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This week on The Tiny Pod, in honour of last week's 81st UN General Assembly, is all About United.

The word united is past tense, implying unity, unison, union has already been achieved, but unions, and all relationships are active, and continuously in flux. The moment we stop actively pursuing unity, disunity naturally creeps in.

United is often used politically as a tool to both imply unity has been achieved, and to silence dissent and discourage inquiry. United in the context of United Nations, United Kingdom and United States is both aspirational and misleading.

As we explore what United means in political unions, we also discover what is true in any union, whether marriage, parenting or friendship, States, governments or organisations. Unity requires continuous review, negotiation and compromise. Relationships are alive and active, and although united is not a constant state, it can be touched through commitment and active participation, and can last if continuously pursued.

Families can bee united and yet have no sense of unity. Countries can be united against a common cause, while still disagreeing on others, and states can question the validity or strength of a union whilst still staying in that union. United is not unanimous agreement, it is what it always meant, an agreement to join together, to bring different parts into one cohesive whole, and that can only be done in truth. The obvious disunity at the UN this year was arguably the most honest reflection of the state of the United Nations, and it is in honesty that true unity can begin to be found.

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Love,

Miranda x

This week on The Tiny Pod I share an episode from Tiny Pod Patreon, About Shame.

Shame underscores and is entangled in so much of what we explore here on The Tiny Pod - dominance, enough, accountability, certainty.

Carl Jung writes, “Shame is a soul-eating emotion.” Unexamined shame is protected outward, children internalise their parents shame and the generational loop of shame continues. Intimacy requires the vulnerability and courage to be seen. Shame tells us to hide, making true relationship with others, and with ourself, impossible.

It is often those carrying the most shame who behave as if they have none, shamelessly.

I hope you enjoy the episode, and look forward to seeing you over at Patreon.

Miranda x

This week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Plagiarism, in honour of Dr Jason Arday.

Plagiarism originally meant kidnapper, child stealer, it was used to describe someone who kidnapped children or slaves, or sold free people into slavery. The word evolved to mean literary theft when the Roman poet Martial described Fidentinus as a kidnapper of his words, his brainchildren.

There is no original ground zero thought, we are all walking compilations of the experiences, art, literature, films, environment and people that surround us. The opposite of plagiarism is not originality, it is honesty. Plagiarism is copying the exact style and formation of another without attribution, it is in the concealment and dishonesty.

We are all part of a collective and when we share freely we build on what has come before to create something new, we see further "standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton wrote.

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Miranda x

This week I share with you an episode from The Tiny Pod on Patreon, about Enough.

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Abundance without a sense of enough becomes blind consumption. Enough is not a quantity, it is a choice. Examining what external standards we have internalised helps us reclaim our values and live by what matters to us personally, rather than constantly pursuing what others want.

Feeling enough is rooted in self-worth; no amount of anything can buy a feeling we don't already have, and when we truly feel enough, everything we have becomes more than enough, a bonus, overflowing and free to be shared. Feeling enough lets us love others fully without conditions, give freely without ledgers and live now, not later, when.

I hope you enjoy this bonus episode and look forward to interacting more deeply over on Patreon.

Love,

Miranda x

This episode is shared from The Tiny Pod on Patreon.

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This week on The Tiny Pod Patreon is all About Law, in honour of the courageous Filton 25, particularly those sentenced wrongfully as "terrorists."

Throughout history, social justice moved faster than law, and laws were only changed because ordinary people united, and courageously spoke truth to power. Abolitionists were executed for speaking out against slavery, the suffragettes were imprisoned, tortured, force fed and suffered life long injuries, the SS arrested and tortured families sheltering Jewish families, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, all because they broke laws because they believed in a higher law, and in humanity more than legislation.

Witnessing more than 3400 ordinary people in Britain being arrested and detained for holding up bits of cardboard reveals that law and justice are not the same thing, and power has not learnt from history. Law and justice are not the same thing. The Law asks what can be enforced, humanity asks what is the most loving thing to do. History is often where injustice is revealed most glaringly.

Law can grant a divorce, but it cannot heal a broken heart, and the disparity between legal resolution and emotional resolution is often enormous.

When we are internally guided by values, morals, truth and honesty, the need for external laws falls away. Moral law and government law are often directly opposed, but it is in bridging this gap, and in examining our own values, that we can build a world on fairness, and equality, instead of one dominated by power, technicalities, distorted truths and ledgers.

See you next week,

Miranda x

This article was written last year, and rejected by establishment media so I have chosen to share it here in light of Kemi Badenoch’s dangerous article in The Times.

She fails to reference all the reports and reviews :

Scarman Report, Lammy Review, IPCC review, IOPC and internal reviews, Baroness Casey Report, Dr Shereen Daniel’s Race Action Plan.. she does however mention the Macpherson inquiry in an attempt to weaken it and reverse the progress it made.

She calls for an “independent review” while failing to reference all the reviews and reports that have consistently revealed institutional racism in the police and the Police’s culture of self- protectionism.

The met police alone receive an annual budget of over £4.6billion and yet everyone interviewed for this article has experiences of ineffective policing. In fact I am yet to hear one story of successful policing. Ever.

The statistics show the same:

- only 6.6% of domestic abuse cases ever result in charges

- 2.9% of burglaries ever have any action

- 0.69% of car thefts are ever even looked into

- 0.6% of personal theft ever leads to tangible action

So what do the police actually do? Who do they protect and serve?

Baroness Casey observed they are “long on activity, but short on action.” I see no action at all.

This week on The Tiny Pod on Patreon is all about Misogyny, in honour of the courageous girls in Fordingbridge, the courageous women who survived the violence of the IDF when their flotilla was seized on route to Gaza, and all survivors of male violence.

People hear the word Misogyny and immediately get defensive. People think of it in its most extreme form as hatred for all women. But unexamined, internalised misogyny is much broader than that, and it is subtle too. It shows up often unconsciously as distrust of women, contempt, control, fear and dismissal. Women can internalise misogyny too, policing other women, competing with other women, being hyper critical of women's appearance, behaviour, mothering, judging female sexuality more harshly than men’s, and choosing male approval over female solidarity. It is how oppressive systems thrive, when the people being oppressed police themselves and each other.

Healing misogyny begins with awareness, because we cannot heal what we refuse to see, and curiosity, opening to exploring what assumptions, beliefs and feelings we have internalised but never examined. Healing for men often looks like allowing grief, grieving the tenderness they never had, childhood wounds, hurt from the mother figure, and examining ideas about masculinity they have inherited. Fear and hatred of women cuts men off from intimacy, connection and the most fulfilling freedom of being truly alive.

The truth is we are all equal, regardless of gender, geography, wealth, status, biology or race. Anything that contradicts that truth is false. Fear is a construct of the ego. Love is the truth, and love heals all wounds.

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This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Ceasefire. From the Latin word Cessare, meaning to stop, to yield, to give over, a ceasefire is an exhale, a nervous system rest and reset, and it is only when our nervous systems are parasympathetic, at rest, that we are able to see with clarity and a clear head, and negotiate real peace. Ceasefires create space for peace by stopping further harm, pausing active attacks, and giving clarity a moment to settle. It is a step towards armistice and peace, a pause, not permanent resolution but in that pause peace can be found.

As without, so within. When we let the word Ceasefire land on hearts, we feel relief, we soften, we put down our weapons of self-criticism, pressure, perfectionism and allow calm to settle. Ceasefire with ourselves is permission to stop fighting with our self, with others, and with the world. It is in allowing ourselves to be as we are, and others to be as they are, and let life keep lifing that we find peace and stop exhausting ourselves fighting against life as it is.

The practice of peace is to notice when we have picked the weapons back up, and choose again and again to put them down. It is a continual, committed practice that takes active surrender to life as it is, and commitment to no longer fighting reality.

A ceasefire is a conscious interruption of harm, in a system that has become used to conflict, and creates space for something new to emerge. It is not final, but often the first honest step towards lasting peace.

When we regulate our nervous systems we naturally, and consciously move away from anything and anyone that does not bring peace. And each time we choose peace, we choose to put the weapons down, we are really choosing ourselves, choosing each other, choosing love and choosing life. True ceasefire is positive, encouraging, hopeful and an invitation into deeper, lasting peace, joy and love.

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This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Faith.

Faith isn't just a feeling, it is a state of being fully sure. Faith is inner fortitude.

“Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Everything we now see was once unseen: houses, buildings, clothes, cars were all once just faith that they were possible. Faith is not 'I’ll believe it when I see it,' Faith is "I will see it when I believe it. I will see it because I believe it>

Faith is not a strategy, it is a frequency, a walk of life, a choice.

Faith is not subject to or dependent on external circumstances, faith remains constant. Faith is a choice that strengthens in endurance and comforts in the storms. Faith is connection.

I have loved creating podcasts here on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It took a leap of faith to begin the Tiny Pod, and what started as a Tiny Pod, a mustard seed of faith, has grown into a tree. This will be my last episode here on Spotify And Apple Podcasts. This sanctuary is moving to Patreon.

I am really excited about this next chapter. Patreon feels safe, secure and intentional, a community where people invest, choose and connect. I value my podcasts and am taking a leap of faith that Patreon will sustain The Tiny Pod.

To those who want to, I will see you on the other side on Patreon. To everyone else, I wish you peace, love and faith on your journey.

Miranda x

This week on The Tiny Pod is all About Terror.

Historically, terror is a tool used by governments for control, distraction away from their atrocities, to instil fear to paralyse any resistance.

Terror only survives when we are disconnected - from ourselves, from truth and from each other.

The solution is in your nervous system. When we are rooted in ourselves, we cannot be shaken by terror.

See you next week,

M x