This Podcast Isnt Working Heidi Wright

Are we being pushed down rabbit holes of negative thought without our permission? Join me as I follow the train of my own thoughts about the insensitivity and irrationality of algorithms and how me might be able to find ways to interrupt the downward spiral of negativity and fear they generate.

With the world in distress and her people trying to come to terms with that, there comes a deafening sound of expression - the hopeful, the sad and the terrifying. After a long break I'm back to share something that cut through the cacophony for me recently. Peace x

Poetry is full of so much meaning that we may need to read less of it in order to receive more of what it has to say to us.

Mentioned on today's episode:
Making Sense with Sam Harris https://samharris.org/podcast/
Sam's episode with David Whyte https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/184-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/id733163012?i=1000464519320
David Whyte https://www.davidwhyte.com
Mary Oliver reading her poem Wild Geese https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/

A fresh start doesn't always lead to real and lasting change. Often, after the initial exciting rush of 'doing a geographical', we're left still dealing with the things we ran away from in the first place. Today, I share how we recently succeeded at 'doing a geographical' well and why it was different to other attempts to start over.

As parents we 'hold' our children as they learn to safely rise and fall through the waves of their emotions. The hard part is that, to a degree, we ride the waves with them. So what happens when we feel the need to be 'held' too? Are there parts of the journey that we have to just go through untethered and alone?

Sacred places are found all over the world. Some are mighty and exude a skin-tingling sense of the wondrous. But others are as tiny as a warm burrow or the internal pages of a treasured journal.