The Green Warrior
CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING THE GREEN ARCHETYPES QUIZ!
ACCORDING TO YOUR RESULTS YOU ARE A NATURAL BORN LEADER WITH A STRONG SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG.
When it comes to climate change, you’re a disruptor who is not afraid to challenge out-of-date systems. Your trail-blazing nature means that you are a pioneer when it comes to decarbonising your life and will be one of the first of your friends to be measuring up for a heat pump. Like a cheetah, you are fast off the mark and agile. But you also have a warmth that makes people gravitate towards you.
You can struggle with a tendency to perfectionism and trying to do too much, all at once. You get frustrated when things aren’t done properly, and can find yourself impatient when you see that environmental policy is not far-reaching enough.
To find your balance, experiment with surrendering to the flow of that which you can not control. What would it be like to trust that life’s timing is just as it is meant to be?
(With your inquisitive mind, you’re likely to want to check the answer to the plastic question: it is 9%. That’s right just 9% of plastic gets recycled globally, which as a Green Warrior you’re going to want to put right!)
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
- Lao Tzu
Here are 3 practical resources to get you started:
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And here are 3 resources for embracing the Journey of Green Living
1 CONNECT WITH THE WISDOM OF NATURE
When we’re children we intuitively know how to be in Nature but as adults we tend to walk through it as if it was wallpaper. We no longer have much space to pause, to look up at the sky, the branches of the trees or to run barefoot in the grass. To reconnect with the wisdom of nature, we need to slow right down and focus on the flicker of light on leaves, the touch of a light breeze on our skin or the earth beneath our feet. By reconnecting with Nature we become less caught up in our busy minds and more in tune with ourselves and this glorious planet we call home.
2 GROW A GREEN MINDSET
Nature is not just our healer but also our guide. Nature’s systems are inherently balanced in their design. Nature is circular - the oak tree’s leaves fall to the ground in autumn, forming a natural compost that feeds the trees roots - and zero waste - even the acorn casings become food for worms which turn them into soil. We can grow a green mindset by following Nature’s patterns and observing how, rather than judge her progress, she steadily moves forward. Imagine how much you too could achieve if you turned your energy away from judging towards simply being.
3 BUILD YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
Living a green life means transitioning from one set of habits to another. This can feel like hard work for the brain which prefers to cruise on autopilot. To make it easier we can harness two emotions: celebration and self-compassion. By celebrating our wins each time we choose the sustainable option, we light up the dopamine reward circuit in our brains. And if we’re gentle on ourselves when we forget, or get too busy, we lose our fear of failing to “get it right”. This helps our mind experience the transition as enjoyable rather than stressful and builds our mental resilience to keep going.
Hello, I’m Lucy Johnson!
Like you, I’m a Green Warrior who was destined to lead others along this path.
Green living is about connection and empowerment. That is exactly what I do. I connect people to Nature’s intuitive wisdom - and their own. I believe this reconnection is what gives us the psychological resilience to adapt to our changing world and the motivation to keep going on our journey to a greener life.
A bit about me: working as a political and environmental TV reporter 20 years ago opened my eyes to the destruction we are wreaking on the planet. In struggling with my own eco-anxiety, I retrained as a psychotherapist and I now use integrative therapy, eco-therapy and coaching to help people reconnect with Nature and reclaim their calm.
Through my sustainability coaching, I support individuals and groups both psychologically and practically in the steps that we can all take to decarbonise our lives and ease plastic and damaging synthetic chemicals out of our homes.
“When we stop and listen to Nature, we learn to listen to ourselves. I work beside you to make space for this, and transform foreboding about climate change into a sense of agency about your part in repairing it.”
- Lucy
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