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!
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 [...]
This is a spicy time in history, and in between bouts of fear, we’ve been thinking about how to navigate through potentially dark and dangerous times.
Want to know our go-to strategy? Trusting our intuition!
In this episode of Bewildered, we [...]
Intuition is like a call from destiny that we often miss because we’re always “on the other line” with culture.
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro explore the concept of intuition and how to connect with it amidst [...]
Martha and Ro are back with another episode of Bewildered, and it’s a follow-up to their “Why So Anxious?” episode. This time they’re talking about how not to be anxious, and why moving beyond anxiety is linked to creativity, [...]
Do you suffer from the odd bit of anxiety?
In this Bewildered, Martha and Ro are talking about Martha’s new book Beyond Anxiety, which examines the causes of anxiety, its prevalence in our culture, and tried-and-true ways to overcome it.
Martha [...]
In this Best of Bewildered episode, Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Josephine, who’s trying to understand and overcome her resistance to doing things that are good for her.
The culture tells us that if something is good [...]
Martha and Ro have a very special guest on this Best of Bewildered episode…Ro’s mum Paula!
Paula has a mind-expanding story to tell about the time she followed monarch butterflies on their migratory path and learned that 10% of these [...]
Do you ever lie awake, burning with embarrassment about something awkward you said or did?
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro are talking about how those awful, awkward moments (like when your child pulled your pants down in [...]
Have you ever woken up feeling like you’re off course, as if you somehow missed an exit you were meant to take?
This happened to Martha recently, and on this episode of Bewildered, she and Ro are talking about how [...]
Martha and Ro are digging into their BeWild Files for this episode of Bewildered, answering listener Mandy’s question about the distinction between drifting in a cultural current versus surrendering to cosmic guidance.
They talk about the difference between the behaviors [...]
Martha and Ro are back with a different kind of episode this time, to introduce something they are crazy excited about…
It’s called Wilder: A Sanctuary for the Bewildered—and it’s a new online space where they can hang out with [...]
We all have a “control mode” inside us that tells us if we don’t tightly control everything, it’s all going to go wrong. The only problem is…it’s literally impossible to control everything!
Sometimes a little control is necessary, but often [...]
Hey there, Cahootniks! Martha and Ro are back with another episode of Bewildered, inspired by their recent discovery of a “secret” society that’s been playing a game right out in the open, all over the world… The game is [...]
Do you enjoy making shiny, pretty things—or, as Martha and Ro like to call them, “precious, pointless” things?
These can be anything you make for the sheer enjoyment of creating, rather than for making money (which our culture believes is [...]
