Sophie Strand: Glitching towards a return to each other
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What do we need to interrogate about our dominant culture’s obsession with “wellness” — as well as its discomforts when confronted by illness? What does it mean to queer the concept of reciprocity and understand it as much more expansive than a palpable exchange of a give and take? And why do we need to refocus the idea of “community” on something that is rooted in place and proximity-oriented?
In this multi-layered episode, we are honored to share space with Sophie Strand for a round two interview to explore her latest book, The Body is a Doorway.
Join us as we chat about becoming more literate in the language of the more-than-human world, taking inspiration from fungi as both decomposers and recomposers, and glitching towards a return to each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, dear one. There is so much going on in the world right now. And I know I'm personally |
| 0:07.3 | feeling kind of overwhelmed and scattered. And I'm thinking about our recent discussions on the |
| 0:13.6 | need to slow down and to continue to return to practices and rituals that can ground us on a daily basis so that we can tap into |
| 0:24.3 | deeper change and transformation and show up for ourselves, our communities, and our earth |
| 0:31.0 | in the ways that they most need from us. You might have your own set of practices that you want to lean more deeply into, |
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| 1:03.1 | self-actualization, but earth actualization? What would it be like to engage in regular practices |
| 1:10.2 | that tether ourselves with our communities and with our more than human world? |
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| 1:47.7 | One of the concepts I've had to turn over and get really sober about is community, because I think |
| 1:53.6 | that it's a little bit of a buzzword now, and I don't think that it holds as much water as we think it does. |
| 1:59.4 | I mean, I think if someone doesn't live within a 10-mile |
| 2:02.2 | radius of your house, if you wouldn't actually go to their house and make them food, you're not |
| 2:08.3 | your community. You know, the people I'm connected with online are not my community. They're my, |
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