If you feel like you’re quietly losing your mind while the world carries on like everything’s normal, then I have good news: You are not only quite sane indeed but pretty amazing. Let’s be friends. 

In this episode, I roll out the picnic blanket of shared madness and invite you to sit on it with me while we explore the paradoxes and absurdities that make the nice people feel like they’re the crazy ones.

We touch on:

• What I mean by "mad" and "crazy" 
• The way paradoxes and contradictions dog our lives
  Oooh a dog!
• How this affects our brains and bodies (and leads to the mad feeling)
• A helpful framing from Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects 
• What nature has to say about this
• Some imperfect suggestions of how to be with all this
  
  

Mentioned or relevant:

• Episode: We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
• Just one swear but it’s needed: “headfckry”
• Nature’s a fan of Alanis Morisette
• The piece I mention is here How to Get Your Citizens to Think They Are The Problem (& Not You): A Cheat Sheet for Psychotic Systems
• Get support or guidance from me here
• The people I work with are using this as a companion resource at the moment: An Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
• If you’d like updates and invitations,  pop yourself on to my Friends List
• I write on Substack too—come hang out there if you wanna.
• Show me your chaotic art on Bluesky
• The Work That Reconnects can be explored here 
• The Common Earth Insights course is coming up soon, too: join me here (it's fully funded at no cost to you)
• Everything I do is by donation or gift. You can donate to support my work here if you want (thank you, amazing person)
  
  

Gosh what a stupendous amount of links.

Thank you so much for being with me today. You are the orange to my peel 🍊