Gaiakind Project

For the last decade, Raine has been on a mission to help people find expansion in their lives through holistic wellbeing: physical, mental and spiritual. This journey of course started within, with my own healing, and then expanded outwards in my career teaching movement, meditation and healthy eating, as well as practising energy healing. Through this journey of self-discovery I have come to learn that my core purpose is to use my voice, both spoken and written, to facilitate healing for others.

e: [email protected]

ig: @raine.dunn

w: rainedunn.com

#breastimplantremoval #plantmedicine #eatingdisorder #meatmovemind #meatbasedketo #mindfulness #KetoCarnivore #KetoDiet #KetoCarnivore #Ketovore #Fasting #IntermittentFasting #foodaddiction #meatbaseddiet #animalbased #animalbaseddiet #banting #bantingdiet

Quote I’m Contemplating

Life can only grow outward in proportion to how stable it is inward

You may believe that living life to the fullest is seeing every country in the world and quitting your job on a whim and falling recklessly in love, but really it’s just knowing how to be where your feet are. It’s learning how to take care of yourself, how to make home within your own skin. It’s learning how to build a simple life you are proud of. A life most fully lived is not always composed of the things that rock you awake, but those that slowly assure you that it’s ok to slow down. That you don’t always have to prove yourself. That you don’t need to fight forever or constantly want more. That it’s ok for things to be just as they are. And when those big moments come, which they will, you’ll feel them in a way you couldn’t before. You’ll experience them in a way you didn’t before. You’ll appreciate them because you’ll be able to fully be in them. Little by little you will begin to see that life can only grow outward in proportion to how stable it is inward - that if the joy is not in the little things first, the big things don’t fully find us.

— Brianna Wiest

Conversation I’ve Enjoyed

RAINE DUNN on Breast Implant Removal, Plant Medicine (& Best Practices), Eating Disorders and More

Tweet I’m Retweeting

You Have the Power to Change Your Health

Without good health, it's impossible to enjoy life fully. It's become the norm for people to spend life feeling sick, exhausted, in pain, popping pills, & just surviving. Why wouldn't you do everything in your power to change this? Sadly, most don't believe they have the power.

— @ElieJarrougeMD

Tweet I’m Tweeting

I’d Rather Have Bread Than Potato Fries

Testimonial I’ve Enjoyed Reading

From Anxiety-Ridden to Thriving

Hey Josh I found your account via —’s Instagram. I had to subscribe straight away your approach to living, healing and thriving really resonated with me. I have been on a long journey myself, finding depth and growth in physical exercise (mostly yoga and long hikes), meditation, and proper nutrition (mostly animal-based) which has led me from being an anxiety-ridden wreck ruled by an eating disorder, barely able to function in the world, to now working as a doctor and trying to help other people on their paths as best I can. I thought I would reach out to you because so many things you mention, the books and the words of wisdom you share, have also found a place in my soul (Gabor Maté! Nietzsche!) I hope you have a wonderful Sunday. Looking forward to reading your newsletter. I will check out the youtube channel later. All the best, —

[the names mentioned in this email I received were kept confidential for reasons not need mentioning]

Instagram Reel I’m Remixing

Why "Food Freedom" Is a Fallacy

Freedom is counterintuitively found in giving MORE FUCKS. Being vulnerable. Putting yourself out there. Allowing people to see your healing journey as an extension of you - not a pulling away.

The fact is that the modern world, with its proliferation of hyper-palatable foods designed by scientists and billion-dollar marketing firms, demands you to be disciplined. It requires you to become a modern stoic. You are either going to fall for the false pleasures and quick fixes or drop into the pain of healing and long-term health.

This will make more sense if you listen to the audio version of this newsletter and follow me on Instagram where I posted this Instagram Reel.

Quote I’m Contemplating

The Power of Stopping

Stopping helps strengthen the muscle of patience that will permit you to return to the project again and again, and thus to sustain your productivity over an entire career.

— Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

Content from my YouTube Channel

Returning to the Nature Cure

Tweet I’m Retweeting

Passivity (not activity) is the Root of Life

Quote I’m Contemplating

How to Touch Non-Fear

We have a great, habitual fear inside ourselves. We’re afraid of many things - of our own death, of losing our loved ones, of change, of being alone. The practice of mindfulness helps us touch non-fear. It’s only here and now that we can experience total relief, total happiness. Sorrow, fear, and depression are like a kind of garbage. But these bits of garbage are a part of real life, and we must look deeply into their nature. We can practice so as to turn these bits of garbage into flowers. We should not throw anything out. All we have to do is learn the art of composting, of transforming our garbage into flowers"

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Tweet I’m Retweeting

Say No to Oat Milk

Podcast I’ve Enjoyed

The Root Cause of Disease Nobody Talks About

This has been one of the best podcasts I’ve listened to. Zach Bush weaves together so many threads in this that it’s actually a little overwhelming at times. But give it the time it deserves. Bottom line: now more than ever, we need to get back into nature to heal ourselves and the planet (and by ‘back into nature’ I don’t mean going vegan and supporting big food agenda — what I do mean is taking your shoes off and feeling the Earth’s vibrations; allowing the soil and rich air to coinhabit your vulnerable animal flesh).

Quote I’m Contemplating

Memento Mori

“Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose—for death is inevitable.”

— The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

Tweet I’m Retweeting

Big (vegan) Food Doesn’t Care About You (or the environment)

Projects I’m Proud Of

Two Dream Weddings: From Tuscany, Italy — to Wellington, Cape Town.

Besides creating content for my tribe — the awesome collective individuals such as yourself that are awakening your inner wisdom through meat-movement-mindfulness — on most days, I am a freelance photographer/filmmaker that creates content for global brands, as well as more bespoke visual storytelling endeavours like weddings, personal branding shoots and portraits.

Recently, I had the luxury of filming two dream weddings: one in Tuscany, Italy and the other in Wellington, Cape Town. Although these two destinations are vastly different in every way imaginable, the story that came out of them was the same — that of love.

Please give these two films a watch and let me know your thoughts.

Please enjoy this beautiful (and vulnerable) conversation with Mr Daniel Maté who recently co-authored The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

DANIEL MATÉ is a composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre based in BC and New York. He has been active since 2007, when he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing. He also holds a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from McGill. Daniel received the prestigious Edward Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist in American Musical Theatre, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Grant, and the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award for Excellence in Music and Lyrics (for his song cycle The Longing and the Short of It.) He has presented his work at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and New York’s Lincoln Center, and was an invited participant in the inaugural Johnny Mercer Writers Colony.

Daniel's website: https://www.danielmate.com/bio

Quote I’m Contemplating

"In the most health-obsessed society ever, all is not well."

— Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté, The Myth of Normal

Book I’ve Started Reading

The Courage to Let Go

“Behind all of the “I can’ts” are merely “I won’ts.” The “I won’ts” mean “I am afraid to” or “I am ashamed to” or “I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail.” Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride. Acknowledging and letting go of these feelings brings us up to courage and, with that, finally acceptance and an inner peacefulness, at least as it regards the area which has been surmounted.”

― David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Conversation I’ve Enjoyed

Daniel Maté on co-authoring THE MYTH OF NORMAL with his father: Dr Gabor Maté

Please enjoy this beautiful (and vulnerable) conversation with Mr Daniel Maté who recently co-authored The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.

DANIEL MATÉ is a composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre based in BC and New York. He has been active since 2007, when he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing. He also holds a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from McGill.

Nathan Maingard is the host of the We Are Already Free podcast. Nathan's podcast description from Spotify: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." A podcast helping free people to live their truth and be the change. For those who realise that broken systems can't fix the problems they are creating. If you are ready to let go of stories of isolation, scarcity, and overwhelm and you want to live a joyful, abundant life of vibrance, meaning and wonder...then this podcast is for you.

We Are Already Free Podcast: https://nathanmaingard.com/we-are-already-free-podcast/

From Nathan's website: I help down-to-earth seekers to feel, heal and grow so that they can live with the joy, meaning and childlike wonder which is every human’s birthright - https://nathanmaingard.com/

We dived into so many beautiful topics, including:

00:00 - Intro

00:15 - How Nathan Describes himself

02:26 - Tara from Slowdown Farmstead

6:00 - The inspiration for the We Are Already Free podcast

20:00 - Butterflies and Transcendence

24:57 - Nathan’s lessons from Loss

37:14 - Nathan’s experience with plant medicine, psychedelics and breath-work

56:53 - How Nathan deals with tech addiction

1:02:28 - Nathan’s experience with Vegan-ism

1:13:00 - Sign off and thank you’s

JOIN MY TRIBE: https://joshsnyman.substack.com/

Your body has wisdom; it has the capacity to heal itself through an ancestrally aligned meat-based keto diet, daily movement and conscious mindful awareness. Each week I send out a short newsletter on thoughts on books I've read, a quote or two I'm contemplating and anything else I think you'd enjoy to prime your subconscious with a dose of dopamine for the week ahead.

#wearealreadyfree #psychedelics #plantmedicine #ayahuasca #vegan #veganism #meatmovemind #meatbasedketo #mindfulness #KetoCarnivore #KetoDiet #KetoCarnivore #Ketovore #Fasting #IntermittentFasting #foodaddiction #meatbaseddiet #animalbased #animalbaseddiet #banting #bantingdiet #southafrica