Waking Up in the Polycrisis
A Guide for Young People Feeling Too Much in a Broken World
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The world is on fire — literally and figuratively — and if you’re feeling it deeply, that’s not a sign something is wrong with you. It’s a sign you’re paying attention. Waking Up in the Polycrisis is a companion for the generation navigating overlapping crises: ecological breakdown, democratic erosion, economic precarity, and the collapse of stable futures.
Drawing on systems thinking, emotional literacy, and the wisdom of sacred grief, this guide helps young people make sense of the overwhelm without numbing out or burning out. It offers tools for staying present to what’s real while cultivating the inner resilience and collective intelligence needed to become active agents — not passive victims — of the moment we’re in.
“Emotional literacy, systems thinking, and sacred grief for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.”
The polycrisis isn’t a problem to solve — it’s a threshold to cross. This book is your crossing guide.
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Young people feeling too much in a world that tells them to feel less. Climate-anxious teenagers, socially aware twenty-somethings, educators holding space for students overwhelmed by the news cycle, and parents looking for a bridge between their child’s anxiety and the real systemic forces at play. Anyone who has whispered, “Is it supposed to feel this hard?” — and hasn’t gotten a useful answer yet.