“She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.” —Morgan Llywelyn, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish

My absolute favorite shadow work process is existential kink, created by Dr. Carolyn Elliott. She has an entire book on it that is excellent. This is a little different than classic shadow work. In classic shadow work, you’re acknowledging and accepting parts of yourself. Existential kink goes a step beyond that by bringing pleasure into it. So not

But what are we giving up if we’re only thinking about how many fucking humans we can fit on this planet? We’re giving up other animal species. We’re giving up jungles and forests

Stop reading Marxist literature and unfollow people spouting that money is bad and capitalism is causing the destruction of the planet. You can return to it in a few months, I promise. While you’re restacking your deck, be intentional about your inputs. Look for inspiration that it’s possible. Fill your RAS with examples of people doing radical wor

With the industrial mindset, everything is a tool for us to exploit.

We cannot SUSTAIN anymore. We couldn’t sustain in 2010. Sustainability is no longer enough. When something is so depleted, we can’t sustain. We can’t sustain when we’re living at the point of starvation. We can’t sustain a workload that’s running us into the ground. We can’t sustain a toxic relationship, no matter what communication skills we learn

From the industrial lens, our business is a way to extract money, not liberate society. Other Side Effects of the Industrial Revolution 1. Objectification: Everything and everyone is a tool to be used. 2. Limited resources: There’s no focus on renewal, so we need to grab up what’s available as quickly as possible (definitely before the next guy), o

the most important indicator in your safety today, and in an unknown future, is your community. And I’m talking your direct in-person neighbors.

There’s a part of the brain called the reticular activating system (RAS). Its whole job is to reinforce our deepest beliefs, often the ones we soaked up before we were seven years old.