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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
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 little tangent on the power of words
- How seeing the creation of Big Collective Thought releases you from taking your personal, individual thought too seriously
- Exploring how casual historical labels can shape our modern thinking
- Noticing how the recency bias in historical narratives has implications on societal values and norms in the present day (including around productivity, anxiety and progress)
- Links between this and our individual experiences of inadequacy, stress, worry and overwhelm.
- The freedom that comes with recognising how thought patterns are shaped beyond your control - and how seeing your innocence in this can unclip you from your own inadequacies
- Several questionable analogies
- 'Nothingburger' is used on the show for the first time
- Anxious Alice is in a sulk
Mentioned:
Episosde: We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
Episosde: Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times
Episosde: How That Anxious, Restless, Unsettled Feeling Is Originally Created (Clue: It’s Nothing to Do with You)
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