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187. 5 Ways to Be More Present: Indigenous Wisdom from Kaitlin Curtice

We Can Do Hard Things

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Resilience and Mother Earth

Sally Kohn: I think of the earth as a mother screaming that she's done. We are telling her again and again that she is beautiful and resilient while we pillage and take from her, says Kohn. It reminds me so much of how mothers across this nation and the world are overwhelmed and overburdened and over taxed,. As a culture, we give them this kind of empty praise. You're not even a human instead of doing the thing that will actually reduce their overwhelm and reduce their burden by treating them better.

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