Earth Day as a Conscious Way of Living

Each April, Earth Day reminds us to appreciate the beauty of our planet and the urgency of our climate crisis.

But Earth Day isn't a day. It's a heartbeat. It’s a rhythmic call to action.
A pulse that calls us back, not just once a year, or for a month of feel-good green campaigns, but into an everyday relationship with a climate-changed world.

Earlier this month, I wrote a piece in choice magazine (a coaching publication) on climate-conscious coaching. I shared a framework that’s as relevant to all of us–academics, parents, leaders, and professionals–as it is to professional coaches.

The emotional, physical, and mental toll of climate change will show up increasingly in our classrooms, meetings, family dinners, and internal monologues, as well as climate work. It will show up in burnout, grief, numbness, urgency, and overwhelm.

And whether you're leading teams, mentoring others, or trying to make sense of the world yourself, this moment asks us to grow our capacity for resilience and connection.

 Read my article in choice magazine - Coaching with Certainty through Climate’s Uncertainty: A four-step process to build climate resilience

Inside, I share my 4-step resilience process - Access, Assess, Align, and Action - as a framework to move through these climate engagement blocks and into embodied, sustainable engagement paired with lots of self-coaching reflection questions for each step of the process. 

This Earth Day, I’m not asking you to do more. I’m not even asking you to celebrate Earth Day. I’m inviting you to live differently. To live into your own version of climate consciousness, not as pressure, but as practice. One rooted in embodied care, emotional presence, and intentional connection.

You don’t have to have all the answers; you just have to stay in the conversation so that you keep returning to connection.