A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.

I really hadn’t gotten how funny the moment was until I said it out loud. And I often take life (and my spiritual practice) waaayyyy too seriously. But I’m aiming to laugh more.

What’s your relationship to humor? To Tricksters? What do you think about the idea that life is both deeply meaningful and also totally ridiculous and a giant joke all at the same time?

(And I meant to say this in the video and forgot - but if you’re involved in a spiritual practice or school where the teacher can’t laugh about things…get out now. It’s probably not a liberatory space)

Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!

If this spoke to you, it helps me immensely if you could take a few moments to help spread the word by liking, sharing (either publicly or with a friend), commenting back, etc <3

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https://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]

For this conversation (the first after a long pause from recording), I’m joined by Stephanie MacKay - a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong - to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. (And someone whose approach to myth has changed my life and work and who I respect and admire greatly - like, I was buzzing after this convo from a combo of the channeling that seems to happen through me in these conversations and my own fan-girling).

Like the myths themselves, this conversation is one of complexity and layers.

Like the myths themselves, there’s an awful lot of wisdom here, stated simply and casually enough that if you aren’t listening for it (or maybe not quite ready for it), you might miss it. You might want to listen more than once.

In it, we wonder about what is lost or being lost in our modern non-culture while holding the truth that all is not lost. We wonder about the richness and messiness of the human experience and also about the Great Oneness - the holiest of Holys - and how to hold both at the same time. We wonder about belonging and how to locate ourselves through ancestral lineages of dislocation.

And through it all - the lives we both have lived, the teachers we have apprenticed to (human and not), and the deep work Stephanie has done with myth - all drop bits of guidance for our human hungers, loneliness, modern cultural poverties, and the tensions we find ourselves feeling stretched and reshaped by.

This conversation is sobering and hopeful. It points unflinchingly at our wounds, at the immensity of the task before us as a species in these times; and also offers some possible direction, some balm.

Join us around the fire? You’re most welcome here.

(If you listen to this episode before January 17, 2026 or Feb 21st, 2026 and something in you sparks with what you hear - I highly recommend joining us for Stephanie’s online myth club:https://stephaniemackay.ca/myth-gatherings. Even if you miss those dates, you can look for others, online or in-person, at the same link.)

As always: liking, commenting, sharing with folks in your circle, following and/or becoming a free (or paid on Substack) subscriber all help the seeds of this conversation spread so hopefully those who are seeking it will find it. My deepest gratitude for whatever ways you help feed this conversation on your end. <3

Find out about Stephanie’s work:

https://stephaniemackay.ca/

You can find Kate:

Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com

Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com

Substack: https://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/

A "Creature Comfort" video to affirm, inspire, give context to, and, yes, comfort your creature self as you unplug from burnout and the life of a machine and remember how to be *alive* again.

An argument could be made that I started recording a bit too soon after waking up - watching back I feel like I can see me wake up part way through. So this is a bit of a slower morning ramble.

But it’s also full of crow sass. And that’s worth something, I think.

So join me for my morning feeding of the birds while I share about:

• why I’ve come to love starting my morning this way;
• collective nervous systems;
• co-regulation with nature versus with machines and digital platforms;
• how cultivating the capacity to both be OK and not be OK at the same time might be key to sustaining ourselves through our species-wide initiation;
• and speaking the language of birds.

Plus, like I said: crow sass.

Any thoughts or impressions in response to this video? You’re welcome to drop ‘em below!

P.S. I’m aiming for two of these “Creature Comfort” videos per week and one longer conversation podcast with a guest per month. Sound good?

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[for more ways to work with me in tending your creature self, particularly after burning out from trying to be a machine:

www.wildsacredjourney.com

https://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/]