The Relational Intelligence of the Body
Following a total knee replacement, psychologist Penelope Neckowitz explores how the body's innate intelligence teaches courage, trust, and resilience.
The Illusion of Control
In this excerpt from Trembling, Still, Stephen Jenkinson reflects on Parkinson’s disease, mortality, and the unraveling of modern fantasies of control. Fierce, lyrical, and unsentimental, the work asks what it means to live truthfully within uncertainty and diminishment.
The Mythology of Abuse
This essay breaks cultural silences surrounding childhood sexual abuse, revealing how myths of spectacle obscure everyday harm. Through personal truth and somatic practice, Abigail Testaberg explores pathways from fragmentation toward embodied safety and communal care—reminding us that healing is slow, relational work, a form of visible repair in a wounded world.
Climate Reports
The power and abundance of our Earth can never be overstated; what is commonly overlooked is humanity's exploitation and neglect of its own life source.
Consumption As The Path
I had to consume everything. I had to try every possible avenue of filling the God-sized hole from the outside before I could even fathom the possibility that the emptiness and energy swimming through the cosmos was the same emptiness and energy swimming inside of me.
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Sound and music are very powerful, and we as emotional beings are sensitive to what we hear. We do not only hear with our ears but with our whole bodies.
Green Medicine
I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Perhaps more than anything, to become elder is to be comfortable with your place in the world.
Tending the Wild
What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.