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?

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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

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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

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You can find Kate:

Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com

Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com

Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp

What distinguishes a pilgrimage from everyday life?

Did our long-ago ancestors suffer from burnout or purpose anxiety? And, if not, why?

These are two main questions I’m exploring at the one month mark of being back in Scotland after my epic ancestral pilgrimage here (and in Ireland) last year.

You’ll hear me muse about:

• what being on pilgrimage means and whether we can practice it even if we can’t leave home;
• connecting with our ancestral tapestries through food, language, song, and story;
• what might be possible if we brought more wonder, magic, and vulnerability back to the small moments of life;
• why I suspect our ancestors didn’t struggle with purpose anxiety;
• if worrying about purpose is actually a way of seeking validation;
• a basic definition of ‘integration’;

… and more.

Do you have ways of practicing pilgrimage (whether through travel or at home)? What is your way of being curious about the universe?

I’d love to hear.

Here’s to wonder and questions and the magic of aliveness,

Kate

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You can find Kate:

Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com

Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com

Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp