I'm Autumn Brown, an attachment theory skeptic and triflin hoe, living on Dakota in the

Shinobu land, currently known as Minneapolis. I'm Adrian Marie Brown, a writer, choosing every day,

not to be a cult leader, even though I have really fantastical and fact-based conspiracy theories.

I'm also a student of love and miracles, an emergent strategist and pleasure activist,

living in the land of the Shakuri, Skarurei, Tuscarora, and Lundi people. And this is how to survive the

end of the world. Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

And we are back in the studio. That's true. So our last episode was a beautiful voice memo note

experiment, but now we're back with our microphones in the Zoom room. Not in bathtubs, not in backyards.

To continue our all about love season and honor of Bell Hooks. And as per you, we're going to start

with a little check-in, Sister Agress. How are you this fine, beautiful day? Overall, I'm really good.

I've been going through a lot of shifts and changes in my life lately, some of which are going to

come up in this episode. And there's been a feeling of being in the rapids, like everything's

moving really fast. And me feeling like, oh, yeah, I have to be up for that. I have to move

really fast, too, because everything like this is opportunity for change. And I'm in the portal.

Just having this today, this week, just noticing I was feeling so exhausted. And I was like,

grow how much spiritual healing world processing work can you do at one moment? It's okay to slow it

down. Maybe you can climb up onto a boulder in the rapids. Just take a little break. Let's

fall off to the side. Get on the shore, lay out, dry out. So, yeah, I'm good. But it's one of those

moments where I thought I was doing really good. And then some of my close people were like, hey,

you're a little, it's a little spinning. It's a little frenetic. It's a little frenetic.

Yeah. You know, like, can you feel the ground? Which is also, my therapist is always like that.

She's like, wow, that's a lot. Can you take a breath? Can you feel the ground? You know,

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