Sending inspiration from this month’s episode on blended healing approaches in grief work to your feed ✨
EP 77: Camille Sapara Barton on growing cultures of care in communal grief tending.
Listen to this month’s episode with @katyalovejoy on tapping into ancestral joy and resilience as a means to resist systems of genocide and cultural erasure.
Visit mindfullofeverything.com (link in bio) to listen now, or tune in on your favourite podcast platforms.
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Listen to the latest episode with @rebekah_shaman on her journey from the intimate and hyper-local level work in plant medicine shamanism in Peru to macro-level politics, and what power self sovereignty holds for radical system change.
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We often feel that community means being connected to those we “do know”, those who we have co-created an intimate connection with, who we actively care for and love. But what if we reimagine community to be everyone & every place right here on Earth, even if they are ones that we “do not yet know”? What if we re-envision Earth to be one big community where every entity on this planet is connected to us, regardless of us directly caring for them?
Listen to “The intimacy lens to community rebuilding” episode for some answers to these questions.
(listen now on mindfullofeverything.com or on your favourite podcast platform)
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How can we reframe modern environmentalism to such that we can reconnect environmental practices back to their ancestral roots and better respect Indigenous science and wisdom?
Listen to “Revitalising connections to community and Earth with Sanjana Sekhar (@sanj___)” to find out about some of the ways we can step out of the colonial mindset of co-opting Indigenous and ancient environmental practices in order to preserve indigenous sovereignty and collectively work towards a safer and healthier future for all.
Image Source: Gabriel Jimenez (via Unsplash)
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“I think this is where I like to approach this work from a place of pleasure, because we can get into this either-or thinking where it's like, either I'm going to just abide in the the system as it is, or I'm going to be completely against that and be it live in the woods and have a completely different life. And I think when we're in that kind of mindset, we're getting in trouble because we don't live in an either-or world. We live in a both-and kind of world. The both-and is in our in our world right now; there's so much suffering, there's so much violence, there's so much hate and misunderstanding, and at the same time there’s so much beauty, there's so much love and there's so much creativity and there's so much possibility. So how do we hold that complexity in our individual bodies? The pathway toward pleasure, and this is the pathway I think for somatic work and also for reconnecting with our decolonial practices, is what can I move toward that feels good?”
- Kelsey Blackwell (@decolonizingthebody) on unlearning colonial somatics as women of colour
Listen now on mindfullofeverything.com or on your podcast app of choice.
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Immigration may well have held many challenges, but one of the things I am most grateful about as an immigrant is realising, and tending to, our broken culture of community in Western countries. Our self-centred systems have taught us to prioritise yourself and your in-group before others, but once we individually, and collectively, realise this to be a toxic way of life, it’s as if many of us don’t know how to make deep and meaningful connections anymore.
As I explored this further, I came to understand that India, originally collectivistic in nature, is now replicating these toxic social patterns, and is also too losing the essence of community in its culture. This left me feeling very broken as I already didn’t connect to the Western culture but now couldn’t reconnect to the Indian culture without facing the nation’s harsh realities.
Now I have come to a stage in life where instead of focusing on what has happened and continuing the cycle of despair and hopelessness at our current state, I am looking for ways to decolonise my mind and soul by deepening my understanding of the pre-colonial social norms within India, and currently used by Indigenous communities around the world, to tend to this broken culture of community and how we can re-envision ourselves as part of the world, and connected to each other, instead of separate.
Listen to “Finding self in a broken culture of community” episode for more.
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“New mothers have this pattern of crippling anxiety coming on really suddenly because of echo, fear, or grief, and anxiety about the about climate change, which could be really overwhelming. So what I'm thinking that rather than this being like a mental health problem, as it's often discussed, it can be reframed as an awakening and opportunity” - Dr Allison Davis
Listen to “Reimagining environmentalism through the motherhood lens with Dr Allison Davis” for more (link in bio).
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#motherwound #mothering #newmothers #motherhood #motherhoodjourney #ecofeminism #ecofeminist #ecofeministtheology #intersectionalenvironmentalism #indigenouswisdom #mothernatureheals #healingnature #mothermentalhealth #ecoanxiety #climatecrisis #environmentaljustice #womensmentalhealth #matrescence
Whilst it’s easy to blame colonial powers and Western cultures for the environmental problems India is facing, colonisation during British rule heavily influenced India’s shift in environmental practices and inhibited the adoption of ancient eco-spiritual values by contemporary Indian societies. Dr Pallavi Das released a paper in 2010 showcasing the environmental consequences of the expansion of the railway network across India under British rule. The biggest impact of the railways was experienced in Punjab, India’s largest agricultural state and the “breadbasket” of the British empire. In Chenab alone, ~78% of timber was consumed by railways between 1861-62 and that percentage shot up to ~92% between 1862-63.
The British railway is a powerful example of the way in which colonialism, imperialism and capitalism can permanently shape socio-political and natural environments; India, overall, still remains a highly colonised nation, where Western cultures and mindsets are prioritised over native ones. It’s heartbreaking to see, even today, my older family members viewing colonisation as a force that done more good than harm, a force that strengthened India rather than made the country highly dependent on colonial systems and lifestyles.
Now part of the race to attain the development of Western countries, India no longer values the eco-spiritual practices and systems put in place thousands of years ago as they are seen as too “weak” and slow-paced for the growing economy.
The tolls of this toxic, unsustainable growth have disproportionately impacted the natural world and the most vulnerable of society, such as the extensive pollution of the Holy Ganga river, flash flooding in the Himalayas, rising deaths due to air pollution and India‘s waste crisis. If India was to re-harness the power and potential of its rich eco-spiritual wisdom, as done so by Indigenous communities, long-term, sustainable solutions to the nation’s ecological crises can be ach
Human custodianship of Earth’s sacredness has been heavily emphasised in ancient Indian culture. The planet as a whole is viewed as the Mother of all life, and all mediums sustaining life are believed to hold these feminine and maternal qualities
as well.
Many water bodies in India have never been viewed as just rivers, lakes or oceans but rather life-giving and sacred boons gifted to the world by Goddess avatars who represent motherhood, life and purity.
The Ganga river (Ganges in English) is believed to be Goddess Ganga in water form within Hindu mythology. Flowing from Lord Shiva’s dreadlocks, Ganga descended to Earth and began her course from the Himalayan holy site of Gangotri and flowed from Northern India into modern-day Bangladesh. The ancient Hindu religious scriptures, the Vedh and the Puran, state the Ganga is the most sacred river, and this explains why millions of Hindus travel from afar to experience the divinity of
the Ganga river and to make pilgrimages to holy sites located in the western Himalayas. Many devotees believe bathing in the river will cleanse their sins; Ganga jaal (water) is bottled for Hindus and tourists to take back some of the holy water for prayers or as a keepsake from the religious site.
Despite Ganga’s religious/spiritual significance, the Puran clearly state “All rivers are holy and all of them remove sins. All of them are bestowers of merit”. Therefore, ancient Indian eco-spirituality began with the worship and protection of the rivers that flowed through the country and gifted life to Earth, and it’s these teachings that can help revive India’s broken ecosystems.
Listen to “Spiritual ecology at the heart of environmentalism” for more on the eco-spiritual teachings of ancient Hinduism and how both secular and religious communities in India to help solve the nation’s ecological crises.
The theory of ecofeminism is evidence that environmentalism needs to be urgently demasculinised for us to be able to restore ecological balance and control the rate to which our climate is changing.
Take a moment to recall the names of famous men/accounts run by those identifying as men supporting the environmental movement, or even the men in your own lives publicly advocating for greener lifestyles. Now compare the number of names you can recall to the famous women, or women in your lives, supporting the environmental movement. Most of us will struggle to name men than women because most of us still view environmentalism as feminine.
Toxic masculinity and patriarchy rejects any form of femininity, be it expression of emotions or veganism and recycling. A study by Brough et al in 2016 found that sustainable consumption patterns aren’t just a product of personality differences between genders, as suggested by previous
research, but also due to the “green feminine stereotype”, where both men and women associate green behaviours to femininity, therefore men will choose to avoid adopting green behaviours to maintain their masculine identities. For example, in one of the seven studies conducted for the research, choosing to use a reusable bag was labelled as feminine compared to using a plastic bag, regardless of the gender of the person using the reusable bag.
Head over to mindfullofeverything.com to continue listening to the problems the green feminine stereotype poses for the success of the modern environmental movement.
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UN data estimates that 80% of people displaced by the impacts of the changing climate are indeed women. Since since 70% of the world’s most poor are women, relocation can be an extremely arduous task, physically, mentally but also financially.
This isn’t just limited to women living in rural and developing areas; women having a low socioeconomic status in developed regions suffer from natural hazard impacts aswell. For example, Black American women were most affected by flooding in Louisiana during hurricane katrina in 2005, with more than half of poor families affected in New Orleans having single mothers leading them. These families depended on community networks for their daily resources and essentially survival but the floods displaced many poor families away from these support mechanisms and into emergency shelters which weren’t fully equipped in supporting women. Many shelters didn’t have adequate period product supplies and with New Orleans being a low-lying city, the risk of flooding by such extreme weather events is increasingly high.
Listen to the “Ecofeminism as a solution to the climate crisis” episode for more on the importance of incorporating the ecofeminist framework to address gendered impacts of climate change. Listen now on your podcast app of choice or visit mindfullofeverything.com (link in bio)
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“As the Hindu proverb from the Holy Bhagwad Gita says, traditions need to change with time. What was once seen as pious and pure does not need to be viewed in the same light, and traditions that were once upheld can indeed be dismantled and reimagined to fit the period of time we are living in now”
Listen to the silk episode for more (link in bio or follow Mind Full of Everything on your podcast app of choice).
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This episode entirely focuses on the importance of forgiving ourselves before the other person/people. Although everyone’s definition of forgiveness is different, we can’t omit self-forgiveness from the process of forgiving. When we do that, we prevent ourselves from healing because we continue to punish ourselves for what has happened to us, which becomes evident to us through our PTSD symptoms. Let’s work on ourselves from the start to help heal our wounds 🍃
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