Nonsense in the Chaos

In this week's episode of Nonsense in the Chaos, I explore the tension between celebrating our unique gifts and becoming consumed by the modern obsession with personal branding, fame and being seen. Drawing on indigenous culture, psychology and everyday life, I ask whether we've confused individuality with individualism... and what we've lost along the way. From the rise of celebrit...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m sitting down with my adventure buddy, Edd Stone. We spend a lot of our working lives together, whether that’s as Astro Guides at the Observatory peering out into the vastness of space, or with Adventure Sark, taking people scrambling over rocks, out onto the sea in kayaks, dangling off cliffs coasteering, or trying their hand at archery and shooting. Edd is...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I recorded sat back up in my favourite tree, Satine... or what remains of her. She took the full force of this winter's storms and though she's still alive, just, she stands now in a different form.  Sitting beneath her in the heat, I found myself reflecting on the strange threshold we seem to be standing in as a species. The air feels different. The s...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m gathering the roots. The Witchfool Are You? journey began on Monday and already something fascinating is unfolding. Sometimes we think we’re leading the ritual, holding the space or guiding the path, but then life quietly turns and reveals that something is leading us too. In this episode I’m reflecting on the threads, synchronicities and whispers that are...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I climbed a tree. After finding myself peopled out and carrying the lingering sadness that can follow when alcohol leaves our closest relationships feeling a little bruised and out of tune, I spent the day perched among the branches, seeking refuge in the way I always have. From childhood memories of running away into nature and escaping the pressures of school...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , we're venturing into the abyss. Not the dramatic, mythic kind filled with monsters and ancient gods... but the very real places within ourselves we'd rather avoid. For me, the demon waiting in the dark is money. The stories I carry about worth, security, success and scarcity have a habit of resurfacing whenever I think I've finally made peace wit...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m joined by the wonderful AJ... a curious soul walking the delicate line between care, academia, activism and joy. Working within the NHS as a mental health nurse supporting families in a deeply pressured system, AJ brings both compassion and honesty to the conversation. Currently completing the first two years of her doctorate, with her thesis beginning in Se...

Turns out the HRT was working… because when it ran out unexpectedly last Friday, the wheels fully came off the train. Add getting ill on top, and this week’s podcast has arrived slightly later than usual. In the new episode of Nonsense in the Chaos I’m talking about grounding and recalibrating during the busy headiness of Gemini Season, tending the home fires, avoiding burnout, and how to begin ag...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m joined by Ben the Shaman, who opened this year’s La Beltane Festival in the middle of a thunderstorm. As torrential rain lashed the valley and festival-goers huddled beneath the gazebo, Ben stepped directly into the storm to bless the land, calling to Pachamama, spirit, the heavens and the directions. Slowly the rain softened, the skies cleared, and the fest...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m talking about how strong, grounded, and genuinely supported I feel after this year’s La Beltane Festival here on Sark. The day began with absolute chaos... an unexpected torrential downpour just as everything was starting. For a moment, it felt like the whole thing might unravel. But the crew held steady, everyone pulled together, and we somehow ran a very...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m joined by my best friend, Saffron Issac… a woman who has walked alongside me through more lifetimes than one. We met as teenagers in a Tudor re-creation and have been in each other’s lives ever since, from free parties and muddy rave fields, to sharing a home at the turn of the millennium in Brighton, to slowly, fiercely carving out our own lives and callin...

This week I’m sitting in the strange and beautiful in-between of arrival. A new home, new rhythms, new ways of inhabiting both space and self. There’s something about learning how to live in a place that mirrors learning how to live in a new phase of life… and right now, both are shifting at once. As I move deeper into the perimenopausal threshold, I can feel the stirrings of what I’m calling the...

This week I take a deep dive into the wild adventure that is menopause with my guest Elaine Le Feuvre. Elaine is a passionate advocate for the Red School, which teaches women to work with their menstrual cycles, and for the Wisewoman’s Journey through menopause, seeing it as a deeply spiritual rite of passage. Known across the Channel Islands for her work as an aromatherapist, Elaine has led a ric...

This week’s episode arrives straight from the midst of chaos… boxes everywhere, life in flux, and La Beltane Festival fast approaching. With capacity stretched and no guest in place, this becomes a raw solo transmission... an honest navigation of what it means to keep going when everything feels in motion. And, as ever, the universe answers. The rune that emerges lands with uncanny precision, offe...

There are moments when the path beneath your feet stops being metaphor and becomes instruction. This week’s episode traces the unseen threads that have been quietly, persistently guiding me... from pilgrimage roads to the shores of Sark, and deeper still into the valley we now call home. What once felt like a series of choices is revealing itself as something far more intentional — a conversation...

In this week’s episode I’m chatting with the incredible creatrix that is Chris Park. Chris lives on an organic farm in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire. His work is wide and varied, from arts and craft, ancient technologies, experimental archaeology and educational projects, to eco-building, professional storytelling, folk music and raising the awareness of the heritage of beekeeping. He i...

It might seem counterintuitive, but this moment in time is such an incredible opportunity to be the best version of yourself and to do heroic things. Be the person who hid the family in your attic. Be the person who smuggled people through the checkpoint in the car. Be the person who kept squirrelling food away and who shared your last bit of bread. Be that person. Be the person that people are go...

This week I’m in conversation with Claire Cole, who runs The Centre in Guernsey, where she and her horses hold deeply intuitive shamanic healing sessions. In her work the horses are not simply present... they are active participants in the process, sensing energy, responding to what is unspoken, and helping guide people gently back towards themselves. There is something profoundly moving about wat...

Nonsense in the Chaos is back! It feels so good to be back behind the microphone. I’ve missed you all. This week I discuss how I can feel the old stories cracking. Institutions are wobbling, certainty is dissolving, and the world feels increasingly unreal. The question becomes: how do we live truthfully inside the chaos? I’ll explore power, myth, creativity, spirituality, and the courage to think...

The final episode of Nonsense in the Chaos for Season Two is a pause at the threshold. As Yule tide gathers us inward, this week’s episode explores the numerology of the coming year: a universal ten, the number of the radiant body, the moment in the alchemical process when lead is turned into gold. This is a conversation about community, about scale, and about agency. When the bigger picture feels...

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This week’s podcast weaves together the quiet magic of legacy, continuity and the unseen threads that connect us. In It’s a Wonderful Life , George Bailey never becomes wealthy or achieves the grand future he imagined. Instead, he receives something far greater: perspective. He’s granted the rare gift of witnessing the impact of his existence—the threads tying him to every life he’s touched and th...

#66 Church of Burn; Jonathan Harris and the Ritual of Burning Money Episode #66 dives into the Church of Burn with Jonathan Harris, its Reverend and creator of a movement that treats money not as a master but as a material for ritual transformation. Is it art-magic, a cult, a new form of religion, or something stranger? The Church calls itself a gathering around a sacred act: the literal sacrifice...

What’s the treasure at the heart of your life right now, and what do you feel called to make in the coming year? Three things steadied my nerves this week. First was The Emerald episode ‘Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports’, where Joshua speaks of the old comfort in believing something larger could hold the weight of the world for you. It stirred a deep memory of how light lif...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos we follow the thread from Somerset to Exeter to meet Fiona Williams, author of House of Broken Bricks and partner of Joe, the builder from episode #58. Joe grew up in Burrowbridge with his twin brother Jason, and it was clear from meeting them how deeply the Levels run in their bones. Fiona carries that same connection, and channels it onto the page with remarkab...