiring, but if we are in the right space mentally and spiritually, we can work to solve the larger problem. The only downside to this book I can see is the readers who like the idea of working on a larger scale, but are turned off by the alternate medicine (in this case Chinese Medicine) he references.. Otherwise, this book is perfect for those looking for the next step in climate change. (ARC from Netgalley and this review is also posted on Netgalley.)
August 9, 2022
Enchanted to read this book, it is a gift for humanity, it is inspiring and full of hope, a loving invitation towards each of us to take peaceful and conscious action, this book is a wonderful place to begin to inform you of the changes that begin in oneself.
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