We’re Taught to Fear Strangers. What If That’s Holding Us Back? (with Adam Lind)
Finding Your Casual Magic
Communal Living, Rituals, and The Joy of Enough
Accounts from a Portuguese off-grid rainbow gathering, living communally vs. needing solitude (boat life), cultivating rituals, and practicing 'enoughness' to resist perpetual goalpost-moving.
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Today, we are talking about Finding Your Casual Magic through what it means to live a good life!
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I’m here today with Adam Lind - content creator and author extraordinaire of Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary!
Adam lives an alternative lifestyle on a houseboat and has explored sooo many alternative lifestyles along the way. I’m so excited for you to enjoy this episode!
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction (How I found out about today’s guest)
2:08 Friendship with the 1930s Looking Actress (Reacting to Your Casual Magic)
3:42 Meeting people in a new language: Lingoda Sponsor
5:06 Take a Minute? A Meditation for Living Freely
7:35 What Makes Someone Choose an Alternative Lifestyle?
13:48 Adversity: What can we do with it? (Avoid Toxic Positivity)
19:35 Can you hold a grudge AND heal?! The Secret of Forgiveness
21:43 Self-Development Doesn’t Work Without This (Compassion & Gentle Nihilism)
27:20 How Did Adam Start Travelling to India? Playing with the Boundaries of Life
31:30 How to Break Out of Echo-Chambers & Disconnect (What’s Better? Hitchhiking 1000 Times or Just Smiling at Strangers?)
36:40 Our Dysregulated Society: The Impact of Micro-Rejections, Evolving Too Fast & The Real Dangers
41:43 Advice for Travelling: Acknowledging Barriers to Feeling Safe
45:33 The Beauty of those First Steps: Strangers are Friends You Haven’t Met Yet
47:30 How Do You Want to Feel? Chase Feelings, Not Things
48:48 Off-Grid Living: Embracing a Community (While Naked!) Healed Me
54:48 Communal Living vs Traditional Living vs Alternative Living: What works for you?
1:04:00 What If THIS Is It? This HAS to Be Enough: The Joy of Enough
1:08:50 Make the Mundane Sacred: Rituals for the Everyday
1:11:23 Why Are You Travelling to Runaway From Your Life? The Powerful Perception of Freedom
1:14:23 The Reminder of Real Connection (Adam’s Casual Magic)
1:17:22 Outro & Journal Prompt
Find Adam Online! ✨
Instagram: @adam.floatinghome
📚 Pre-order Adam’s wonderful book, Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Floating-Home-Lessons-life-ordinary/dp/1526683520
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/floating-home/adam-lind/9781526683526
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Journal Prompt🖊️
This week, I want to ask you…
- Even when it feels uncomfortable at first, what are the benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone?
- Which areas of your life could benefit from more exploration?
- What are 3 small shifts you can make in your daily routine to create internal freedom?
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