|Emotional Healing| Climate Change| Nature|
Processing Ecological Sorrow & Anxiety
after the emotional toll of wildfires and heat domes
“Mom, come here!” My son called me to come outside. “It is so beautiful out, look!” He was pointing up to the stars. He said, “feel that”.….for the first time in close to two months, we could see the stars, and due to a MUCH-needed rainfall, the air felt clean, fresh and alive. It felt incredible, mystical! We stood outside in the grass and soaked it all in. But as the effects of the rain wore off the next day, sadly, we were back in the all too familiar smoke haze.
Out of Control Wild Fires
In my wildest dreams, I never could have imagined how the summer of 2021 here in BC (Canada -and numerous other places) would unfold! It started in mid-June with a ‘Heat Dome’ where we (and many places) experienced temperatures that we had never seen before- 49 + degrees Celsius! Which was immediately followed by a raging fire that consumed the entire town of Litton, and up to 300 fires (at one time) took on a life of their own — raging fiercely and persistently out of control.
There have been hundreds of lives lost due to the period of extreme heat; the unimaginable impact of the fires worldwide is creating utter…
