Welcome to the most passive-aggressive mediation session ever recorded. In this episode, our host is told something “isn’t a big deal”—which, of course, is how every nuclear meltdown begins. What follows is a winding takedown of corporate gaslighting, middle management pageantry, genderless performance reviews, and the exquisite humiliation of being talked around while someone stares at the floor and someone else metaphorically turns into a tropical fruit salad.

Featuring:

• The debut of Banana Vanilla Pistachio Middle Manager™

• A masterclass in implied blame

• The mysterious, recurring issue with “the thing” no one will define

• 34 mentions of “not a big deal” (each more suspicious than the last)

• And an email in Drafts, weaponized and waiting to be sent

This episode is for anyone who’s ever had their sanity casually undermined by someone who smiles reflexively and says “we’re just trying to move forward” while quietly rearranging the knives on the table.

Let’s all agree: the next time someone says it’s not a big deal… we call HR first.

In this deeply unstable episode, your host accidentally sits down to write a short intro about Alcoholics Anonymous and ends up staging a full-blown confessional fever dream featuring AIDS trauma porn, Access Hollywood, Ronald Reagan, sex clubs, and a suspiciously athletic somersault. Yes, that happens. There’s also a half-nude dog costume, a Broadway playwright with boundary issues, and enough name-drops to power a VH1 Behind the Breakdown special.

This episode asks the important questions: What is consent when your acronym is HALT? Should gravity be your higher power? And is Trump just an off-brand Ionesco character with worse hair and better ratings?

If you came here for clarity, serenity, or a working moral compass—good luck. But if you like your social commentary laced with gallows humor, cultural whiplash, and the kind of honesty that makes people stop texting you back… pull up a stained carpet square and enjoy the show.

This episode comes after Radius of Comfort, and it knows that.

If Radius of Comfort explored intensity through calm, scale, and distance, Flowering Fauna moves the lens closer—to the body, to texture, to sensation that isn’t abstracted or smoothed out.

This isn’t a release of pressure.

It’s a redistribution of it.

The experiment continues, but the terrain changes: from orientation to contact, from atmosphere to anatomy, from spaciousness to friction. If the previous episode asked where your comfort extends, this one asks what happens when you stay with what’s already there.

Nothing here is meant to shock.

Nothing here is meant to soothe.

Just notice what blooms when attention lingers.