{"id":1553,"date":"2010-03-22T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:10:02","slug":"taking-breaks-staying-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2010\/03\/taking-breaks-staying-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking breaks, staying healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate asked the question last week &#8220;<a title=\"Kate at ClimateSight on &quot;Staying Sane&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/climatesight.org\/2010\/03\/14\/staying-sane\/\" target=\"_blank\">How do you stay sane<\/a>&#8221; (while fighting the misinformation campaigns and worrying about our prospects for averting dangerous climate change). Kate&#8217;s post reminded me of a post I did last year on <a title=\"Serendipity: Climate Trauma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=446\" target=\"_blank\">climate trauma<\/a>, and specifically <a title=\"Gillian Caldwell: &quot;Coming out of the closet: My climate trauma (and yours?)&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1sky.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/coming-out-of-the-closet-my-climate-trauma-and-yours\" target=\"_blank\">the essay by Gillian Caldwell<\/a>, in which she compares the emotional burnout that many of us feel when dealing with climate change with other types of psychological trauma. I originally read this at a time when I was overdoing it, working late into the evenings, going to bed exhausted, and then finding myself unable to sleep because my head was buzzing with everything I&#8217;d just been working on. Gillian&#8217;s essay struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p>I took on board many of the\u00a0<a title=\"Climate Trauma Survival Tips from Dr Lise van Susteren\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1sky.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/coming-out-of-the-closet-my-climate-trauma-and-yours#tips\" target=\"_blank\">climate trauma survival tips<\/a>, and in particular, I started avoiding climate related work in the evenings. My blogging rate went down and I started sleeping and exercising properly again. But good habits can be hard to maintain, and I realise in the last few months I was <a title=\"Lou Grinzo quotes xkcd to great effect...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grinzo.com\/energy\/index.php\/2010\/03\/18\/my-devolution-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">overdoing<\/a> it again. As it was March break last week, we took a snap decision to take some time off, and took the kids skiing in Quebec. We even managed to fit in trips to Ottawa and Montreal en route, as the kids hadn&#8217;t been to either city.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was great, but wasn&#8217;t 100% effective as a complete break. I was reminded of climate change throughout: I didn&#8217;t need a coat in Ottawa (in March!!) and we picnicked outdoors in Montreal (in March!!). There&#8217;s no snow left in the <a title=\"wikipedia entry on the Laurentides in Quebec\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurentides_(region)\" target=\"_blank\">Laurentides<\/a> (except on the ski slopes); and we found ourselves skiing in hot sunshine (which meant by mid-afternoon the slopes were covered in piles of wet slush). The ski operators told us they normally stay open through mid-April, but that looks extremely unlikely this year. And sure enough, I return to the news that <a title=\"Physorg: Canada Reports Mildest Winter on Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news188288743.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canada has experienced the warmest winter<\/a> ever recorded, and\u00a0<a title=\"ClimateProgress: NASA: \u201cIt is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010\u2033\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/19\/nasa-giss-james-hansen-global-warming-record-hottest-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;re on course for the hottest year ever<\/a>. It <a title=\"The Vancouver Sun: Games show why global warming must be tackled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/opinion\/Games+show+global+warming+must+tackled\/2601049\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t be good news<\/a> for the ski industry.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not good news for me \u00a0because I&#8217;m now back to blogging late into the evening again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate asked the question last week &#8220;How do you stay sane&#8221; (while fighting the misinformation campaigns and worrying about our prospects for averting dangerous climate change). Kate&#8217;s post reminded me of a post I did last year on climate trauma, and specifically the essay by Gillian Caldwell, in which she compares the emotional burnout that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}