After ~12 years, I have left @EnvDefenseFund as a Climate Scientist & a Director of Climate Smart Agriculture. I will focus on promoting Zen meditation & Traditional Ecological Knowledge practices for trauma healing & climate justice through my nonprofit Boundless in Motion 1/n Incredibly proud of my @EnvDefenseFund team’s accomplishments. We added #riceN2O on a global map + GHG emissions from several Indian crops in the IPCC database, led large hyperlocal soil health assessment, created-led 1st #ClimateSmartAg training for Indian Govt, Univs + NGOs 2/n

No words can explain the pain and confusion Boulder community feels after the shocking action #Wynnbruce took on Earth Day. I write in this @ColoradoSun OpEd how I'm making sense out of it all given #climategrief and my onoging work with activists. 1/n coloradosun.com/2022/05/13/wyn… "On Earth Day 2022, Wynn Bruce set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. For eight years, I have known Wynn as a beautiful friend, Buddhist meditation practitioner, lover of nature, selfless, brave, fun loving and creative man." 2/n

India is now a "chamber of horrors". I haven't experienced suffering so deep & paralyzing! In this @Lionsroar piece I share how to help India breathe, how to confront oppression in the long term, organizations to support and how to send loving-kindness buff.ly/3t5ogSZ 1/n

https://twitter.com/LionsRoar/status/1388176460033183747

It has been absolutely brutal soaking in the collective trauma of my people. My family, friends & colleagues live in Delhi - epicenter of the current crisis.

It feels like everyone I know is on their knees begging for oxygen, medicines & places to bury/cremate the dead. 2/n

A thread on relieving anxiety on a day when I am recovering from covid-19, worried about my family in India (potential covid hotspot) & a champion for just transition + health care dropped out.

I can't speak about grief & emotional regulation practices without being .. 1/ ...vulnerable about my own emotional landscape.

My spouse & I spent several days in the last 2 weeks considering if we needed to go to ER. Was pulse rate or oxygen bad enough? Was the chest pain indicative of enough inflammation of my heart that an ECG test was needed? 2/

Thread: This photo is three days old. I don’t need oxygen anymore but my husband and I, two climate scientists, dearly wish that our community will learn from our experience. Try not to get exposed but also be ready to be visited by this virus. #coronasurvivor #Isurvivedcorona 1/ No, I don't know how I got exposed. I live in Boulder Colorado and my doctors think there are thousands of cases here but only 200 official cased.

And no, I wasn't tested but my symptoms spoke for themselves. Yes, my second week was hard - as usually is for non-mild cases. 2/

Thread:

It is my 40th birthday this weekend. I wondered: What can a climate scientist, Zen meditation teacher, & social justice advocate gift herself in these times?

Guiding a grief, anger, fear and confusion sharing ritual.

Before you dismiss this as new agey, read on.. 1/n Even if we have not faced outright trauma of growing in a turbulent or abusive family, our body gets used to entering fight, flight, freeze and fawn (FFFF) modes of operation since childhood. Evolution created these modes of operation to protect us from snakes/tigers 2/n