What if we stopped listening to the controlling voice of the culture around us, and instead learned to reconnect with our own true nature?
Sometimes we aren’t even sure why we feel so bewildered… and discontented… and even downright miserable. Often it’s because we have let the forces of society replace our own instinctive knowledge of what is right for us.
Now, it’s time for us to find that voice again—before it’s too late.
For Martha and Rowan, Job One is to live according to our deepest truths, making the commitment to feeling good even when it means looking weird. We believe that this is how we will reinvent our world—from the inside out— to create a society that’s kinder, more equitable, and more ecologically sustainable than the one we see around us right now.
This is the vision that we laugh and stumble and chat and feel our way towards here on this podcast. Did we mention LAUGH? We want no part of personal and global transformation if it isn’t fun!
So if you struggle to find a place where people who are as idealistic and brokenhearted, as silly and deeply sincere, as bewildered as you are—you might have just arrived.
Welcome!
Do you suffer from “resting misery face”? Many of us do, and in this episode of Bewildered, we’re diving into exactly why that is.
A few hints: It has to do with the brain’s “default mode network,” our hardwired negativity [...]
Have you ever been willing to “give up anything” for something you wanted? On this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about the spiritual lesson that to be truly open to receiving something new, we first have to put something [...]
Does your life ever feel like a game of Tetris, where you get totally overwhelmed by all the pieces coming at you?
In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about how to get through the chaos that is modern life: [...]
Are you looking for ways to handle life when the culture’s rules no longer apply, and everything keeps changing at warp speed? In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about “flying blind” with confidence—trusting your body’s wisdom, adapting to [...]
We all need to take things in to keep us hydrated, not just physically, but also creatively. In this episode of Bewildered, we discuss what we call “filling the well”—receiving great art, stories, and creativity from others—and how it [...]
We’re in the middle of moving house (and Ro’s turning 45!) so our whole daily rhythm is being shaken up. But disruptions can be a great opportunity to consciously redesign your life. In this episode of Bewildered, we explore [...]
What does a text about chickens have to do with the meaning of life? We’re glad you asked! In this episode of Bewildered, we examine how our culture teaches us to avoid touch, fear time, and forego relationships for [...]
Our culture believes that the only way to fix all the bad stuff in the world is to stare at it relentlessly, as if our sheer focus could solve things. (Or at least prove we’re not part of the [...]
Do you find it difficult to share your unique offerings with the world? How about charging money for your work?
In this “Best of” episode of Bewildered, we dive into a question from listener Rebecca who’s trying to find the [...]
“QUICK! DO THIS NOW! IT’S URGENT!”
Do those words spike your pulse? We’re constantly pressured to do things that serve the system, and we’re trained to think of these things as urgent. But are they?
In this “Best of” episode of [...]
In our culture we’re socialized to believe that if we suffer enough, we’ll be rewarded later—and our reward will be happiness. In other words, happiness is something we have to earn through suffering.
On this “Best of” episode of Bewildered, [...]
Ever suffer from burnout? We certainly have, and we’re talking all about it on this “Best of” episode of Bewildered!
Burnout is something our culture doesn’t allow because it expects us to be productive non-stop. However, our wild natures require [...]
“Should I stay, or should I go?”
It’s an age-old dilemma, and we’re exploring it in this “Best of” episode of Bewildered!
To figure out when to stay or leave, we must first examine our thoughts. Often our struggles come from [...]
One way to deal with the constant, terrifying changes in all of our lives is to choose the worldview of a pilgrim—someone who doesn’t see life as a series of fixed positions but as a continuous, fluid process or [...]
Did you know that the world needs your art?
On this special episode of Bewildered, our friends Amie McNee and James Winestock join us to talk about Amie’s new book, We Need Your Art—and why your creativity matters now more [...]
Kindness. Our culture often frames it as something weak, naive, foolish, or passive—and there’s a reason for that. If we stay “nice” and subscribe to the culture’s idea of kindness, then we stay obedient and easier to control.
So in [...]
At the beginning of this game called life, we each get a human—a body that we get to steer through the world.
In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about the idea of “training your human”—because you are not your [...]
Have you ever been drawn into conspiratorial thinking?
In this Episode 99 of Bewildered, we’re talking about how easy it is to get pulled into conspiracy theories because of a phenomenon called apophenia. It’s the tendency to perceive connections or [...]
“Your money, or your life.” Those two things are very, very different, but in our culture, they tend to get blended together. That’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Bewildered.
We explore how our culture is so focused [...]
Noise. It’s ever-present in our culture, and often it affects us in ways we don’t even realize.
In this episode of Bewildered, we explore how different sounds impact the nervous system—from disrupting sleep to interfering with brain waves to triggering [...]
