Your Body is Sacred

Part 1 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.

Today, you likely work more than three hours per day for your wages and then also tend to your basic needs such as buying and cooking food, doing your laundry, paying your bills, and squeezing in some rest here and there. Your life may be full of joy and peace, and I truly hope that it is, but in my ideal world, the work that you love to do would be done because you want it to be, not because you have no other means by which to live.

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The Lushness of Discomfort

What does a clothesline have to do with doing your good work? A lot, actually. In this 100th podcast episode, I share an overview of the late Summer/Virgo season, how you can re-conceptualize comfort and discomfort, and some new ways that you can stretch into a richer life right now.

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Living Ancestry, with Magda Permut and Molly Klekamp

What we’ve inherited from our ancestors is always alive within us, even when we feel disconnected from the wise ones who came before us and will come after us. In this episode with trauma therapists and deep thinkers Molly Klekamp and Magda Permut, we explore heritage, colonialism, somatics and more.

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Renew Your Courage, with Norther Emily

Being out in wild spaces, especially when we’re alone, can bring up so much fear. But just on the other side of that fear is a life that’s in touch with something much greater than our concrete culture. Norther Emily is a writer and wilderness guide, and in our conversation, we explore her own journey into this work, how to build your own competency, and how to renew your courage.

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Wildness, Work, and Pre-history, with Peter Michael Bauer

How did our pre-civilization ancestors "work"? What does it mean to be held captive to capitalism, and can we find ways to be more free? In this very rich conversation with anthropologist and rewilding catalyst Peter Michael Bauer, we address these questions and discuss:

*Where we are in the cycles of decline and the collapse of civilization (and why collapse can be a good thing)
*What “work” looked like for our hunter gatherer ancestors
*How we can bring our adaptive, wild nature into the contexts and communities we live in today

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On Your Own, But Not By Yourself, with Sasha Davies

Change is one of life’s greatest challenges, and it can also be a primary source of isolation. While no one can walk our paths for us, we can most certainly be accompanied. In this conversation with Sasha Davies, we explore her varied professional journey, the ins and outs of her work as a writer, and what she’s learned about major life transitions such as menopause.

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