Topics include: A chat about why this podcast will be evolving toward including guests; on Information Overload and why I don't want to contribute to it; why re-connecting with old friends is great and inspires me to have conversations with with regular fascinating people on this podcast; pondering Gabor Mate’s model of addiction as being a result of childhood trauma and wondering how collective trauma fits into it; reconciling my idyllic childhood and my adult addiction with this model; how learning the people’s history postmodern model tuned me into collective trauma and white guilt, leading me into drug addiction; Thomas Hubl’s work on collective trauma and how to heal it we need to slow down to allow the trauma space to heal; my experience from last summer supporting this idea of Hubl’s and the amazing, healing experience of being a part of him working with a person in the Rebel Wisdom community doing this; why we shouldn't feel shame for needing to go into a shell in order to survive life’s many challenges; the fascinating, challenging experience of doing emergence work; why being quiet in a group is hard for me as an ENFP; how hustle culture both creates trauma and makes it hard to address past trauma; the Smith College story; some final thoughts on how the economic realities many face are creating these traumas.
Links:

Thomas Hubl's website
James Howard Kunstler's blog post about the Smith College story
The Go-Fund me page (and videos from) Jodi Shaw of Smith College

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