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EPISODE · Aug 9, 2025 · 35 MIN

Shedding the Stories That No Longer Make Sense (Even When It's Hard & Lonely)

from In Our Nature · host Siobhán Friel

In a horrifying-but-necessary act of intimacy, I am inviting you to join me on a journey of shedding in today’s episodeNature shows us that death is food. Decay is enrichment for what’s next. What is dying in you? What needs to be shed, to make space for life?Join me for:An update on my own journey since the last major one 18 months ago, and how it helps people waking up to the entangled systemic breakdown of systems and structures we see now(If you’re new to me and all this, you can catch that in the epiosde: An Update For These Extraordinarily Precarious Times)What I’ve learned from living between stories…the dominant cultural narrative of individualism and control, and the suppressed, ancient, interconnected wisdom that is undeniably calling me homeWhy I am shedding my old roles, narratives, and professional orientations and what this actually meansThe ongoing implications of realising that my work, and the mental health/coaching/self-help-industrial complex at large often (innocently) upholds the very systems that are driving destruction of the planet How the dominant story itself makes us feel like we don't belong in the new one, keeping us isolated, lonely, and stuckWhat a family-wide neurodivergence diagnosis journey, deep ecology, Celtic cosmologies, exploration of Te Ao Māori and a natal moon in my 8th whole sign house of Aquarius has to do with any of this Mentioned or relevant:ArticleThat Shitty But Necessary Part Where Everything Shatters and Nothing Makes SenseEpisodes:You Have a Radically Powerful (But Highly Misunderstood) Gift That Can Transform Your Experience of a World in ChaosThe Transformative, Luminous Power of Honouring Our Pain: with Kathleen Rude & The Work That ReconnectsAre You Feeling Your Feelings … or THINKING Your Feelings? (And Why Your Answer Really Matters)What Happens When Our Spiritual Grounding & Our Meaning-Making Frameworks for Life Stop...Helping?This episode has the f word in it but I needed it. I have lovely things happening in Aotearoa, Australia or online coming up in the next few months…head here for details and registration. Get support or guidance from me hereEverything I do is by donation or gift. You can donate to support my work here if you want (thank you, amazing person)Gosh what a stupendous amount of links.Thank you so much for being with me today. You are the comforting squawk of my favourite waterbird 🪿

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In a horrifying-but-necessary act of intimacy, I am inviting you to join me on a journey of shedding in today’s episode Nature shows us that death is food. Decay is enrichment for what’s next. What is dying in you? What needs to be shed, to make space for life? Join me for: An update on my own journey since the last major one 18 months ago, and how it helps people waking up to the entangled systemic breakdown of systems and structures we see now(If you’re new to me and all this, you can...

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