Tom Woodbury
1 min readAug 19, 2020

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Thanks so much for your heartful public grieving here, LaUra. I especially appreciated the recollection of Michael Rupert. I was originally scheduled to the guest on his last show, but was bumped to the following week. I was serving at Zen Hospice at the time, and had just published "Planetary Hospice." I like to think I could've made a difference in his suicidal ideation, but will never know. Carolyn had me as the first guest on the New Lifeboat Hour, and she's been such a valuable ally. It was through regular conversation with her that I developed the theory of climate trauma. In this brief, beautiful essay, you really embody the spirit I was trying to evoke in Planetary Hospice. I think faith is much more critical to our mental health now than hope, which is really what Frankl gets at in his book, imho.

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Tom Woodbury
Tom Woodbury

Written by Tom Woodbury

Communications Director for Buffalo Field Campaign, ecopsychologist/author, M.A., J.D.

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