When Weather Finally Speaks

(A Nature Insights Therapy Session) 

Welcome back, eco-enthusiasts. Today, Nature Insights is hosting an emergency therapy session, not for humans, but for something far more stressed: the Weather. 

This month, as complaints about “unusual weather” flood our timelines faster than our streets, we decided to do the responsible thing: book Weather a therapy session. Not to fix it, but to finally listen. 

Once predictable, politely seasonal, and rarely invited into policy discussions, Weather has recently been labeled moody, unusual, and out of control. Floods arrive where forests once stood. Heatwaves linger where shade was paved away. Storms raise their voices after years of being politely ignored. 

So we did the responsible thing.  

We booked a session. 

No forecasts. No denial. Just an honest conversation between a therapist and a force shaped by every choice humanity pretends not to remember. 

Please note: the couch may flood, the windows may rattle, and accountability may cause discomfort. 

Nature Insights (Therapist): Welcome, Weather. Please take a seat, if you’re comfortable staying in one form. 

Weather: I’ll try. No promises. Stability makes humans suspicious anyway. 

Nature Insights: Fair enough. So… why are you angry? 

Weather: Angry? No. I’m reactive. You keep calling me “unusual.” I call it the consequences. 

Nature Insights: Consequences of? 

Weather: Deforestation with a development ribbon. Fossil fuels with inspirational speeches. Rivers are treated like trash bins and then blamed for overflowing. 

Nature Insights: People say they’re shocked when disasters happen. 

Weather: That’s my favorite part. “This flood was unexpected,” they say, while standing on land that used to be a wetland. 

Nature Insights: Do you feel misunderstood? 

Weather: Constantly. I give heat warnings ignored. I send gentle rain unnoticed. Then I raise my voice, and suddenly I’m “violent.” 

Nature Insights: Humans claim you’ve become unpredictable. 

Weather: Coming from a species that plans cities without drainage and calls urbanization? That’s rich. 

Nature Insights: Some argue it’s just a natural cycle. 

Weather: Yes. And humans are now part of that cycle. Congratulations. You’ve been promoted. 

Nature Insights: If you could say one thing to them, what would it be? 

Weather: Stop asking why I’m changing. Start asking how you are. 

Nature Insights: That sounds… uncomfortable. 

Weather: Growth usually is. 

(A sudden gust rattles the windows. Distant thunder interrupts the session.) 

Nature Insights: I think we’re running out of time  

Weather: Happens when lessons are delayed. 

Session note: Therapy session ends early due to a sudden storm. 

(The room grows darker. The wind doesn’t wait for permission.) 

Nature Insights (quietly, closing the notebook): We end today’s session without a resolution—but with clarity. 

Weather was never the villain of this story.  It was messenger. The mirror. The reaction. 

Outside, the storm continues, not out of anger, but out of memory. Every tree removed. Every river narrowed. Every warning postponed. Weather didn’t forget. 

Session note: Therapy concluded early due to a sudden storm.  

Follow-up recommended for humans. 

Until next time, remember: Weather doesn’t need fixing.. 

Our relationship with it does. 

And storms don’t arrive unannounced. They arrive unheard.