Sophie Strand is a writer, poet, and compost heap based in New York's Hudson Valley. Her writing focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. In this episode she and Eric talk about rewilding the sacred masculine, apocalypses past and present, healing and trauma in this age of turmoil, making kin, and embracing incompletion, among other things.

Outline

• 00:00 - 03:36 — Episode introduction
• 03:36 - 07:58 — Lunations of masculinity
• 07:58 - 10:37 — Apocalypses past, present, and future
• 10:37 - 23:31 — Healing and trauma in this age of turmoil
• 23:31 - 30:07 — Making kin with life and land
• 30:07 - 37:16 — Looking critically at trauma
• 37:16 - 46:30 — Embracing compost and incompletion
• 46:30 - 49:38 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• Quillwood Academy
• Sophie Strand's Instagram (@cosmogyny)
• Sophie Strand on Facebook
• SophieStrand.com
• Sophie Strand's Substack
• The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, by Sophie Strand
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, by Donna Haraway
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolks
• Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, by Vanessa Machado de Oliviera

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