Where I Explain Our Worsening Mental Health to My Friends’ Dog

Today is a bit different. My original pod is delayed so I'm reading part of a resource I use in one of my classes, there's also an adapted version on my website.

Join me as, during a walk with Bella the dog, we look at:

• The profound links between our mental well-being our planetary well-being, and our economy
• How and why the implications of these connections are somewhat obscured
• What happens when our frenetic, consumer mindset infiltrates everything (and how it affects our dogs!) 
• The "beast" (non-dog, non-human) that operates completely incompatibly with the needs of life itself.
• Why rest, balance, and care are actually a threat to the beast’s survival.
• Two crucial places to start when faced with the overwhelming reality of it all (one for humans, one for dogs!)

Mentioned or relevant:

• Get support or guidance from me here
• It's my half birthday, which is neither relevant or mentioned in the episode but I just remembered so ...yay!
• Finches, rabbits, poop, dandelions
• One swear word this time!
• The people I work with are using (and contributing to) this companion resource at the moment, you can join us: An Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
• I have workshops in Aotearoa or online coming up in the next few months: if you’d like updates and invitations,  pop yourself on to my Friends List
• I write on Substack too—come hang out there if you wanna.
• Everything I do is by donation or gift. You can donate to support my work here if you want (thank you, amazing person)

Gosh what a stupendous amount of links.

Thank you so much for being with me today. You are the astonishing twinkle of Venus.