{"id":10940,"date":"2024-01-29T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/?page_id=10940"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:39:15","slug":"spiritual-care-for-climate-distress-anxiety-and-grief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/spiritual-care-for-climate-distress-anxiety-and-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Care for Climate Distress, Anxiety and Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The climate crisis is an everything crisis. It is an environmental crisis, an infrastructure crisis, a political, social, and economic crisis.  It\u2019s a health crisis, and it has become an emotional and spiritual crisis.  There are different ways of describing what people might be experiencing, including eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, eco-dread, eco-despair, eco-depression, eco-grief, solastalgia, and biospheric concern. Climate anxiety is so prevalent that it will soon be named as a mental health disorder in the DSM. Among the impacts of this distress is a feeling of paralysis or stuckness. We can become immobilized with distress and unmotivated to act for climate justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no quick fix, and yet research shows that gathering in community to companion one another is a primary strategy for addressing this distress. Churches are perfectly situated to do this. When we metabolize our feelings together, we prevent becoming paralyzed and can commit to meaningful action together.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UU Ministry for Earth has developed resources for you so you can do just that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ask that if you use these materials, that you make a donation to UUMFE <\/a>or share an offering<\/a> plate with us. Thank you! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship Service<\/a><\/strong> (PDF Version Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-Hour and 30-Minute Workshop<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Small Group Ministry Sessions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The climate crisis is an everything crisis. It is an environmental crisis, an infrastructure crisis, a political, social, and economic crisis.  It\u2019s a health crisis, and it has become an emotional and spiritual crisis.  There are different ways of describing what people might be experiencing, including eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, eco-dread, eco-despair, eco-depression, eco-grief, solastalgia, and biospheric concern. Climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":11538,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10940\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}