on 'laziness' and climbing mountains


Dear ones -

We each have a fire within us.

And we need our fire in these times, perhaps more than ever.

What if your fear of being seen as lazy is wasting your fire and contributing to your burnout?

And what if what we’ve been taught to consider as laziness is our body and brain trying to recalibrate back to more sustainable cycles of efforting and rest?

Your desire to contribute and make a difference is a genuine and beautiful thing… and when it gets entangled with (often unconscious and unexamined) societal conditioning around the evils of laziness and the glories of productivity… we end up primed for burnout.

Today's episode contains my musings on laziness, burnout, our inner fires, and some practices I've been exploring while climbing mountains which are helping me unlearn 'striving' and move from more sustainable cycles of effort and rest.

Here's to the pleasure of challenges which feed us, not drain us.

Here's to the joy of good work, done beautifully and humanely.

If you try the exercises with me, let me know how it goes?

I’d love to hear.

Here’s to climbing our mountains,

Kate

(and here are some pictures from some recent hill walks I've done here in the Cairngorms in Scotland - the same park and mountains where last year I first started playing with the walking nervous system exercise I talk you through in the podcast episode)

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Hi! I'm Kate - an intuitive, medicine woman, and guide for embodied Presence

Are you a compassion warrior, culture worker, and rebel who cares deeply about humanity; who's tired of doing all the “right things” and still getting what you’re trying to avoid; and who feels trapped between burning it all down or dying but would rather be wildly, and sacredly alive? I'm an animist and ancestral wisdom guide; ceremonialist, and empath. And I love guiding other humans who want to use their burnout and purpose anxiety as a jumping-off point to journey into their shadows and the shadows of modern society in order to de-armor their hearts; remember a deeper, wilder sense of belonging to the world; and reclaim the rich and sacred spark of their aliveness. This newsletter contains wisdom nuggets, podcast episodes, and invitations to paid and free offerings from my business. All in support of remembering a more animist and land-based culture; holding firm to our humanity in a dehumanizing world; and living with compassion, vulnerability, and reverence.

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