On this episode of the Nurture Pod Iris and Ginger dive into the owners manual for the body- ody-ody. Just because the culture has a speedometer that goes up to 180mph doesn't mean our bodies can or should try to go that fast. 

What are the dash lights that we ignore on our way to physical and emotional breakdowns? When do we pull over and let our engine cool down and when do we limp it down the road? 

We drive this analogy all over the place! 
Come along for the ride and share your thoughts in the comments. 

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To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this third and final episode of grief conversations with therapist and retreat leader Joshua Lowe, we talk about what it means to live in a culture without  connection to ancestors.

Ancestral grief is the 5th gate in Francis Weller's book "The Wild Edge of Sorrow". Here's where we grieve the loss of connection not to our personal family line but also to  cultural traditions around honoring and receiving wisdom from ancestors.

Also unpacked is why it's important for a culture to instill a sense of connection to past and future generations. Thinking of ourselves as future ancestors creates a desire to pay it forward in terms of leaving the planet and our families in better shape than we found them. 

The hyper individualism and rationalism of western industrial culture has promoted "me" above the natural world and anyone not directly in relationship to "me" now. It's a transactional worldview where "me" is owed something from the generation before but I have no obligation to provide anything back. In fact there is often antagonism between generations with the youth and elders pitted against one another.

Grieving the loss of relationship to ancestral magic, wisdom and becoming is part of the work we are here to do.

Register for the upcoming Grief Retreat on 10/11-10/13 here.

Find out more about Joshua Lowe's retreats and therapy practice here

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger talk once again with therapist and grief ritual leader Joshua Lowe about the different ways that grief shows up personally and collectively in the culture. How can we create lasting change if we aren't willing to let go of the past? How do we let go of the past unless we willing to grieve it?

Click here to sign up for the Oregon Coast Community Grief Ritual happening from 10/11-10/13

Special shout out to Francis Weller author of the Wild Edge of Sorrow for creating the language of the 5 gates of grief and to Sonbonfu Some and Malidoma Some and the Dagara people of Burkina Faso for holding the lineage of the grief ritual work that is being offered in the west today.

The quote Ginger reads is by David Kessler from Brene Brown's podcast "Unlocking Us"; 

"Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining."

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger welcome their very first Nurture Pod Guest! 

Therapist, grief tender, community ritual leader (and Ginger's cousin) Joshua Lowe joins the pod to talk about this misunderstood emotion and the role it plays in our lives and culture. 

On October 11-13th Joshua Lowe will be coming to Nehalem to co-facilitate a weekend community grief ritual with Ginger and other community members at the White Clover Grange. 

Why would anyone want to spend a weekend dealing with grief?

That's the question we dive deep into as we unpack the reasons it's important to grieve and especially why to grieve in community with others.  

This is the first in a series of conversations about grief and culture so stay tuned for more! 

If you're interested in joining the ritual weekend in October please check northfork53.com for more info and tickets. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the nature of reality and the concept of dream time. 

One hemisphere of our brain is tuned into the mystical, non linear world of connection and creativity with the ability to see reality in a very different way than the other side of our brain. 

Western Industrialized Culture could be just a massive dream projection of a part of brain that is obsessed with control and safety. 

What if reality as you know it is a dream that the left side of your brain is clinging to?

This is something indigenous peoples have known for a very long time. It is intertwined with the very roots of our humanity. 

We have senses wired to a part of our brain that we no longer understand how to access. 

In this episode we look at some simple ways to shift back to a more nurturing perspective of life. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

Recorded the eve of the full blue moon in Aquarius! 

The astrology of this moment can't be put in a jar and saved for later. It's happening right now. 

In this episode Iris and Ginger check in on the vibes as we are bathed in the light of a rather sticky, squared up retrograde opposition between the collective (Aquarius moon) vs the personal (Leo sun). 

What does it mean to be self sufficient? Is it just another myth of individualism?
A way to avoid building communities that would challenge the culture at large?

We sort through old jars of pickles along with old beliefs that sustainability can be achieved on an individual level. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the idea and practice of working with the material realm.

How and why we imbue the objects around us with meaning. 

Is there such a thing as sacred outside of our own minds and beliefs? 

Do things mass produced in China become talismans if we fill them with intention or is the magic in the handcraft and time we put into it. 

What matters when it comes to matter - and why does it matter to us?

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
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To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss the ways that we come back to ground. 

The different ways of understanding how the body restores and draws power from our connection to nature. 

What we perceive as real/important in the dominant culture is designed to make us feel overwhelmed and pulled in many directions at once. 

Nurture Culture is rooted in the Earth and our ability to connect to what is alive and present in the moment. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss how nature uses the heat of mid July to sort out what seeds will ripen for the fall harvest. This is often a moment when we realize that not all our spring plans are going to make it this year. 

Call it a sense of overwhelm or despair or maybe even relief... but some apples must drop in order for the tree to be healthy. Some plants won't survive a summer heat wave and others will. Not because they are "better" but maybe they just had the luck of growing in a spot with some afternoon shade. 

Summer calls for us to let go of what's not working and our attachments to what we thought was going to happen. Let go of the illusion of control and the fallacy of sunk costs. The apples that drop are not failures- they are part of the process of ripening. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

In this episode Iris and Ginger discuss The Fifth Sacred Thing - a novel by Starhawk of two potential futures that play out in California.  

The book gives a glimpse into the power of writing a future that inspires rather than the apocalyptic wasteland that's shown so often in the media.

A key part of nuture culture is the ability to understand what seeds we are planting for future generations and how we want that future to look. 

Calling all positive futurists! Give us a comment if you have a resource, book, podcast, movie that you love showing a healthy thriving future on planet Earth. 

If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find. 

To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit
https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/

To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit:
https://nurturenation.org

Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home