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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
The Profound Gifts That Only Collapse & Breaking Down Can Reveal
Join me for part two of our conversation on collapse, unravelling and breakdown. It’s way better than it sounds, promise. This one has gifts and treasures! But, it also has some hard stuff, so listen only if you feel up to it.
Included in the episode...
- A reminder that collapse and breakdown aren't failures, but actually a fundamental part of nature’s cycles — whether we’re talking about ecological, social, financial collapse, or your own inner mental breakdown (been there)
- The massive blind spots in self-help, coaching, and therapy when it comes to collapse
- The incredible gifts that await when we courageously face material truths that are obscured from us in everyday life by dominant narratives and interests
- The ways our ancestors were way better prepared for this than we are (and what we can learn from them)
- The hidden capacities you already have for resilience, adaptation, and finding meaning amidst the incredulous unraveling that we see around us.
There are so many podcasts and so little units of our human energy. This isn’t for everyone. You might need something else, or total silence.
But, at your discretion, listen if…
- You’re tired, overwhelmed, and literally sick of life feeling like a race you didn’t sign up for. You don’t even like races. You wanna lie down.
- You need a reminder that you’re not a failure at life for not keeping up Ana ‘managing’: you’re actually responding appropriately to an spectacularly unbalanced and life denying system (so…yay?)
- You think you need discipline and willpower when really, you need rest, nourishment, community, and a world that maybe isn’t on fire?
- You’re grappling with big, difficult emotions about the state of your inner and/or outer world and you find me somewhat of a kindred spirit (I totally am, hi friend 👋🏼)
Mentioned:
Part one of this conversation: It's In Our Nature to Unravel & Collapse (& Why Seeing This Can Actually Help Anxiety)
Where I talk about context a ton: "All Of This" (gestures around wildly) "Is Not in Our Nature"
Where I talk about us mirroring earth responses: 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)
The one where I talk about The Work That Reconnects: You Have a Radically Powerful (But Highly Misunderstood) Gift That Can Transform Your Experience of a World in Chaos
The episode also invites your questions and views about your experiences of the insufficiency or lack of support from your spiritual, therapeutic and philosophical paradigms, tools and communities. Contact me here for that.
If you’d like updates and invitations, hop on to my Friends List.
I write on Substack too—come hang out there if you wanna.
Gosh what a lot of links
Thanks for listening. You're the the glistening dew drop on a baby fern 💧
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