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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.
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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