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Reasons why your brain is the biggest part of going green: 1. Changing your habits requires changing your thinking, behaviour & attitudes. ? 2. This takes time and it isn't easy. For example, going to an #opshop for an item you need instead of a mall, taking your own bags, refusing to shop. ? 3. It takes strength of mind and resilience to keep on the path and not go backwards. ? 4. It takes acceptance and commitment, understanding your values and allowing yourself to feel uncomfortable feelings, to deal with #ecoanxiety and #climategrief.

Reasons why your brain is the biggest part of going green: 1. Changing your habits requires changing your thinking, behaviour and attitudes. 🐝 2. This takes time and it isn’t easy. For example, going to an op shop for an item you need instead of a mall, taking your own bags, refusing to shop. 🐸 3. It…

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Do you collect things? I have been collecting since I was a little girl and I fell in love with green glass. Mum and Dad would take me to secondhand shops and let me have a small amount of money to spend. I could not resist the way the light fell across old green glass…

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Plastic Free July is a campaign led by the Plastic Free Foundation. Each year, millions of people around the globe take the challenge and choose to refuse single-use plastics. Their vision is for us to live in a world without plastic waste. This is such an important movement. The idea of Plastic Free July is…

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climate anxiety, climate grief, eco anxiety, climate emergency

How do you hold onto hope when everything seems hopeless? How do you enjoy daily life when it all feels pointless? These kinds of feelings are things I have experienced before, as someone who has had depression a number of times. And I am feeling them now, but not due to depression. We are now…

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why we are in a climate emergency and what you can do about it

Have you noticed that more and more people are becoming climate aware? More and more of us are talking about climate change and what we have to do to stop, or at least slow down, this impending doom. But this is not the time to be talking about ‘climate change’ anymore, it is the time…

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Junkies Magazine: Making Change in the World, One Piece of Junk at a Time

I am very excited to be announcing my partnership with Junkies magazine. I will be a regular contributer to the magazine, writing about sustainable living and homes. Junkies was started in 2012 by a small group of passionate creative women from Queensland. Current editor, Selena Buckingham, was lucky enough to become part of Junkies from…

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Welcome. My name is Dr Helen Edwards. I have a PhD in Psychology. I am an author of children’s and young adult fiction, and non-fiction for adults. I am an award-winning health and sustainability writer, blogger and advocate. I am represented by Debbie Golvan, of Golvan Arts Management.

I like to write about people and planet, and I include nature, our environment and relationships between people, in both my sustainability and health writing, and my fiction books for children.

I am currently working on my diabetes memoir and a couple of middle-grade stories, as well as writing here at my blog. You will see a wide range of topics here, including health, mental health, disability, diabetes, sustainable living, the environment, climate change and more. I am available for all sorts of freelance writing, advocacy and speaking work – see more here.

I look forward to sharing stories with you and inspiring action for people and planet, with kindness and hope.

Helen x

Sustainability

Reasons Why Your Brain is the Biggest Part of Going Green

Three of the Best Collectibles For Children

Plastic Free July: There’s No Such Thing as Perfect

Flourishing in the Face of Climate-Grief and Eco-Anxiety

Why We Are in a Climate Emergency and What You Can Do About it

Junkies Magazine: Making Change in the World, One Piece of Junk at a Time