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

on 'laziness' and climbing mountains

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

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.
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Here’s to climbing our mountains,

Kate

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(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

I care with every fiber of my being that you, a creature of soul and soil, are trying to thrive in systems not designed for you. Where ancient wounds of disconnect, inherited traumas, and misalignments with our over-culture leave you feeling out of place, too much, or like a canary in the mine, I see invitations back deeper into your own aliveness; vital next steps to a wiser, more relational future. Let’s navigate your big questions and transitions together. I’ll support you living meaningfully in this world even though you may feel like you were designed for a different one. I’ll keep you orienting to the truth, heart, and essential wholeness of who you are at the edge of great joy and when you need your feet held to the fire of your own journey. You can see what I offer: www.wildsacredjourney.com and sign up to get a little bit of me, direct to your inbox!

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