{"title":"Books by Anouchka Grose","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781913520762","title":"How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn essential mental-health handbook for the next generation' - Vanessa Nakate \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book for children to tackle the growing phenomenon of eco-anxiety. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on \u003cb\u003ehow to ease your eco-anxiety by taking positive action.\u003c\/b\u003e You'll find out how to validate your emotions. You'll learn how to build your resilience. You'll even discover the comfort that can be found in your community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen accessible steps\u003c\/b\u003e will help you understand your eco-anxiety, and the toolkit at the end of each step will allow you to grow with the knowledge and learn how you are part of the solution. \u003cb\u003eYou'll finish this book feeling hopeful, empowered and equipped with the solutions needed to make a positive difference to the planet, to others, and to yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43058506301618,"sku":"9781913520762","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913520762_9fe2012e-e455-44e9-91f6-edc33f5ff86e.jpg?v=1786030551"},{"product_id":"9781786784292","title":"A Guide to Eco-Anxiety","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is the first mainstream book to tackle the growing phenomenon of eco-anxiety. Written by a psychoanalyst, with a foreword from Greenpeace's Ed Gillespie, this book offers emotional tools and strategies to ease anxiety by taking positive action on a personal and community level.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Guide to Eco-Anxiety outlines a manifesto for action, connection and hope. Showing how to harness anxiety for positive action, as well as effective ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most powerful thing we can do to combat climate change is to talk about it and act collectively. But despite it being an emergency, most people don't bring climate change into conversation in everyday life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book explores the health impact of experiencing eco-anxiety, grief and trauma, and signposts recommended treatments and therapies. It also tackles practical issues such as: why it's important to reduce plastic waste; parenting and the choice to have a family; which is more effective to bring your carbon footprint down, go vegan or fly less?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book will cultivate a pragmatic form of hope by offering a dynamic toolkit packed with practical ways to connect with community and systemic support, self-care practices to ease the symptoms of anxiety, and strategies to spread awareness and - crucially - bring about change.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305714200949,"sku":"9781786784292","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786784292_543a74fd-5c11-4dcf-a04e-f831e227774e.jpg?v=1786025929"},{"product_id":"9781912559497","title":"Fashion: A Manifesto","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith a critical eye trained on the capitalistic allure and environmental impact of the fashion industry, this timely and stirringly argued book puts forward a radical new approach to the way we represent ourselves through our clothes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashion: A Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e takes a look at the psychology of fashion in order to unpick the hold it has on so many of us. On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you’re proud of. However, fashion isn’t really about clothes in any practical sense, but rather the endless replacement of clothes by other clothes, and especially the vilification of certain styles and the extreme elevation of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike gambling, fashion is a system that keeps us captivated by treating us badly, trapping us in a cycle of promises and dashed hopes by suggesting that new clothes will help us to like ourselves more. And while it’s easy to dismiss fashion as elitist and wasteful, isn’t fashion also fascinating, exciting and perhaps sometimes even radical—not to mention surprisingly egalitarian?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than insisting we give up on the pleasures that clothes have to offer, this brilliant new book by psychoanalyst and writer Anouchka Grose puts forward a post-fashion logic that rejects the parade of manufactured novelties in favor of more idiosyncratic forms of sartorial imitation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking us on a journey from the court of Louis XIV to TikTok’s avant apocalypse, \u003ci\u003eFashion: A Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e scrutinizes fashion from a number of angles: historically, psychologically, politically, environmentally, even linguistically, to open up questions about the ways in which it works both for and against us and looks forward to a future where our clothes treat us—not to mention the planet—a great deal more kindly.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309025800565,"sku":"9781912559497","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912559497_80e52791-9824-43bb-be38-2503d29e8647.jpg?v=1786030624"},{"product_id":"9781917378116","title":"The Revolution Will Be Internalised","description":"But, shaken by the apparent futility of Western activism in the face of inertia and corruption, she began to question her choices, both material and emotional. 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