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In Our Nature
Why do we feel so overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected and lost...and what does that have to do with what's happening on our planet?
This show explores the hidden connections and deeper patterns that are forming our inner struggles and the wider crises unfolding around us. From mental health to ecological collapse, productivity culture to planetary grief, from burnout to reconnection, join me to poke around in the stories, systems and patterns shaping this extraordinary time...
...and then let's riff on what becomes possible when we stop pretending it’s fine and feel the feels.
Your host is me: Siobhán Friel. I'm a mental health practitioner, a Work That Reconnects facilitator and I was probably a lavender plant in a past life.
This podcast offers a way to make sense of your inner and outer world, especially if you were shaped by capitalism (like me) and not by a lineage of ecological literacy, love and wisdom.
You haven't missed the boat. There are many boats and this is one. Get in.
In Our Nature
Are You Feeling Your Feelings … or THINKING Your Feelings? (And Why Your Answer Really Matters)
Most of the people I work with think they know how to feel their feelings. They are feeling their feelings all the time, they tell me. But many of them are wrong. Are you wrong?
I was totally wrong.
Because many of us are not feeling our feelings. We are THINKING our feelings.
And the distinction really, really matters, now more than ever, as our planet faces challenges of an unprecedented entangled scale.
Join me to explore:
- How our modern culture (including therapy, coaching, and spirituality) teaches us to think our feelings
- Why it matters if we are thinking feelings and not feeling them and how to know if you are doing it
- How coaches like me perpetuate this disembodied, intellectualised relationship with our feelings (clue: it’s innocent! Promise! But still happening)
- How our western culture elevates thought over feeling: I’m calling it Thought Supremacy and how this invisibly runs through education, healthcare, modern forms of spirituality and so much else
- See how feelings are often treated as inconvenient or irrational and something to overcome rather than be with (and how that contributes to us not feeling them)
- And see why all of this matters for times like now, when this disconnection between mind and body mirrors disconnection from the earth and each other
Mentioned or relevant:
- Get support or guidance from me here
- I totally forgot to convene with my reluctant co-host, Nature, on this one. I wonder what her song would have been?
- Not a single swear world! In fact, I say HOLY MOLY when I definitely meant to say HOLY SH…..y’know, the other one.
- The people I work with are using this as a companion resource at the moment: An Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
- If you’d like updates and invitations, pop yourself on to my Friends List
- I write on Substack too—come hang out there if you wanna.
- Everything I do is by donation or gift. You can donate to support my work here if you want (thank you, amazing person)
Gosh what a stupendous amount of links.
Thank you so much for being with me today. You are the apple to my core 🍎
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