Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00
In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.
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A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection
We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.
The garden in the mind, your mind on your garden
Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.
Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns
Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.
My Permaculture Wealth Building Journey
Permaculture offers a rich toolkit for designing for holistic abundance not only in our landscapes, but our personal finances as well.
How to get started with zone 00 design? My experience with designing my inner landscape
This article is the second of a series about designing for your inner landscape | you can read the first part there: What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!
Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves
When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:
Poetics of communication
There’s an issue that needs addressing, like a PO-box of understanding, of enthusiastically awaiting new mail to arrive, like the birds of yesterday in harmonic screeches of today’s fairy tales.
What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!
I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.
Colonial Trauma: No, I Won’t Confess, I Will Say It Out Loud!
A poem about wounds created by Patriarchy, Religion, and Capitalism.
How to learn humility for a better tomorrow
by Matilde Magro Step by step guide of 10 easy…
Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play
Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.
Caring for (More-than-Natal) Kin in Times of Loss
I think of the countless beings displaced by and lost to the flames, of the places and plants and memories mingling in the ash, of all those struggling to breathe.
How to Have Difficult Conversations
How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.
Empathy For a Houseplant
The plant sat in the clearance section of a grocery store for a few dollars looking thirsty and in need of rescue
My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership
I only wish to become old if I can also become an elder.
Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos
The future of life on Earth is uncertain and our lifetimes are finite. Consider our own deaths as well as the possibilities of climate catastrophe.
Watering Our Seeds
There is resilience in everything..in seeds too..and perhaps plants learn resilience as they grow.
Kindness Circles, surrounding community
It’s interesting how a simple act of kindness can multiply itself into thousands of good deeds in a short time, but how does that happen?
Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.
Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban…
For your inspiration: Sabarmatee
A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and…
We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)
Stitched up as we are I figure we can Lilo…
Approaching menopause as a childfree woman
By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties,…
War, what is it good for?
War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.
Confronting Shame — The Last Door
By Julia Pereira Dias Shame spits into your romantic dinner.…
Archetypes and the power to transform
By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying…
Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy
Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As…
The Best Advice
By Julia Pereira Dias Aren’t we the selfless ones? “My…
Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture
By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together…
Strength and Resistance à la Woman
Learning a new way of living from an elder Iranian farmer…
Are You Willing To Receive?
By Julia Pereira Dias Most of us are primarily concerned…
A Simple Meditation for Pandemic, Climate Emergency and Other Disasters
By Dido Dunlop In times like now, our emotional strength…
Mapping and landing in a living world: how a Permaculture Design Course helped me organize my life
When I enrolled in a Permaculture Design Course in 2013, my youngest child was only three months old, and we had only recently landed in Scotland. I had spent most of my adult life away from Scotland…
Cuando el ecosistema natural ya no existe
Notas desde La Pampa, Argentina By Rosaura Ruiz Hace más…
How to have a healthy mental breakdown
By Priya Logan ( Even in the face of larger…
How to Free Yourself from Expectations
By Julia Pereira Dias Nothing causes as much frustration as…