Hold Fast:
Navigating Personal and Climate Grief with a Reconciled Heart
A memoir and healing guide that draws on the sudden death of Wendy’s husband in 2016 and her decades of environmental ethics work to offer a model for navigating and reconciling both personal and climate grief.
Looking for the companion workbook? Opening to Climate Grief puts these ideas into practice.
In 2016, Wendy Sarkissian watched her husband Karl drown in a river at twilight. From that devastating loss and fifty years of work as an environmental ethicist, she developed a range of heartfelt approaches to navigating both personal and climate grief. This book is her account of that journey: through acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness, and service to others, toward a life that honors both the dead and the living Earth. This passionate book is for anyone who has loved and lost, for people grieving personal and ecological losses, and for those who need to know it is possible to survive and thrive in the face of massive losses.