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In Our Nature
Absolutely everything is interconnected in astonishing dynamic ways that we are only beginning to understand, including our mental and planetary wellbeing.
The In Our Nature explores these connections, along with the unseen but profoundly influential currents, systems, cycles, patterns, stories, and constructs that shape both our inner lives and the world around us.
Why are we the way we are? Why are we treating the world and each other in the ways we do? Why do we feel so rubbish? Is this in our nature? What's going on?
Join me, Siobhán Friel, your host and fellow wanderer, as we curiously fondle the places where environmental, societal, historical, ecological and mythological contexts meet and mingle.
The In Our Nature pod wants to shed light on the hidden connections and deeper patterns that are shaping this extraordinary time we are in, helping us see more clearly as we make our way forth. Come and join me.
Episodes
79 episodes
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 Connected or Something)
You know how we humans can fall apart or lose our sh*t when under too much pressure, stress, or neglect? Ever noticed that that’s what’s happening to our planet, too? The effects of biodiversity loss and climate breakdow...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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You Have a Radically Powerful (But Highly Misunderstood) Gift That Can Transform Your Experience of a World in Chaos
Ok, you want to know what your radically powerful (but highly misunderstood) gift that can transform your experience of a world in chaos is without listening to the whole epiosde? It's GRATITUDE. ...And if that feels like a disappo...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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40:10
This Myth About Human Nature Is Making Us Feel Anxious & Worthless (Oh, And Completely Wrecking Our Planet)
Today we are poking at the slimy, damaging myth of Homo Economicus—the cold, self-interested, rational creature that modern economics says we all are. This story has shaped our minds, relationships, structures, behaviours and planet...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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32:14
Why Are We Pretending Normal Life Is Fine When It’s Actually Very Unnatural and Weird?
This episode discusses lying in the foetal position in a dark room and the desire to drink gin during the day while hiding under a duvet. Can you relate? ‘Normal’ life has become rather peculiar, what with all of the ecosystem-destr...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:00
Imagination, Stories & Systems: The Forces Shaping These Times with Sarah Patterson of Common Earth
Looking for fascinating insights into the intersection of human behaviour and our planetary predicament? Curious about the connection between our stories and our systems? This one’s for you.My guest is Sarah Patterson: President of Co...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:11:05
"All Of This" (gestures around wildly) "Is Not in Our Nature"
Welcome to the first episode of In Our Nature, where we explore the invisible forces, currents and stories shaping our inner and outer worlds.In the episode today: - An intro to the pod, the questions we will ask and how it (an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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24:47
Introducing: In Our Nature
Absolutely everything is interconnected in astonishing dynamic ways that we are only beginning to understand. The In Our Nature explores these connections, along with the unseen but profoundly influential currents, systems, cycles, patterns, st...
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Season 2
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That Calm Mind You Yearn For? The Books, Courses, Coaching & Podcasts Might Not Be Helping (Including This One)
Today's episode is asking you to check in with yourself to see if the podcasts, courses, books and so on are helping with your enjoyment of life and your journey of less anxiety and more peace.And if not? I’m offering you a sneaky exit.&...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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“We Have an Inner Compass to Guide Us Through an Uncertain Future” With Rebecca Gardner
Today I am joined by Certified Change Coach, meditation teacher, loving mother and delightful human Rebecca Gardner.Becca guides people in transforming their relationship with their minds and came to the work she now does through her own...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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How Innocent Little Words Contribute to Big, Prickly Thought-Stories
Today we're poking at the power of teeny, innocent-seeming words in creating enormous, perilous towers of thought stories. Join me to meander through:My research project on inner peace and how it led to a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
In today's episode we are exploring how our concepts of mental health and illness are not fixed truths but socially constructed ideas. What’s normal and what’s not is made up via thought and is always changing. Those with a diagnosi...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times
You know how we say that peace and wellbeing are our true nature? Well, have you ever wondered why we are living in times of perilous uncertainty, unprecedented inequality, lack of trust, and political, social and ecological breakdown, not to m...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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That Always-Tired Feeling: Thought Problem, Body Problem, or Something Else?
Tired? Yep. Seems many of us are struggling with tiredness as the speed of society gathers pace each year. This episode is about 34 minutes. Take a nap and we'll wake you at the end. There's nothing new here. You know it all already. You just d...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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How That Anxious, Restless, Unsettled Feeling Is Originally Created (Clue: It’s Nothing to Do with You)
It's the first episode back after the summer break and I can't wait to talk about horrid feelings with you. Join me for an exploration on the birth and evolution of anxious, restless, unsettled feelings, and how understanding this h...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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How to Answer Your Own Questions When Everything Is Confusing and Weird
Join me to explore how we can answer our questions, solve our problems and get clarity and guidance from within.We often want to seek guidance and counsel from others when we're unsure of the way forward, but getting a feel for our own i...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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'The Limitless Potential that Lies Beyond Our Habitual Thinking' with Sarah Armitage and Michelle McCartan
What an honour to have Sarah Armitage and Michelle McCartan as my special guests on the Inner Peace & Other Cool Shit podcast.Both Sarah and Michelle are masterful coaches and facilitators with their own practices working with leader...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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"The Peace & Calm You Want Is Right There....Really" with Lisa Esile
I loved having Lisa Esile as my special guest on the Inner Peace & Other Cool Shit podcast. As well as being a writer and author, Lisa specialises in helping people navigate challenges, unders...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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"But My Problems Create My Thoughts, So How Does This Stuff Even Help Me?"
Have you ever been musing on the inside-out nature of the human experience and thought..."Feelings come from thoughts, so you say? OK. Maybe. But my thoughts come from the problems in my life anyway. So how does all this stuff about unde...
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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From the Archives: Your Experience Is Always Moving (And Why This Matters)
I'm plucking a popular early episode out of the archives, dusting it off and serving it with a side of my fresh-this-morning opinion. Everything is always changing: out there in the world and inside you. Our thoughts, feelings, moo...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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The Ordinary, Everyday Clues That Reveal Our Anxiety-Busting Powers (That We Completely Ignore)
Today we are taking a look at the cool clues and hidden hints in everyday life that point to our human design...and why we ignore them or miss them to live in suffering instead!Join me to explore:The incredible powers that we...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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"We Will Always, Always Find Our Way Back" With Erika Bugbee
How wonderful to have Erika Bugbee as my special guest on the Inner Peace & Other Cool Shit podcast. Erika specialises in working with teens, young adults, and parents through her globa...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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Anxiety Freedom: Big Fat Myths Debunked (Part 2)
Please join me for the second part of our exploration into myths and misconceptions around having less anxiety and more peace. We'll cover:An example of my human brain being a silly billy recently A quick r...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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From the Archives: Your Brain Is (Still) Just Being a Brain
I'm plucking a popular early episode out of the vault, dusting it off and serving it like an aged cheese. For those that haven't heard this one, join me-from-ages-ago to explore:The normal ways a brain behaves
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Your Feelings Don't Need an Explanation, Cause or Reason
We humans love to match our feelings with a thing out there in the outside world, don't we? And no wonder - all of society is set up to reinforce that other people, events, things and situations cause our feelings. But what...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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