Offers guidance for transforming fears about environmental issues into useful forces in individual lives, advocating the taking of small, constructive steps toward handling problems that seem beyond our control, and maintaining hope.

Introduction. --Trauma. One: SOS : the tidal wave -- Denial. Two: Even God can't sink this ship : shock and disbelief -- Three: Our foundering Ship of State : America, America -- Awareness to action. Four: Learning to swim : awareness, pain, acceptance, and action -- Five: Finding shipmates : our coalition, Nov. 2010-May 2011 -- Resilient coping. Six: Sailing on : new healthy normal -- Seven: All hands on deck : appoint yourself -- Eight: The whoosh factor : the wisdom of groups -- Nine: The changing tides : our coalition, June 2011-Aug. 2011 -- The transcendent response. Ten: The vast sea around us : interconnection, deep time, and bliss -- Eleven: The darkening skies : our coalition, Sept. 2011-May 2012 -- Twelve: The rolling waves : hope as a process -- Acknowledgments. -- Suggested reading. -- Index.