Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Futuresteading
E23 Futuresteading Shortie : Life in lockdown
Need some lockdown solidarity? Here’s 20 minutes of it, with a real and honest chat about our experiences, and insights, from the ongoing Victorian lockdown.
Jade’s juggling kids on the farm in Stage 3 while Catie is chucking tanties at her laptop in Melbourne’s Stage 4. We hope this little small glimpse into our everyday is akin to a virtual hug.
Caveat: There's no one experience of lockdown, nor prescription for doing it right. We acknowledge our relative good fortune while honouring the tougher-than-tough reality of so many others.
SHOW NOTES
- Why Catie's brain is like wet cake
- Long funky days at home with kids
- Wired brains and screen-impacted sleep
- Solidarity!
- Finding daily patterns for consistency and reassurance
- Why this enforced localisation is giving us the chance to take a microscopic view of our local turf
- Sharing a daily lunch with family - snack plates + kids
- The value of accepting this period of wartime-like grief
- Seeing a psychologist is a mental multivitamin
- We are experiencing acute instability
- Grief/joy/love are combining to create empathy for others
- Human adaptability
- At least there's no FOMO!
- Willingness to be vulnerable; we are all in this together
- The value of maintaining perspective
- The value of repetition and order
- Diving into abstract, artistic, creative concepts and classic literature
- Loving those at home
- Letting joy be your compass - harking back to our childhood loves
- Why we don't have to have a picture of the new world we want. Nature is emergent; let's be open to unfolding solutions
- Seeing the beauty in the immediate
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