What a rite of passage should be: A powerful graduation into a new phase of life - something one grows into and is supported into during the transition. 

What they often are instead because we lack proper rites of passage?

• A piss up for your 18th or 21st with gloating about who got the drunkest
• A sexual encounter you might not feel ready for but ‘all your friends have’ and you’re X age now, so you feel you have to or should want to. 
• Depression or anxiety because of a lack of support into a new chapter (adulthood, parenthood, elder life). 

As a couple of examples… This week, we talk about how long-standing community GP Dr Arne Rubinstein started noticing his patients were suffering all sorts of unhealthy situations in their lives. Many of them stemmed from a lack of solid grounding and really getting to ‘grow up’ properly or enter new phases in life. They lacked recognition, transition, and community support. 

Arne founded the Rites of Passage Institute as a result and for 3 decades has now been taking groups around the world through programs to reintroduce this vital acknowledgement of growth and ceremony and honouring into our lives and the world is better for his work. 

I hope you love this conversation as much as I did hosting it. You won’t leave without a thought or two very much provoked, that much I can promise you. 

Connect with Arne and his team’s work at the Rites of Passage Institute to learn more. 

Head to the shownotes on lowtoxlife.com/podcast to download the resources - Golden Check In and 7 Parenting Strategies. 

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