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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
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 disappointing, damp, dribbly answer....then this episode is especially for you.
Today we’re revealing gratitude as the profound, fierce, and life-affirming force that connects us to the world around us and NOT the superficial, commodified version many of us in the West grew up with.
True gratitude is an enlivening power that counters the emotional fallout of these bewildering times of environmental, mental and social degradation.
We’ll cover:
- How true gratitude has been stripped of its deeper meaning in consumerist culture and sold back to us as a shallow practice
- The implications of this watered-down version of gratitude—how it became just another performative task, often leaving us feeling more inadequate and sh*t
- How the pressure to be grateful for the trappings of modern life has masked the deeper sources of life and well-being ...leaving us more disconnected from nature and each other
- How practicing gratitude is an act of resistance in a world that pushes us toward disconnection, apathy, and scarcity
- How real gratitude connects us to each other and the larger web of life...and why this matters especially now
- Paradigm-changing people who help us see the power of true gratitude such as Robin Wall Kimmerer and Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects
- The role of gratitude in mental health and our experiences with anxiety
Mentioned:
Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects
Robin Wall Kimmerer and her book, Braiding Sweetgrass
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Thanks for being with me today. You rock.
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