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Peak Eco-anxiety - thanks brain 👌🏽

 Am I trying to be zero waste? Plastic free? Eco friendly? Clean living? Green living? Sustainable lifestyle? What do these titles even mean? I just want to make sure I'm not contributing to the 'climate apocalypse' (I only recently found out that was real turn of phrase). Intrusive thoughts I have nearly everyday "I'm not doing enough" "I need to be doing more" "We have too much plastic waste in the house, we are polluting the earth, it's going in the sea, it's killing the turtles" "The glitter from my old nail polish is now in fish" Constant guilt for putting my own convenience over the needs of the planet. And so I try to do more, and it's still not enough. I've actually have made lots of positive changes over the last five years but I can't stop, there feels like there is still so much more to do. And the more I look into it the more I find. I guess ignorance really is bliss! In a bid to educate and inform ...