Parenting in a Changing Climate: Tools for cultivating resilience, taking action, and practicing hope in the face of climate change

"Bechard traverses the experience of parenting in the age of climate breakdown with insight, compassion, and uncompromising honesty. This beautifully-written book invites readers to come to terms with the grief and travails that accompany bringing new life into an increasingly damaged world. It's a book that our time badly needs; and if you are a parent whose eyes are open, it's a book that YOU need."

--Professor Rupert Read, author of Parents for a Future: How loving our children can prevent climate collapse​​

"At a time when many people are questioning whether or not to have kids at all because of the severity of the climate crisis, Parenting in a Changing Climate does something profound. It calls for parents' moral clarity, emotional intelligence and resilience, showing that these are indeed possible to practice when facing the crisis, and supports the climate-concerned who haven't turned away from having kids despite the existential threat humanity now faces. Increasing numbers of people will be needing this book as ecological losses and a warming world bear down on their family relationships, and through it, they'll find strength."

--Dr. Britt Wray, author of Gen Dread, Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and LSHTM

"If our real job as humans is to engage more emotionally with the climate crisis then Elizabeth's book is an invaluable tool in that process... Elizabeth seemingly effortlessly combines well-researched data with personal experience and her years of working with families. This book articulated what I felt as a parent working on the climate crisis, but hadn't ever put into words. You will find a newfound sense of your ability to make a difference and your relevance to the crisis. Beautiful, tender and truly eloquent, Elizabeth's writing is at once gentle, funny, bluntly honest and heart-rending. She deftly handles two very emotive subjects in this, unbelievably, her first book. I very much hope that she writes more."

--Charly Cox, coach and Founder of Climate Change Coaches

"Bearing witness to a set of interlocking issues, including eco-anxiety and climate grief, Elizabeth Bechard has penned an extraordinarily sensitive, evocative, and beautifully moving portrait of parenthood in this time of severe climate disruption. Her book is heartbreaking, yet ultimately healing and validating to read. It is also one of the most immediately useful books I have read in years, including an invitation to simply feel what we are feeling, and to build our resilience, as first steps in moving towards meaningful and open conversations, and from there to engage in effective collective action. Any parent, or anyone considering having children, will find their concerns and thoughts reflected in these pages, along with tools and practices to move us in a positive direction.

--Peter Tavernise, coach and Executive Director of the Cisco Foundation

"Parenting in a Changing Climate is a highly personal and at the same time completely relatable account of a mother of young children waking up to the stark realities of our climate emergency. Bechard uses her background in public health and coaching to weave into her story practical actions and important questions for each of us to ponder including the most complicated question of all: 'What did you do once you knew?' The book helps us find direct and straightforward ways to answer this question and many others and to build up our resiliency to face head on what lies ahead."

--Harriet Shugarman, award-winning author of How to Talk to Our Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst into Action

"I love this book. It is told with honesty, integrity and vulnerability, is compassionate for self and the planet and it is embracing, insightful and has humor. Yes, it is a serious