Do you often feel exhausted, confused, scared, scatterbrained, stressed or burned out?
Do you tend to feel anxious, left out and lost?
So many of us are suffering and feel that we are failures in one way or another.
But what if we really are not?
What if all those - all us -suffering are really the canaries of the coalmine?
This is an invitation to look at the mental health crisis in a new way.
A way that points to what makes us sick - and what we need to thrive… that suggests we see the mental health crisis as an overlooked and crucial aspect of ecological crises.
I want you to know that you are not wrong… that it is the culture of growth which is harmful to the mental ecosystem.
And from this place, perhaps we might feel empowered to protest and create change.
Thanks to somatics coach Rachel Blackman for the juicy explorative conversation from which you will find bits and pieces spread around all over these pages.
So, I went to be with the meadow this morning.
To have a chat, commune with the knowledge of all the lives weaved and woven together there.
Laying down in the grass
I tried to listen inwards