“Only when power becomes worried about its survival does it react. Appealing to its better nature is useless. It doesn’t have one.” If you’re not meeting opposition, that usually means you’re just perpetuating the status quo.

Tell a better story Edit your narratives about the human experience and your life. Tell a story of integration, meaning, and activism. Practice narrative medicine with new perspectives on injury and illness. The cure for bad stories is better stories.

We’ve built entire industries and massive layers of infrastructure specifically for the purpose of easing the burdens of survival, exposure, and physical movement. But now our success is beginning to look like a Pyrrhic victory; we’ve beaten back the forces of nature, but in the process, we’ve very nearly defeated our own health. This brings us to

“We are on our guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.”

But today, the warrior finds herself in a uniquely perplexing situation, especially in relationship to her home culture and the ways of her own people. She may even find herself at odds with the very people and culture that she is called to protect.

But over the years, my path began to turn in some surprising ways. As I looked deeper into the human experience, I came to realize that health is far bigger than I had supposed. Far more than a matter of diet and exercise, it’s about continuity with larger life processes of tribe, nature, and culture.

But when you get right down to it, the thing that’s really destroying our home and our future is a story.

we’ll drift further and further away from our true, physical nature.

Force your pet to live in isolation for a few weeks and you’ll see some serious behavior problems. There’s nothing wrong with your dog. The problem is with his world.