Earthly Reads: Tricia Hersey on WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape S1:2

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Continuing the first season of our Earthly Reads series, we are thrilled to share a new conversation with beloved guest Tricia Hersey. Sharing sweet balm from her new book WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape, Tricia reminds us of the art of being alive. In this meditative episode, Tricia asks listeners what it might mean to have faith in mystery and to begin without knowing the full course. Throughout the episode, she shares wisdom about the power of attempt and what it means to try without...

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0:00.0	Hello for the Wild community, Iana here.
0:11.4	Welcome to the second episode of our new book study series, Earthly Reads,
0:16.8	where we'll learn alongside some of our most beloved authors.
0:20.8	After listening to the shorter conversation,
0:23.2	head over to forethewild.world.
0:25.3	slash book study to learn more and to purchase access to the full course.
0:30.1	We'll be offering significantly more content and access to live,
0:34.4	recorded conversations with the authors on our website. We hope to see you there.
0:43.3	I love the idea of attempt. So this is my attempt for people to come with me on this journey,
0:52.9	to just attempt some things, you know, just to say,
0:55.8	I'm going to try. I know this isn't right. I know the way my body is being used by this system
1:01.2	feels unsustainable. I feel unhealthy. This feels wrong. Hello, welcome to For the Wild.
1:17.9	I'm Ianna Young.
1:19.3	Today we're speaking with Tricia Hersey, author of We Will Rest, The Art of Escape.
1:25.3	Oh, Tricia.
1:26.5	I am so happy to be here with you. You're making my day. So,
1:30.3	thanks for joining. I woke up this morning, so looking forward to it. I'm going to get to speak
1:35.5	with my buddy here. We're going to rant about some things and try to deepen into the softness
1:41.1	of things. But I'm very excited. Thank you for having me on as always.
1:47.0	The energy that I feel from you is so enlivening, and it's a really lovely day to speak.
1:55.1	It is pouring outside. You may hear the rain drops. I do. I was like, it's raining good there, yeah.
2:02.8	It's sideways rain. It's coming down. It's very cleansing. So we're in good company with the water here.
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