Before the Fern Dies

And at long last, we reach the end of our journey into visualization, guided meditation, and what it all has to show us about our inner psyches. We leave the woodland vibes of Part 2 behind and venture into some deeper waters - love, life, death, and beyond - as we conclude this three-parter. Check out Episodes 16 and 17 to hear the first half of this conversation-turned-therapy-session, and the guided meditation that started it all.

Back in Part 1 of this little series, we let a guided meditation walk us down our life path. In this episode, we're revealing what the first half of the meditation's twists and turns symbolize about our futures, and putting on our therapist hats to interpret what our psyches were trying to tell us (although we probably should call our actual therapists about some of it...). Stay tuned for Part 3, where we'll conclude this wild jaunt into the land of visualization!

Okay, we don't have a literal crystal ball unfortunately, but we ARE taking a little peek into our futures through ~*visualization*~. Follow along as we let a guided meditation walk us through our life path, then try to interpret what it all really means for our future friendships, love lives, and homes (spoiler: it's basically the Breaking Dawn cottage).

In Episode 16, Part 1, we'll take you through the guided meditation that we'll be discussing in the next installments, so that YOU TOO can look into your figurative crystal ball with us!

We check in with each other this week about what has transpired within the last few days in terms of the upcoming presidential inauguration. To put it simply- a coup. A god damn domestic terrorist attack on American democracy and its people by a violent group of white supremacists. We focus our attention on what we have been doing to stay sane and care for ourselves during this historically wild and sad time. We hope this can be useful to you friends. Blessed be. 

In this episode we: talk about lists, talk a lot about lists, talk psych n’ things, laugh about lists, share some lists, and then M.A.S.H. hard baby. That's all you need to know. 

To New Year's resolution... or not to New Year's resolution? That is the question we ask in this week's episode! 2020 has been one humdinger of a year, friends. With 2021 on the horizon, we are setting our intentions, roasting Good Housekeeping, and shooting a final flaming arrow into the Viking longboat that is 2020.

Happy, happy Yule folks! We kick off Before the Fern Dies season II on the day of the winter solstice to celebrate the change from fall to winter. In this episode, we discuss traditional Yule celebrations, major astrological happenings, goats, The Dark Crystal, and all our other shenanigans. We are so excited to be back to do this season bigger and better than ever!

For the final installment of the Death series as well as the final episode of season one, we finish up with questions we have been dying to get answers to like “what kind of flowers or plants would be at your funeral?” “Do you believe in an afterlife?” “What would be your last meal?” We just can’t stop talking about all things death! So take a listen, and then think about how great it is to be alive.

She’s here! The second installment of the Death series: Death Part II. In this episode, we get into the nitty-gritty of how we ourselves view death. We chat about parents and dying a lot and even dig into some good ol’ trauma. We hope this will prompt you to think about how death has played a role in your life and hopefully help disarm some of the stigma surrounding death. Hell yeah!

It's the spookiest of all spookies in honor of the spooky season: DEATH. In DEATH Part I, we go on a global bar crawl from Egypt, to Vietnam, to North America, and more - except instead of crawling bars, we're crawling... funeral traditions from around the world...? Captions are hard. Harder than pondering the abyss of DEATH, which we hope you'll do with us in Episode 9 of Before the Fern DIES!