Tom Woodbury
1 min readOct 12, 2019

Scientists across all disciplines now agree that the Earth is a living organism, a life source not a resource. She is experiencing a life-threatening assault by industrialized forces. That’s trauma. We, as part of her biosphere, experience this trauma personally, causing us to exhibit fight, flight and fright responses. Why label this euphemistically as “anxiety”? IT IS TRAUMA. Call it biospheric trauma, call it Gaia trauma, call it collective trauma. But call it by its name, so we can at last embark on a path of recovery. https://medium.com/@thubtenzhiwa/healing-our-collective-traumas-healing-our-world-366390eac3d8

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Tom Woodbury
Tom Woodbury

Written by Tom Woodbury

Communications Director for Buffalo Field Campaign, ecopsychologist/author, M.A., J.D.

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