Episode 28: About bodies

“You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made of star dust. What do you have to be afraid of?” Mer and I explore the idea of bodies in this episode, through the lens of health, appearance and our relationship between those things.

More about Mer: https://www.mermonson.com/

Episode Notes:

  • How much we think about our body and how little we need to 

  • Do bodies need managing and solutions? 

  • Is our body in our way?

  • What if bodies are REALLY not separate from the intelligence of life?

  • Pinning our body up against the wall

  • Presence and listening with our body, without agenda

  • Riding the possibility of Alzheimers or cancer down the road…

  • The rabbit hole of thinking about our appearance

  • Rethinking the positive body movement

  • What if exercise is play?

  • What if our body isn’t us and isn’t ours?

  • “You are a ghost driving a meat-covered skeleton made of stardust. What do you have to be afraid of?” -Anonymous

  • “Out beyond all ideas of wrongdoing and righting there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”  -Rumi