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Waking up to our extraordinary times

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Part II: The Connecting ⚡️💡
The second part of The Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
How to Explain Your Terrible Sense of Fear & Dread to Someone Who Really Doesn’t Seem to Care
Why you feel it and why they might not (and what to do next if you need a thing to do)
Part I: The Cracking 〰️ ⧷ ⧄
Part I of The Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
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Why You Might Be Feeling a Bit Crazy: The Maddening Paradoxes of our Time
Listen now (42 mins) | Today we’re talking about the most fundamental of cosmic laws.
What A Crack Fox Can Show Us About Ourselves & Society
Yes: a Crack Fox.
32:00
Why Are We Pretending Normal Life Is Fine When It’s Actually Very Unnatural and Weird?
Listen now (32 mins) | This episode discusses lying in the foetal position in a dark room and the desire to drink gin during the day while hiding under…
24:47
"All Of This" (gestures around wildly) "Is Not in Our Nature"
Listen now (25 mins) | Welcome to the first episode of In Our Nature, where we explore the invisible forces, currents and stories shaping our inner and…
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Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times
Listen now (49 mins) | You know how we say that peace and wellbeing are our true nature?

Reconnecting with life, self & the other earthlings

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Your Bones Are Borrowed From Mountains (& Other Important Reminders Worth Putting Our Phones Down, Perhaps, For One Darn Minute?)
We are literally little fragments of the cosmos but here we are, rotting in front of screens, hostages to a planet-shredding neoliberal agenda by a…
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Why It Matters to See Yourself as the Fuzzy Little Ape-Like Earth Child That You Are
Come, my fellow caged creature, and allow me to remind you of something pretty bloody vital
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What Nature Can Teach Us About ....Worrying
📝 Mentions: Hereditary worry; pretending to be Power Rangers; chasing cats; a world that's lost the f-word plot; rivers and leaves; Kahurangi National…
35:26
It's In Our Nature to Unravel & Collapse (& Why Seeing This Can Actually Help Anxiety)
Listen now (42 mins) | Today we’re talking about the most fundamental of cosmic laws.
How Not Being a Greedy Plonker Is Great for Our Mental Health (& the Planet)
📝 Mentions: The connection between humans and the earth; me crying because my cat gave me 'a look'; coral; algae; sea urchins; plonkers; doritos; kelp…
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Why We Need The Anxious, Overwhelmed, Sensitive Overthinkers. Right Now. Exactly As You Are. Please Come
Listen now (42 mins) | If you relate to being anxious, sensitive, easily overwhelmed or always overthinking every darn thing....this is my call to you.
To the Anxious, Sensitive, Easily Overwhelmed Overthinkers: An Open Letter From Nature
I made you like this one purpose. Don't be like the others.
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On the Solstice, Emergence, and When Change Is Hard & Cold
And why you might (just might) wanna keep going, even when it feels pointless and shit

The unravelling of systems & stories

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How to Get Your Citizens to Think They Are The Problem (& Not You): A Cheat Sheet for Psychotic Systems
Making your people blame themselves for your systemic and structural psychosis will help you scale. You got this
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The Profound Gifts That Only Collapse & Breaking Down Can Reveal
Listen now (37 mins) | Join me for part two of our conversation on collapse, unravelling and breakdown.
Given What I Know About the Unravelling of Practically Everything...Do I Still Want Cake?
This is a very complex, important question and we need to be talking about it
What A Crack Fox Can Show Us About Ourselves & Society
Yes: a Crack Fox.
39:10
What Happens When the Space We Need for Our Mental Wellbeing Is Being Sold off to the Highest Bidder?
If you feel like your mind, car, house, desk, local supermarket and —everywhere, actually, come to think of it— is chaotic, cluttered, full and busy…
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What a Weird Coincidence That Both Our Mental Health and the Earth’s Systems Are More Fragile Than Ever (It’s Like We Are Intimately…
Listen now (39 mins) | You know how we humans can fall apart or lose our sh*t when under too much pressure, stress, or neglect?
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This Myth About Human Nature Is Making Us Feel Anxious & Worthless (Oh, And Completely Wrecking Our Planet)
Listen now (32 mins) | Today we are poking at the slimy, damaging myth of Homo Economicus—the cold, self-interested, rational creature that modern…
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We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
Listen now (45 mins) | In today's episode we are exploring how our concepts of mental health and illness are not fixed truths but socially constructed…

All the feels: anxiety, overwhelm, grief, despair...

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Thanks, But We Don't Actually Need to 'Embrace' Uncertainty
Despite the whole of the internet saying we should
That Mean Voice In Your Head Is Not You. It's Just a Goblin
Explains a lot, actually
Given What I Know About the Unravelling of Practically Everything...Do I Still Want Cake?
This is a very complex, important question and we need to be talking about it
The Most Helpful Thing You Can Do to Stop Overthinking Right now...is Also the Most Annoying
📝 Mentions (not in order): Clever brains; the f-word once; paradoxes; the overthinking loop; a tiny, dubious mention of 'mindfulness'; vegans; a…
On the Solstice, Emergence, and When Change Is Hard & Cold
And why you might (just might) wanna keep going, even when it feels pointless and shit
41:52
Why You Never, Ever Feel Good Enough (Even Though You Are Somewhat Amazing)
Listen now (42 mins) | We’re poking our sticky fingers into the feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy that so many of us carry.
Lessons From Toddlers On Handling Our Own Anxiety
📝 Mentions: Children; wax; butter; reclaiming meltdowns; anxiety (multiple times); not getting run over by a car; the creativity-crushing influence of…
The 20 (At Least) Types of Rest We Need
📝 Mentions: Pie, crying in the baking aisle (not related to the pie), thinly-disguised disdain (bordering on fury) for elements of our society that…
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