by Alan Heeks | Jul 15, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
If you’re working with hazardous materials, you need good methods and equipment. The future really is hard to face: it can easily feel bleak and overwhelming. Many people feel pain and despair about the state of the world and the environment, and blank out to avoid...
by Alan Heeks | Jun 30, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
Emergency resilience: why you need it Learning from Boiled Frog syndrome Climate psychologists tell us that humans aren’t good at dealing with complex, diffuse threats whose timing is uncertain. It seems we’d be great at handling a woolly mammoth attack, and our...
by Alan Heeks | Jun 21, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
Mining for hope in the quarry of gloom There must be some kind of way outta hereSaid the joker to the thiefThere’s too much confusionI can’t get no relief In this time of big troubles, it’s easy to feel hopeless. And if you’re an anxious type, like me, you’ll always...
by Alan Heeks | Feb 8, 2021 | Natural Happiness Blog
Deep Adaptation and climate change: an introduction Back in 2018, the sense of urgency about the climate crisis rose sharply, helped by several key voices, including Greta Thunberg, and Jem Bendell. Jem uses the term Deep Adaptation as a focus for facing and adapting...
by Alan Heeks | May 21, 2022 | Natural Happiness Blog
Could a pilgrimage renew you? As life keeps getting more complex and confusing, I’ve found that pilgrimages are a good antidote, a way to feel renewed, re-centred, clarified. The tradition of pilgrimage goes back many centuries, and has seen some revival in...
