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Manuals offering advice to new parents on the topic of infant feeding have recently begun to attend to the possible implications of pro-breast-feeding discourses for mothers' subjective experiences, particularly with respect to guilt. In this article, we present a discursive analysis of focus groups with 35 Australian mothers in which we examine how mothers discuss their infant-feeding practices and their related subjective experiences. We focus on how the mothers draw upon notions of "guilt," "choice," and "emotional self-control" to attend to the possibility of moral judgment over their infant-feeding practices. We highlight a construction of choice that dramatically restricts permissible reasons for not breast-feeding one's infant and a pervasive view that guilt is a natural and appropriate response for "good" mothers who do not breast-feed. We argue that the incorporation of advice to mothers that they should "not feel guilty" is unrealistic in a context in which breast-feeding is so heavily advocated and that, rather than providing relief or comfort, this advice can create an additional burden for mothers who do not breast-feed. Finally, we reflect upon the implications of our findings in relation to the provision of public health information to women making choices around how to feed their infants.

People derive less solace from environments that become degraded or destroyed, which is an experience called solastalgia. In the wake of Australia's 2019–2020 bushfires, many Australians faced a markedly different natural environment: one, for example, charred by fire and void of the animals that once lived there. We examined experiences of solastalgia through individual, semi-structured interviews (N = 22) and a quantitative survey (N = 592) with members of bushfire-affected communities in Australia. In interviews, bushfire survivors described using environmental cues to understand and prepare for fire risk, and how environmental change led to emotions of sadness and frustration as well as personal and environmental regrowth and resilience. We also identified temporal aspects of solastalgia, including an anticipatory form distinguished by fears about future fires and environmental loss. Survey data showed that participants experiencing greater solastalgia reported higher symptoms of post-traumatic stress and anxiety, and feeling more anger and loss of control. Arid areas around the globe will be affected by bushfires of increasing intensity and frequency as the climate changes. Our findings provide timely insights into the likely psychological effects of such environmental change. • We report on solastalgia following lived experience of Australia's megafires. • For some, the distress had a temporal element we call anticipatory solastalgia. • Solastalgia also presents as a sense of betrayal about the unwanted change. • Solastalgia is experienced with greater symptoms of anxiety, PTSD, anger. • Community input to protect the environment is critical to protect wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]