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This week on The Tiny Pod I share an episode from Tiny Pod Patreon, About Shame.Shame underscores and is entangled in so much of what we explore here on The Tiny Pod - dominance, enough, accountability, certainty. Carl Jung writes, “Shame is a soul-eating emotion.” Unexamined shame is protected outward, children internalise their parents shame and the generational loop of shame continues. Intimacy requires the vulnerability and courage to be seen. Shame tells us to hide, making true relationship with others, and with ourself, impossible.It is often those carrying the most shame who behave as if they have none, shamelessly.I hope you enjoy the episode, and look forward to seeing you over at Patreon.Miranda x

This week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Plagiarism, in honour of Dr Jason Arday.Plagiarism originally meant kidnapper, child stealer, it was used to describe someone who kidnapped children or slaves, or sold free people into slavery. The word evolved to mean literary theft when the Roman poet Martial described Fidentinus as a kidnapper of his words, his brainchildren.There is no original ground zero thought, we are all walking compilations of the experiences, art, literature, films, environment and people that surround us. The opposite of plagiarism is not originality, it is honesty. Plagiarism is copying the exact style and formation of another without attribution, it is in the concealment and dishonesty.We are all part of a collective and when we share freely we build on what has come before to create something new, we see further "standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton wrote.Weekly episodes of the Tiny Pod can be found at:🔗 https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPodSee you there,Miranda x

This week I share with you an episode from The Tiny Pod on Patreon, about Enough. Full episodes of my weekly podcast can be found every Monday at: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPodAbundance without a sense of enough becomes blind consumption. Enough is not a quantity, it is a choice. Examining what external standards we have internalised helps us reclaim our values and live by what matters to us personally, rather than constantly pursuing what others want.Feeling enough is rooted in self-worth; no amount of anything can buy a feeling we don't already have, and when we truly feel enough, everything we have becomes more than enough, a bonus, overflowing and free to be shared. Feeling enough lets us love others fully without conditions, give freely without ledgers and live now, not later, when.I hope you enjoy this bonus episode and look forward to interacting more deeply over on Patreon.Love,Miranda x

This episode is shared from The Tiny Pod on Patreon.Weekly episodes of The Tiny Pod can be found at https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTinyPodThis week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Law, in honour of the courageous Filton 25, particularly those sentenced wrongfully as "terrorists." Throughout history, social justice moved faster than law, and laws were only changed because ordinary people united, and courageously spoke truth to power. Abolitionists were executed for speaking out against slavery, the suffragettes were imprisoned, tortured, force fed and suffered life long injuries, the SS arrested and tortured families sheltering Jewish families, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, all because they broke laws because they believed in a higher law, and in humanity more than legislation.Witnessing more than 3400 ordinary people in Britain being arrested and detained for holding up bits of cardboard reveals that law and justice are not the same thing, and power has not learnt from history. Law and justice are not the same thing. The Law asks what can be enforced, humanity asks what is the most loving thing to do. History is often where injustice is revealed most glaringly.Law can grant a divorce, but it cannot heal a broken heart, and the disparity between legal resolution and emotional resolution is often enormous.When we are internally guided by values, morals, truth and honesty, the need for external laws falls away. Moral law and government law are often directly opposed, but it is in bridging this gap, and in examining our own values, that we can build a world on fairness, and equality, instead of one dominated by power, technicalities, distorted truths and ledgers.See you next week,Miranda x

This article was written last year, and rejected by establishment media so I have chosen to share it here in light of Kemi Badenoch’s dangerous article in The Times. She fails to reference all the reports and reviews :Scarman Report, Lammy Review, IPCC review, IOPC and internal reviews, Baroness Casey Report, Dr Shereen Daniel’s Race Action Plan.. she does however mention the Macpherson inquiry in an attempt to weaken it and reverse the progress it made. She calls for an “independent review” while failing to reference all the reviews and reports that have consistently revealed institutional racism in the police and the Police’s culture of self- protectionism.The met police alone receive an annual budget of over £4.6billion and yet everyone interviewed for this article has experiences of ineffective policing. In fact I am yet to hear one story of successful policing. Ever.The statistics show the same:- only 6.6% of domestic abuse cases ever result in charges- 2.9% of burglaries ever have any action- 0.69% of car thefts are ever even looked into- 0.6% of personal theft ever leads to tangible actionSo what do the police actually do? Who do they protect and serve? Baroness Casey observed they are “long on activity, but short on action.” I see no action at all.