A zine about mental health + climate change.
After the Fire is a short story about a psychiatrist navigating her personal and professional life after a devastating fire in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Creative Hope is a nonfiction piece sharing our process of writing the story and demonstrating how to imagine the future to shape the world we want.
Taken together, they offer a roadmap for anyone inspired to share their own vision of the future.
Click on the covers to download them for free, or email creativehopeproject@gmail.com if you want a physical copy.
Nice to meet you.
We are Carson Brown, Chantal Forfota, and Rebecca Watters, three psychiatrists who formed a climate psychiatry working group in January of 2022 to learn about the mental health impacts of climate change and what we could do to support our patients experiencing eco-anxiety, climate trauma, and despair amid the polycrisis.
When we set out, we didn’t think we would end up self-publishing a zine, but we came to understand that exercising our imaginations to envision the just, sustainable future we want is one of the most important things we could do.
We are sharing our work in the hope that it will encourage other people from many different fields and backgrounds to contribute their vision to the collective collage until an image of our shared future starts to emerge.
We’d love to support your Creative Hope Project.
We hope that dozens — nay, hundreds! — of people make and share their own visions of what resilience looks like in the context of climate change.
Do you already have your own project, or are you feeling inspired to start one? Please get in touch.
