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.
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“Should I stay, or should I go?”
In this BeWild Files episode of BEWILDERED®, Martha and Ro dive into this question—and they say that the first step is to question our thoughts.
Why?
Because problems often come from our thoughts about our [...]
Have you ever had the sense of being pulled towards something…but you had no idea why?
Martha and Ro call this mysterious feeling “the pull,” and they’re talking all about it in Episode 55 of BEWILDERED®. They share examples of [...]
Anxiety in the culture—what exactly is going on there?
That’s what Martha and Ro are trying to figure out in this special Anxiety Files episode of Bewildered.
As a society we create structures to control things and keep us safe so [...]
Anxiety is like breathing for Martha and Rowan…maybe it is for you too?
If so, you are sooo not alone! All over the world, anxiety is skyrocketing, and Martha and Ro are exploring this subject in depth over a series [...]
Most of us are plagued with the fear that we’re not doing enough—it’s practically the fuel our culture runs on. We’re pressured to constantly do more and more, and we’re taught that suffering is necessary for success.
But where is [...]
In this BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Kathryn about how to live a balanced life each day instead of bouncing between extremes.
While our culture demands high-level productivity all year round, the [...]
Martha and Ro are doing something completely different for this episode of Bewildered, teaming up with their friends Eric Zimmer and Ginny Gay from The One You Feed podcast.
Tune in as they talk about what drags you into the [...]
When it comes to the topic of jobs, the culture has a lot to say—and all of it is scary. There’s a strict path we’re expected to follow, which we’ve been led to believe is the only logical way.
In [...]
In this episode of Bewildered, 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 for [...]
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro talk about drift patterns, the cultural currents we can get stuck in that could be carrying us far away from our true nature.
One function of cultural patterns is to “save” us [...]
It’s another BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, and Martha and Ro are answering a question from listener Gazit, who’s trying to co-parent with a difficult ex, and the experience does not feel joyful or authentic.
Martha says when trying to [...]
There will always be hard things we have to do in life. That’s just a given. So how do we go about doing them without suffering?
Martha and Rowan say the key is freedom, and in this episode of Bewildered [...]
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Rowan are talking all about emotional energy—the moods, feelings, or intentions that come across without any words or physical action.
This kind of energy can be a powerful teacher and director of the [...]
Have you ever bravely shared your authentic self, only to agonize over it later thinking you shared too much?
We’ve all been there. It’s what Brené Brown calls a ‘vulnerability hangover,” and Martha and Ro are taking a deep dive [...]
Our culture teaches us that we should jam as many things as possible into our days, and many of us learn to equate success with how many things we’ve checked off our to-do lists or how much stuff we’ve [...]
Do you enjoy setting goals but have a harder time reaching them?
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro talk about how to travel from where we are in life to where we want to be—and how our cultural [...]
Procrastination. We’ve all been there.
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro explore why we procrastinate (hint: cultural conditioning strikes again) and how we can find our way out of it by listening to—and negotiating with—the wild parts of [...]
Many of us buy into the cultural idea that there is only one way to parent, and if we do it correctly, things will turn out okay, and everyone will approve of us. But when grown children leave home, [...]
Can we be free from the culture if we still use language? That’s the question Martha and Ro discuss in this episode of Bewildered. While we are all encased in the language we learned as children, when we learn [...]
Blowing up your life—why such violent imagery?
Martha and Rowan say it’s because the culture is so powerful you need an explosion to break out of it!
On this BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, they talk about making the decision to [...]
