hope is our resistance to hell
+ the basis of our new reality
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you know that feeling when the stars are in alignment and the universe is speaking through you and everything just feels so right?
that’s how this week’s episode—024: what the hell / stay golde(n)—felt.
we talk hell and drink some shrooms. the entertainment factor is astronomical (as usual), but the real reason why it’s one of our favorite episodes to date? hope.
if the sheer horror of the current administration has you feeling in the pits of despair and the volatility of the news cycle has your nervous system shot and you feel like you’re drowning with no relief in sight, this one’s for you.
🔮 a glimpse into our stories this week
✨NINS HOLDS ONTO HOPE THROUGH A SHORT STAY IN HELL BY STEVEN L. PECK
i know what it feels like to hold on to hope in times of such deep, deep darkness. it makes me feel crazy. full blown delulu, because i cannot stop listening to this feeling in my gut that things will turn around. it’s hell, that i cannot stop.
but then i reread this book just recently and thought to myself–what if, instead of focusing on the absolute despair of the circumstances, the near impossibility that soren may never find what he’s looking for…what if we changed the narrative. what if, instead of hope feeling like hell, hope is our defiance against hell.
that no matter how bleak it gets, no matter how fruitless soren’s efforts are, he never, ever stops searching–for his book, for his rachel. hope and love. hope and love. not even hell couldn’t take that from him.
✨ARNS REMEMBERS TO CHOOSE JOY WITH TRINITY MOUZON WOFFORD OF SUPERFOOD BRAND GOLDE
it’s easy to be enamored by trinity’s picturesque life in upstate new york, and the way she devotes herself to leaning into community and living slowly in the face of capitalism.
but we have to remember: she didn’t just fall into that life. shaping her reality was, and is, an act of co-creation, a series of choices she makes every single day.
maybe from the outside it looks like supporting local farmers and mornings in the garden and homemade jam. but on the inside, it probably looks like choosing joy and relishing the small moments as they unfold.
we all have the capacity to create our reality to some degree–and that reality begins with the one we create in our minds, the one we build every time we choose to love and hope and dream.
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