Wild Sacred Journey Podcast

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.Coming to you direct from a dreamy new moon and mercury retrograde in Pisces, this video is not pithy. Sorry, not sorry (both my Sun and Mercury are in Pisces so you get what you get right now).It’s an invitation to challenge where empire sneaks into wellness, spirituality, ancestral reconnection, and personal/ intuitive development spaces.It’s a reminder that everything is relationship, not resource. That not all growth is linear and expansive. That it’s easier to break ourselves (and others) open than it is to know what to do with the fruitful discomfort of unbecoming. But knowing what to do with the light that enters through the cracks, with the seismic shifts that want to uproot and upend us, is key to staying human. To making something of beauty with our lives. To letting our experiences - “good” and “bad” - become medicine for ourselves and the world.Whether you join me and OracleFest for Grounding the Charge or not, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Does this speak to your experience at all?Feel free to share as a comment. I’d welcome hearing it.And if you want to join us live on Mar 21, 2026 or find the recording later: https://oraclefest.com/grounding-the-charge/If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________________[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine (including bespoke 1:1 mentoring):www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.A few weeks ago during the lunar eclipse, I “saw” a pattern that was playing out in my life more clearly than I’d been able to articulate it until then. I could feel that the frequency of the pattern was a better fit for the light waves of a shadowy moon. That particular type of light was necessary to get the clarity I needed.A couple of days ago, I heard that a company in the U.S. is petitioning the FCC to launch mirrored satellites into space - enough of them to be capable of lighting up the dark side of the planet. They’re calling it solar-on-demand and claiming it will solve our energy crisis because we could power solar farms and light cities and streets at night, with as much light as three full moons.To live in a creature body is to be responsive to the natural world. And light is one of those elemental Holy Beings who wears different faces at different times and carries different teachings, challenges, and supports depending.What do we lose if we attempt to homogenize ourselves into perpetual, controlled light?Those are some of the musings I unpack a bit more in this video.What do you think?Feel free to share as a comment. I’d welcome hearing it.If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________________P.S. Embodying a New Paradigm is a new monthly gathering I’m offering to bridge our inner work with the outer work these times are asking of us. It’s a place to tend to where we’ve internalized the same forces that seek to sever us from our creature selves and benefit from us trying to live like machines. We’ll explore tending to this internalized empire so we can find our way back to our creature selves and embody that on a deeper level - sending loving kindness out into a hurting, lost, and confused world. Join us? https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/embodying-a-new-paradigmP.P.S. I’m continuing to work on the Living as Creature, Not Machine course. It’s a process of letting it show me what it wants to become and it’s taking it’s time. [for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine (including bespoke 1:1 mentoring):www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.I was surprised this morning, while checking in with friend and colleague Jenn Balijko of Always on My Way, to discover that the energy of this lunar new year and solar eclipse was different than what I had been imagining it might feel like. Still potent, yes. But I was feeling the potency in a very different way and different place in my body.And that got me questioning everything.Do we even know what the Chinese cultural context for the Fire Horse is, or are we adding our western pre-conceived ideas to it?What lunar new year celebrations might I find in my own ancestral lineage?And what might both Fire and Horse, as ancestors and teachers in their own rights, have to teach me beyond my post-industrial, empire-trained way of attaching meaning to them, imaging them, and relating to them?Those are some of the musings I unpack a bit more in this video.What do you think?Feel free to share as a comment. I’d welcome hearing it.If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________________P.S. I’m hoping the self-paced course I've been working on, full of practical exercises and skills, to support your journey back to being creature-not-machine again will be ready to go by the end of the month. P.P.S. In the meantime, and in honor of Lunar New Year, Insight 2026 is back again briefly and available to purchase for five days only. It’s tarot divination for you and your 2026, to offer you some spirit-led guidance and orientation when navigating uncharted territory or you know you can’t continue with “business as usual” but aren’t sure what to do next. People who got theirs back in Dec and early Jan are reporting it’s been soothing, affirming, and helping them a lot. Once this week is up, the offer won’t be back again until 2027).https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/insight-tarot-for-2026-lny[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.Is there a difference between animism and anthropormorphism and why does it matter?I would submit: yes - there is a difference.One maintains stories human supremacy and offers a false sense of comfort, a way of trying to tame the world down into something as small as we are.And the other… well, the other acknowledges how small we are, how challenging the world can be. But it also offers a deeper sense of belonging and kinship.One holds us as not-creature. The other helps us be creatures.By this point, you can probably guess which I’ll choose!What do you think? Can you feel the difference? Feel free to share as a comment. I’d welcome hearing it.If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________________P.S. I’m hoping the self-paced course I've been working on, full of practical exercises and skills, to support your journey back to being creature-not-machine again will be ready to go by the end of the month. P.P.S. In the meantime, I’m also running a five-day flash sale of Insight 2026 (divination through tarot cards to give you something to orient by through the coming year) in honor of the Lunar New Year. Feb 16th-21st. If you’re wondering what guidance the Otherworld has for you at this moment in your life and our shared history, this might be just the thing. https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/insight-tarot-for-2026-lny[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.We find ourselves at the cross-quarter threshold between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox - the beginning of the light half of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Celtic tradition, it’s marked in a harvest celebration known as Imbolc (Imbolg) which translates out to “in the belly” - a nod to the beginning of the lambing season and the stirrings beginning in the pregnant belly of the Earth. It’s also a time to celebrate the transition (or, in some stories, the rebirth) from the Cailleach of winter to Brigid - the goddess of the light half of the year and the one to offer healing, protection of hearth and home, protection of lambs, and guidance in poetry and smithcraft. (And - I forgot to say this in the video, but she’s also credited with being the one to bring keening - the lamenting sound of grief and praise - to the Irish and Scottish people.)There are many folk traditions you can probably find from your ancestral traditions to ritually mark this time of year. But here are some of my thoughts, not necessarily on specific traditions, but more on the spiritual and symbolic significance of this moment in time for our creature selves as we aim to shift to a more ancestral, animist perspective on the world.Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.I really hadn’t gotten how funny the moment was until I said it out loud. And I often take life (and my spiritual practice) waaayyyy too seriously. But I’m aiming to laugh more.What’s your relationship to humor? To Tricksters? What do you think about the idea that life is both deeply meaningful and also totally ridiculous and a giant joke all at the same time?(And I meant to say this in the video and forgot - but if you’re involved in a spiritual practice or school where the teacher can’t laugh about things…get out now. It’s probably not a liberatory space)Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3__________________[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

For this conversation (the first after a long pause from recording), I’m joined by Stephanie MacKay - a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong - to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. (And someone whose approach to myth has changed my life and work and who I respect and admire greatly - like, I was buzzing after this convo from a combo of the channeling that seems to happen through me in these conversations and my own fan-girling).Like the myths themselves, this conversation is one of complexity and layers.Like the myths themselves, there’s an awful lot of wisdom here, stated simply and casually enough that if you aren’t listening for it (or maybe not quite ready for it), you might miss it. You might want to listen more than once.In it, we wonder about what is lost or being lost in our modern non-culture while holding the truth that all is not lost. We wonder about the richness and messiness of the human experience and also about the Great Oneness - the holiest of Holys - and how to hold both at the same time. We wonder about belonging and how to locate ourselves through ancestral lineages of dislocation.And through it all - the lives we both have lived, the teachers we have apprenticed to (human and not), and the deep work Stephanie has done with myth - all drop bits of guidance for our human hungers, loneliness, modern cultural poverties, and the tensions we find ourselves feeling stretched and reshaped by.This conversation is sobering and hopeful. It points unflinchingly at our wounds, at the immensity of the task before us as a species in these times; and also offers some possible direction, some balm.Join us around the fire? You’re most welcome here.(If you listen to this episode before January 17, 2026 or Feb 21st, 2026 and something in you sparks with what you hear - I highly recommend joining us for Stephanie’s online myth club:https://stephaniemackay.ca/myth-gatherings. Even if you miss those dates, you can look for others, online or in-person, at the same link.)As always: liking, commenting, sharing with folks in your circle, following and/or becoming a free (or paid on Substack) subscriber all help the seeds of this conversation spread so hopefully those who are seeking it will find it. My deepest gratitude for whatever ways you help feed this conversation on your end. <3Find out about Stephanie’s work:https://stephaniemackay.ca/You can find Kate:Website: www.wildsacredjourney.comEmail – kate@wildsacredjourney.comSubstack: https://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.An argument could be made that I started recording a bit too soon after waking up - watching back I feel like I can see me wake up part way through. So this is a bit of a slower morning ramble.But it’s also full of crow sass. And that’s worth something, I think.So join me for my morning feeding of the birds  while I share about: why I’ve come to love starting my morning this way; collective nervous systems;co-regulation with nature versus with machines and digital platforms;how cultivating the capacity to both be OK and not be OK at the same time might be key to sustaining ourselves through our species-wide initiation;and speaking the language of birds.Plus, like I said: crow sass.Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!P.S. I’m aiming for two of these “Creature Comfort” videos per week and one longer conversation podcast with a guest per month. Sound good?_______________________________[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.Another walk in the dark. A visit to two hawthorn trees who supported me this Fall. Then some musings on:dormancy and generosity;making offerings;healthy debt;supporting process vs supporting finished products;and a different kind of economy It wasn’t where I expected this “creature comfort” video to go… but that’s life!Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!(and I’ve decided to experiment with these “creature comfort” vids and see how it goes… you’re always welcome to let me know what you think!)___________________________www.wildsacredjourney.comhttps://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and become more vital and alive human again.This year my algorithm is full of more memes and “permission slips” reminding everyone that winter is not a time of growth. And of course, there’s some truth to that. And coming to see that is a great first stage in coming back to your animal self; in unlearning machine-oriented expectations of constant productivity.But what if post winter-solstice winter, in the natural world, actually *is* a time of growth? What if it’s how we’ve come to define growth that’s actually getting in the way here?Here I share some more thoughts about: the stages of reconnecting with the seasons; a more nature-based understanding of growth; why it’s important that we not only celebrate growth in the Spring; and my perspective on how hibernating and growing can (and should!) exist at the same time.(And what do you think - should these little videos affirming and comforting and giving context for our little creature selves be called “Creature Comfort”?? It could be a little subset of the Wild Sacred Journey podcast… 🙂)

I’m always quite reflective around my birthday and this episode was recorded only a few days after my 40th. So you’ll hear musings on: rites of passage; why I suspect the point of being human may actually be relationship; how posturing and collapse both lead to burnout; the possible connection between being risk averse and not experiencing unconditional belonging; why a linear concept of progress might support us thinking we can avoid consequences… and how that seems to catch up to us in midlife; why learning to steward consequence might be necessary to feeling at home in our bodies and the world;…and, of course, more. As always, I welcome hearing what you think.With love,KateP.S. The links I mentioned:Starter Kit: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/starter-kit1:1 bespoke guidance and support: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/individualAnd stay tuned for info about the roundhouse gatherings_____________________________You can find Kate:Website: www.wildsacredjourney.comEmail – kate@wildsacredjourney.comInstagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

Back in mid-October I received an email from long-time listener and spiritual development devotee Anne Ruel, sharing some thoughts and questionsep 49 had sparked for her as she considered questions of burnout, purpose anxiety, and integration in her own life and journey.I thought about responding in a solo episode but had a suspicion a real-time conversation between the two of us would be richer. So in early December, we sat down and chatted all things “integration”.Anne shared her story of starting with yoga and then moving further down the spiritual growth and development path through training after training (in yoga, energy healing modalities, life coaching, cacao ceremonies, etc)... and how she ended up feeling more burned out, alone, and lost than ever before. At the time, she hadn’t heard of the idea of integration. And she admits that though she’s beginning to suspect it was the missing piece for her, she feels mystified about what it actually is, how to know it’s happening, and what signs might signal it’s complete.So we get into it.Along the way, you’ll hear us explore things like:the cultural rootlessness and lack of true mentors which leaves us with an immense inner hunger (and how capitalism wants us to feel that and why it can get us into trouble);reclaiming curiosity, depth, enoughness, our own power and self-responsibility, and the permission to do things differently;what wisdom actually is;the costs of coercive capitalism, prizing youth over older age, and punitive justice systems (and how those tie into integration, burn out, feeling lost and overwhelmed);setting boundaries (even with spirit guides and the things we love, partly as a way to maintain a sacred sense of connection);the relational dance of encountering Spirit and untangling ourselves over and over again;“peak experiences” as ruptures of our timeline;riding the “down wave” after a peak experience… (hopefully) without feeling like we’re having a psychotic break;how we might find who we are and what our purpose is;and at what point in our spiritual development journey transformation actually happens (hint: it might not be what you’re used to thinking it is)…and more.As you can probably tell from that list, this is a deep (and lengthy) conversation. This might be one you want to listen to in chunks. I listened in for if there was a good place to edit it into two episodes, but decided to leave it intact as one. I leave it to you to find your right pacing for listening.And I do hope you’ll listen. And share if it resonates. From where I stand, integration is one of the key (often missing) pieces to navigating the spiritual and wellness world with more integrity - whether we’re there to deepen our own journey, or as a guide/ teacher/ facilitator for others. We need more conversations like this.Join us around the fire? You’re most welcome here.And thanks, Anne, for reaching out with your questions, sharing your story and hard-earned wisdom, and joining me in this conversation. (P.S. If you’re a listener and find yourself with questions, musings, etc after an episode - feel free to reach out. Maybe we can have a conversation, too) ___________________________________You can find Kate:Website: www.wildsacredjourney.comEmail –kate@wildsacredjourney.comInstagram: @wildsacredjourney_kpAnd if you want to connect with Anne, feel free to pass a message through me by my email above.

Back in November, Kate Graham (who you may remember from episode 40) interviewed me as part of her Oracle Mountain Chats - a series of conversations with the speakers and visionaries of the first ever OracleFest. I really enjoyed our conversation and thought I’d share it with you all here. You’ll hear us chat about:  titles and roles like “oracle” or “shaman” in modern times; why I think the practice of animist kinship might have kept our ancestors from experiencing burnout; how our disdain for our pre-industrial ancestors might keep us disconnected from wisdom and possibility; the call of these times to reclaim our humanity and what practices might bring us there; what forces are shaping us and how they leave us feeling broken and flawed; our purpose individually and as humans; the one practice I’d like to suggest or invite people into in these times; some more of my own “healing journey” …and more OracleFest Online will be happening Jan 31-Feb 2, 2025. You can still join us if you want to: https://oraclefest.com/?aff=kate_wildsacredjourney ________________________ Otherwise, you can find me: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

I had plans for a different podcast episode today. But I need more rest and spaciousness in my day. Perhaps you do, too.  In fact, I’m quite confident you do. So this episode is not just about rest and why it’s probably so key at this moment in the year… but also an actual invitation to rest.  Set a timer. I’ll get you started.  Let’s rest more. With love, Kate P.S. If you’re interested in Insight 2025, you can find more info or purchase yours here: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/tarot-for-2025 (It’s available for purchase until Jan 16th, 2025). _______________________ You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

Are we manifesting? Are we practicing unattachment to results? Are we trying to create a new us, a better us? How do we even know what a better us might be or look like? Are we good enough as we are? If so, what’s the point, what drives us into any kind of action? There’s a lot that feels confusing and overwhelming at this time of year. So here, on a new moon at the beginning of a new year, I talk about the rhythms of planting, tending, harvesting, evaluating which are available to us at many points throughout the year. I also muse about hunger and desire and some of the pitfalls we can fall into when we’re manifesting from our modern ways of perceiving and relating to the world, as opposed to more ancestral and animist ways of perceiving and relating (and how that can affect our burnout and purpose anxiety). And I share a method that seems to be working well for me (hint - it’s not a word-based theme and I’ll also tell you why I suspect that didn’t work for me). Whatever your way of honoring this moment in time, may you find a way to wield your desires on behalf of more beautiful and meaningful relationships with the world. And may you move in the direction of a most honest and loving aliveness, expressing itself through you. With love, Kate P.S. If you’re interested in Insight 2025, you can find more info or purchase yours here: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/tarot-for-2025 ____________________________ You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

A quick bonus episode with some thoughts around burnout and the holiday season and what we might consider in order to honor a more ancestral rhythm. First conceived in late November, then recorded a week or so ago, the rhythm of bringing this episode to you demonstrates my own honoring of this rhythm. No rush. Everything in its time. If you do want to join us in the virtual roundhouse for an experiential exploration and re-imagining of how our longer ago ancestors would have gathered for ceremony and story; as a way to keep themselves human, whole, connected, and alive at this time of longest night and the return of the sun… we’ll be gathering on Dec 20th (tomorrow from when this episode actually goes live). You can find more info or save your spot: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/winter-solstice-in-the-roundhouse Here’s to rest, the fruitful darkness, and the blessed return of the light. With love, Kate __________________ You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” - Wendell Berry Tad Hargrave, one of our guests in today’s episode, likes to reference this quote. And seeing a need to call people back into their humanity, finding ways to help them go about their days with more goodness and beauty, is something at the heart of both of our work. We also both love stories and myths. In fact, we talked about those very things in episode 38. Recently, he’s been teaming up with Kakisimow Iskwew (aka Natalie Pepin) - a Metis Cultural Educator who helps guide Indigenous people reclaiming their culture to connect with their living teachings around art, food, language and connection to spirit. And together, they’re offering deep spirals into the story ‘Briar Rose’ as a way of beginning to access indigenous cultural memory of Mother Europe. I jumped at the chance to have them both gather with me here to spiral around some of the big, important questions many of us who want to live as creatures and want to do something about the ugliness which seems to be everywhere in the world today seem to be grappling with and wondering about. Questions like: What is culture? And if we’re ‘white’ or of European descent (particularly if we live in so-called ‘North America’), do we have ‘culture’? How are we defining indigenous - as an identity or something else? What does it mean that stories hold memory? How do we navigate the hunger, the thirst, the grief and shame which seem to be in so many of us these days as we reach for something meaningful and nourishing? And if we find some deeper roots, and they feel like their ‘ours’, how do we go about honoring them in a good way? Since we recorded the conversation, I attended a three-hour online version of their spiral into Briar Rose and the story is still resonating within me and moving me in ways that aren’t ready to be articulated yet; but are inviting me into deeper relationship, into protocol, with the story itself and the living culture it’s carrying. May this conversation be a way of growing more culture - may it offer you some soil, or perhaps the glimpse of some roots, an idea of where to dig to find something which invites you back into deeper humanity.  And if you’re feeling the call, I highly recommend their work with Briar Rose. You can find more about it here: https://meetingmyancestors.com/briar-rose/  __________________ As always - if this conversation moves you in some way, please help share and pass it on to others you think might also be moved. This type of sharing helps feed these conversations and the work we’re up to in the world. Find Tad: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/ Find Natalie/ Kakisimow Iskwew: https://meetingmyancestors.com/ Find Kate: www.wildsacredjourney.com

Back in late August, I sat down to have a flowing, juicy conversation with the wise, down-to-Earth Tamy Roloff (herbal tea seller, coach, midwife, mother and grandmother) around aliveness and aging; and more specifically the question: is it inevitable that we settle in to die with little excitement or joy for the future beyond retirement prospects?  Along the way, we also explore: spirituality; plants as friends; ancestral ways and animism; women’s life cycles and seasons; how being a woman is often framed as a negative thing and other ways we might be able see it; pain avoidance, mindset, and how that affects our ability to find pleasure and our own rhythms; community and living counter-culturally; travel and how it opens us to other ways of seeing ourselves and the world; possible benefits to loneliness; self-trust; …and more. Join us around the fire? You’re most welcome here. _____________________ And if you've come for Tamy, I hope you'll stick around for more conversations exploring the question: in dehumanizing times, what might help us stay human and be more fully alive? You can find Tamy: Website: wholisticwomantea.com Instagram: WholisticW Facebook: Wholistic Woman YouTube: WholisticWomanTea You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

What if your fear of being seen as lazy is wasting your fire and contributing to your burnout? And what if what we’ve been taught to consider as laziness is our body and brain trying to recalibrate back to more sustainable cycles of efforting and rest? __________ Your desire to contribute and make a difference is a genuine and beautiful thing… and when it gets entangled with (often unconscious and unexamined) societal conditioning around the evils of laziness and the glories of productivity… we end up primed for burnout. But we need our fire. In these times, perhaps, more than ever.  We need to be able to face challenges in less exhausting, more pleasurable ways. We need to work rest into our cycles of efforting so we can keep going. Tune in to hear me share these thoughts and some exercises I’ve found to be helpful. Try them with me and let me know how it goes?  I’d love to hear.  Here’s to climbing our mountains, Kate ______________________ You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

Last weekend I made a hat. I took a pile of wool fibers and turned them into something functional and beautiful for my head. And since then, how wool fulls and felts has been popping to mind as a metaphor for relationship and community building. In the wake of the US elections, I felt drawn to share some of these musings with you and go a little deeper into why I believe these ancestral skills practices, alongside more animist and ancestral wisdom and healing traditions, make for a potent store house for our individual and collective humanity. So which relationships make up the threads in the fabric of you? Which do you not feel so full without? Which frictions and differences are actually serving to make you stronger and more resilient? Which are too much and risk tearing or damaging the cloth of you? Which are not enough to encourage the bonding needed for us all to become? Where can you turn to be reminded of your humanity? How are you passing humanity down to the ones who will come after? I’d love to hear.  Here’s to being stronger together. Here’s to staying human and staying alive. With love, Kate ________________________ You can find Kate: Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp