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Episode 39 - Doing something about it
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Episode 39 - Doing something about it

Confessions of a bad Taoist

One day the internet will fail

First come family and friends, the bushel of people I love most. When my world suddenly changed and I came home to roost a mile from my birthplace, I realised instinctively that rebuilding a meaningful life came from committing to love and being loved by this group of people, and that other goodness would flow from this. I had tried to please or placate, control or ignore people and things in pretty much every combination and situation an adult life could offer, and I had exhausted both myself and my options. In making one simple, radical, decision to uncentre my self2 and to reorient towards being-in-relation, often with my actual blood relatives, I was set free.


First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, August 7th 2023.

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