Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And suddenly your level of concern feels very isolating.
It feels much larger than you can cope with because you are just one tiny person and
So it is important to keep focus, to keep in touch with, to keep your attention on the ways that other people do care.
to actively seek out communities, people, pages that show and give evidence for the fact that other people are concerned, other people are actively contributing, other people are helping, so that you don't only end up seeing the world as this negative place where you are the only good person.
Remember, the world is good because you are in it and you are good people.
Don't let yourself get buried under the sense that you are the only one who is living through these awful times and having the reactions you are.
Most people are feeling this way.
Most people are having the same worries as you are.
Talk to them about it.
Join them in like how they are striving to make things better.
basically more generally like be the change you know you probably can't influence world politics but you can carry you know the groceries up for your elderly neighbor you can donate your time you can spread seeds around your local community you can be kind to the people that you know and I do genuinely believe that that those small tangible acts do have big larger repercussions and
And psychologically, it doesn't matter if it changes nothing.
It matters in that it helps you.
When we feel overwhelmed by global issues, by future uncertainty, we often fall into a state of learned helplessness, the belief that nothing we do will make a difference.
And so we stopped trying all together, not just about global things, but about personal things and personal goals and personal decisions.
But small local action interrupts that pattern.
It restores a sense of agency.
Again, it restores a sense that like your behavior has an impact and that doesn't just help for you.
I don't know, our global fears, but it helps in that it lets us make long-term plans for the future because it makes us and it helps us believe that a future will be there.
It stops us from doing things that are impulsive, like overspending, doing things that are dangerous.
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