nature being

when you realize the story told about human nature is dangerously incomplete... that we are just as genetically close to bonobos as we are to chimpanzees, yet this is still less known. so this episode asks why — and what it costs us that we don't. we do a deep dive with the long-overlooked bonobo to examine dominant narratives that shaped Western civilization. that humans are naturally competi...

episode nine of nature being fatures the tender viral baby macaque *Punch* who becomes an doorway into a deeper truth, that we are mammals, innately wired for connection. we explore the science of our shared emotional circuitry with the help of Jaak Panksepp, founder of affective neuroscience, who mapped the ancient brain systems we share with other mammals: SEEKING, CARE, PLAY, GRIEF, FEAR, RAGE,...

this episode explores what it means to be a mammal…beyond language, culture, and these screens we're all so glued to. Inspired by Bad Bunny’s superbowl halftime show (yes, inspiration comes from every angle). we dive into the nuerological/biology of PLAY, CARE with a guest apparance of eros, drawing on the deeply moving, massively important work of neuroscientist and truly curious, incredible bein...

An episode exploring how we stay in conversation with life when death looks back. An encounter with a squirrel invites questions of care, loss, and ethical tensions we are living with. These episodes are guided by ecological psychology. Inviting grief, and what it means to remain soft, sensing, and relational in an unsedimented world. I have created a space for any questions/curiosities/feelings/f...

what happens when intelligence isn’t something we  possess , but something we  participate in ? this episode begins with Donna Haraways   "it matters what thoughts think thoughts"...what kind of thinking is shaping our thoughts and our world before we’re even aware of it? psychology and ecology entangle as we explore intelligence beyond the human brain as relational, distributed, ecologi...

This episode of nature being is an invitation to step away from polished outcomes and into process. With Beethoven as a muse and guide to live as a messy, living mammal. This episode explores creativity, ecology, and energy as ongoing exchange rather than perfected product and reflects on western culture’s fixation on results (often erasure or conceling the mess behind so much of what we often adm...

What if darkness isn’t something to avoid but what makes life and any flourishing possible, on earth and in our psyche? This episode explores  psychological composting : the necessary process of breakdown, decay, and renewal within the psyche. Drawing from ecological psychology and the living intelligence of soil, worms, fungi, and darkness itself, we're invited to tend what we’ve buried; grie...

This episode explores what it means to be a human animal in a modern world that overwhelms our still very ancient, sensitive nervous systems. We look at how constant stimulation and individualization can pull us away from deep mammalian needs we’re still wired for. Like touch, attunement, connection, ecology, and meaning. With reflections on grief, instinct, and the emotional lives of other specie...

nature being is a space to micro-dose ecological psychology. to remember that we are mammals sharing a more-than-human world. to attune, listen, and explore what it means to be a body in a living world; where we porously exchange nutrients, ideas, and curiosities. a space to reunite psychology and ecology. teachers cited in this epside are Dr. Lori Pye and Robin Satonstall and where it all began @...

a continued opening to nature being , where we’re invited to remember ourselves as ecological, mammalian beings living in deep relationship with a living earth, contemplating the body, brain, heart, microbiome, and inherited cultural stories. this episode explores ecological psychology as something ancient, deeply relational, and always alive within us. to slow down, question myths of separation,...

nature being is a space to micro-dose ecological psychology. to remember that we are mammals sharing a more-than-human world. to attune, listen, and explore what it means to be a body in a living world; where we porously exchange nutrients, ideas, and curiosities. a space to reunite psychology and ecology, which have always belonged together. to slow down. drop in. and sense deeply. as beings, of...