In this episode of the Quillwood Podcast, host Eric Garza explores how the converging crises of our time invite us to invest at least as much effort and resources in the goal of adaptation as we do the goal of sustainability. Eric also reflects on the need to learn to regulate (and co-regulate) our nervous systems as a prerequisite of good decision-making, and how subsistence skills can not only help us do that, but can afford deeper healing and a sense of agency.

Outline

• 00:00 - 03:02 — Introduction
• 03:02 - 05:43 — Stories of resting squirrels
• 05:43 - 12:42 — Questioning sustainability
• 12:42 - 19:46 — Partnering with change through adaptation
• 19:46 - 29:13 — Subsistence, agency, and healing
• 29:13 - 30:33 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• Eric's Patreon page
• Quillwood Academy
• Planetary boundaries (Stockholm Resilience Center)
• Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
• A Tale of 100 Acorns, by Eric Garza (essay on acorn processing)
• The Polyvagal Theory (Counseling Today)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk