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Ep. 29: Jessica Carew Kraft: Why We Need to Be Wild Page One Podcast
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In Episode 29, we interview Jessica Carew Kraft about her deeply engrossing debut book, WHY WE NEED TO BE WILD, a teaching memoir that chronicles her journey from surviving the tech world to embracing the ancestral skills community that has allowed her to finally thrive. If you’ve ever watched an episode of “Alone,” your curiosity might have been piqued about the people who have the skills not only to survive, but to thrive in the wild. For Jessica, learning these skills was literally a matter of life and death after watching her extraordinary mother struggle with multiple sclerosis and die too early.
Haunted by the ‘dis-ease’ she witnessed as a child, Jessica begins to question the gross imbalance in her own life and consider if the modern world is feeding or starving her and her daughters. Determined not to succumb to her mother’s decline, she sets out into the ancestral skills community to learn how to rewild the parts of herself that had been dying and reawakens the innate wisdom of living a life in harmony with nature.
This is an extraordinary story and one of the best teaching memoirs I’ve read in a long time. I loved talking with Jessica about her journey and extraordinary mom—whose spirit is guiding her forward. And while I might never stop my car to pick up roadkill with my own daughter, I envy the skills Jessica has learned to do so with her own daughters—and live off the land. This is one wise, humorous and soulful woman who I hope you get to know and love in Ep. 29.
In Episode 29, we interview Jessica Carew Kraft about her deeply engrossing debut book, WHY WE NEED TO BE WILD, a teaching memoir that chronicles her journey from surviving the tech world to embracing the ancestral skills community that has allowed her to finally thrive. If you’ve ever watched an episode of “Alone,” your curiosity might have been piqued about the people who have the skills not only to survive, but to thrive in the wild. For Jessica, learning these skills was literally a matter of life and death after watching her extraordinary mother struggle with multiple sclerosis and die too early.
Haunted by the ‘dis-ease’ she witnessed as a child, Jessica begins to question the gross imbalance in her own life and consider if the modern world is feeding or starving her and her daughters. Determined not to succumb to her mother’s decline, she sets out into the ancestral skills community to learn how to rewild the parts of herself that had been dying and reawakens the innate wisdom of living a life in harmony with nature.
This is an extraordinary story and one of the best teaching memoirs I’ve read in a long time. I loved talking with Jessica about her journey and extraordinary mom—whose spirit is guiding her forward. And while I might never stop my car to pick up roadkill with my own daughter, I envy the skills Jessica has learned to do so with her own daughters—and live off the land. This is one wise, humorous and soulful woman who I hope you get to know and love in Ep. 29.
58 min