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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
Shedding the Stories That No Longer Make Sense (Even When It's Hard & Lonely)
In a horrifying-but-necessary act of intimacy, I am inviting you to join me on a journey of shedding in today’s episode
Nature shows us that death is food. Decay is enrichment for what’s next.
What is dying in you? What needs to be shed, to make space for life?
Join me for:
- An update on my own journey since the last major one 18 months ago, and how it helps people waking up to the entangled systemic breakdown of systems and structures we see now
- (If you’re new to me and all this, you can catch that in the epiosde: An Update For These Extraordinarily Precarious Times)
- What I’ve learned from living between stories…the dominant cultural narrative of individualism and control, and the suppressed, ancient, interconnected wisdom that is undeniably calling me home
- Why I am shedding my old roles, narratives, and professional orientations and what this actually means
- The ongoing implications of realising that my work, and the mental health/coaching/self-help-industrial complex at large often (innocently) upholds the very systems that are driving destruction of the planet
- How the dominant story itself makes us feel like we don't belong in the new one, keeping us isolated, lonely, and stuck
- What a family-wide neurodivergence diagnosis journey, deep ecology, Celtic cosmologies, exploration of Te Ao Māori and a natal moon in my 8th whole sign house of Aquarius has to do with any of this
Mentioned or relevant:
Article
That Shitty But Necessary Part Where Everything Shatters and Nothing Makes Sense
Episodes:
Are You Feeling Your Feelings … or THINKING Your Feelings? (And Why Your Answer Really Matters)
What Happens When Our Spiritual Grounding & Our Meaning-Making Frameworks for Life Stop...Helping?
- This episode has the f word in it but I needed it.
- I have lovely things happening in Aotearoa, Australia or online coming up in the next few months…head here for details and registration.
- Get support or guidance from me here
- 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 comforting squawk of my favourite waterbird 🪿
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