Joyful Climate Writing

For Veganuary I delivered this lecture to 100 Civil Servants that are part of the Department for Education Vegan Network on the best way to lower your carbon footprint. The talk starts with a quiz created by Van der Linden, S. (2022) on What’s the Best Way to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint? New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/15/opinion/how-reduce-carbon-footprint-climate-cha...

Does coaching sometimes sound like a pyramid scheme? Or like it is just one more failing by you if you can't manage your mind enough to transform your work culture to not be about overwork? In this episode I talk about what I'm learning in the course the Politics of Trauma about the connection between individual and systemic change. This week we had an interview with the co-founder of Blac...

Lupins are popping up all over my allotment and flowering in their first year! When I first started growing lupins I was too frustrated to wait a year for blooms.. but I tried (although the lupin seedlings in the story I read were eaten by bunnies) and now my favourite flowers are reminding me of my passion to stay grounded. To make sense of trying to fly less, I wrote a few pieces last year about...

It's a short and sweet message this week about solidarity and remembering how united the environmental movement is with other initiatives. I also recommend a quick little read about exactly this topic - Feminism for the 99% a manifesto.

I'm seeing a lot of my friends are feeling very aware of the climate crisis. I have friends in North America, whose homes smell like campfires. And it's hard to ignore the climate crisis when that's right on your doorstep. So the book review this week is a little escapism that also packs a powerful message: Robin Hobb's trilogy Soldier Son. This taught me more about body shaming an...

Welcome to a special episode this week as I let you in on a little summer challenge! The Climate Joy Challenge is an opportunity to rewire your brain and the emotions you feel when you think about climate change and climate activism. Tune in this week as I share with you how to carry out the Climate Joy Challenge and why this will help you find more purpose, satisfaction and comfort in advocating...

This- is a very special episode as I let you in a chat I had with three fantastic climate coaches and friends of mine from the Best F***ing Coaching Course. In this episode, I share how we confront and befriend some typical climate gremlins - those inner critic voices that stop you from taking action and being as involved as you'd like! - Is it a fast-talking bully voice that tells you the wic...

I've been getting asked what I coach on - it feels a little like, what haven't I coached on? I'm open to anything, we can use the same techniques - to self regulate, clarify what you want, and process your emotions - when it comes to relationships with your parents, boss, employees, or partner! Listen on to find out more. If you want a little sunshine of inspiration and actionable tips...

For those outside the Ivory Tower, you may be surprised that Imposter Syndrome is also rampant within the Academy. It breaks my heart when I hear hard-working, brilliant colleagues and friends that are still (even after years and years of experience) feeling like they're 'not enough' and that they don't belong in academia. In this episode I walk through some of the common reasons I...

This week I received an email saying "I've just read your Imperfect Vegan piece and I absolutely loved it. I'd meant to have a quick look then get on with some work and read it later, but all the gorgeous sensory description just drew me right through it until I found I'd read the whole thing!" Not only did this warm me up like my breakfast cuppa, it made me pause what I was...

This book The Artist's Way: A course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self by Julia Cameron is probably up there as my favourite book of all time (in the self-help genre, it's too difficult to actually choose one favourite... there are too many magical books out there). Essentially, it's a 12 week course that helps you lean into your own creativity. It's a masterclass in...

This epsiode is about chronic pain and pain management. I recently hired a chronic pain specialist and 1:1 coach, and although I didn't think I was going to have much to report on after only a few days - it turns out I do! I've had a leg injury for 8 years that has never totally healed and for the first time in a long long time, if not since before the accident I've been having moments...

I have finished my coaching certification! I am now certified with the ethical coaching collective! And I want to explain what the ethical standards we were taught and are expected to uphold :) https://bestfuckingcoachingcourse.com/ethical-coaching-collective/ If you want a little sunshine of inspiration and actionable tips to improve your climate change work every single week,  sign up to my emai...

What did you do for Earth Day this year? Did it leave you lighter, buzzing, ready to take on the world? No? Me neither. I thought being surrounded by others that are worried about the climate crisis and wanting to see changes would be energising, but this time it wasn't. This isn't an uplifting episode... it's hard to feel like 'enough' is ever happening. Short of governments s...

I was speaking to one of my clients recently who told me they wondered, 'how do you do it all.' I think they meant it as a compliment, but it did worry me a little that I give off a sense of working all the time and wanted to offer this little reminder that a lot of what people 'see' in terms of me having a podcast, a newsletter, coaching clients and writing outputs from my researc...

Another one of my favourite productivity books, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms by Kate Northup. It's for more than moms and its a book I keep coming back to over and over because of Kate's step by step practical guide as well as the mindset shift. The book offers some big steps to learning to ask for help, prioritise yourself and communicate b...

If you ever find yourself repeating that 'it's too difficult' one of the best antidotes I've found is asking 'is that true?' and 'is that thought serving me?' Telling ourselves that something is impossible or too challenging, may feel true, but you may be letting it get in the way of doing something that you really do want to believe is possible for you! When you no...

I highly recommend Four Thousand Weeks: Time management for mortals by Oliver Burkeman. This my favourite book on productivity. It helped me let go of the age old existential crisis question of ‘what is the meaning of life.’ This quote in particular captures some of the essence of that, stop worrying so much about having an impact and what you should do and ask yourself what you really enjoy doing...

Welcome to a special episode this week as I let you in on some of my 'climate triggers' - the things I see that can send me into rage and despair about the climate emergency- and then a way to process these emotions - by mapping across sub-modalities in your brain, it's really fun - to reframe these feelings and thoughts into more useful action. Whether it's peat hags or rising sea...

I used to not 'get' affirmations, I thought they were a bit bullshit until week 1 of the Artist's Way. In this episode, I share tips and tricks on how to use affirmations effectively. If you don't catch the gremlins they can bring up or gaslight yourself into overly ambitious statements, sure they're bullshit. But if used with care, affirmations can be a powerful, shorthand to...

You get to choose how you feel in any moment. You don't have to just react or go into fight or flight. In this episode I share how you can recreate good feelings to get the results you want and also how you can disassociate from rumination and let go of thoughts that make you stressed and anxious with Put on your dancing shoes for the metaphoric two-step :)  If you're looking for a brillia...

This week I take inspiration from two of my current mentors to talk about relationships.  Simone Grace Seol - "Repeat after me. 'I accept NOTHING LESS than the company of people who do not merely tolerate me,  accept me, or like me with some conditions and provisions attached, but ADORE my face, and DELIGHT in all my weird quirks, eccentricities and contradictions, and TREASURE the very...

I love this prep for meetings, it helps you set intentions, let go of judgments about yourself and others, and most importantly, find a sense of sufficiency in your body.  Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/Ellsworth_Krebs Or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellsworthkrebs/ See my website for more info: https://ellsworthkrebs.mystrikingly.com/

I had a little realisation that the most important piece to getting you to take action, to make decisions from a 'good place' is to learn how to get yourself into a Resource state.  By that I mean, be able to self-regulate your nervous system so you're not in fight, flight or fawn mode. Be able to get yourself feeling calm, safe and confident even. That's the Resource state and that's where w...

I've started to get certified in the Best Fucking Coaching Course and I want to share with some of the wild stuff I've learned so far: like how to work with your memories to imprint them with new emotions. It's wild stuff. Welcome to the Meta Pattern.  Resources:  Melissa Tiers - https://www.melissatiers.com/ Simone Grace Seol - https://www.simonegraceseol.com/ Follow me on twitter: ht...