The Nurture Pod Virginia Edwards

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss The Fifth Sacred Thing - a novel by Starhawk of two potential futures that play out in California. The book gives a glimpse into the power of writing a future that inspires rather than the apocalyptic wasteland that's shown so often in the media.A key part of nuture culture is the ability to understand what seeds we are planting for future generations and how we want that future to look. Calling all positive futurists! Give us a comment if yo...

In this episode of the Nurture Pod, Iris and Ginger discuss this Summer Solstice /Full Moon in Capricorn moment and what it is revealing to us about how and where we place our energy. This is the halfway point of the year. From this point on we are working with waning solar energy leading towards the Winter Solstice in December. Nature is at it's peak bloom and yet not everything will make it to set seed in the fall. There is a natural weeding and wilting of things over the mon...

Social media is always changing, evolving and learning from us just as we laugh, numb out and learn from it. It wasn't always this hard or easy to connect back before the turn of the century. Nature teaches us about what vast interconnected networking is for but are our monkey brains able to go there? Maybe AI will sort it out for us. Send more cat memes!To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and...

In this episode Iris and Ginger talk about community. What is it? Who gets to create it? Why do some groups feel like community and others don't? Can we have a Nurture Culture without a community? What are the wounds we try to heal with Community and what wounds does it create? So many interesting questions to discuss and spoiler alert- there's not really any clear answers. Listen in and tell us what you think!To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.drea...

In this episode Iris and Ginger talk about cleaning up their lives (and art studio and barn) and the relationship we have to stuff. Do our things nurture us or drag us down? When is the right time to let it all go and start over? Materialism vs. Consumerism and what that means for us as a culture and in community. To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and courses visit:https://www.northfor...

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the cultural trope of "figuring it out" while also sleeping through the northern lights. To find more about classes and courses Iris is offering visithttps://www.dreambirdstudio.com/To find Ginger's events, coaching and courses visit:https://www.northfork53.com/Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music!Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home