Join adventurer Suzy Muir as she delves into topics like forming spiritual connections with nature, embracing all emotions for resilience, urban gardening for nourishment, and book recommendations for a beautiful life. Discover the wisdom of living off-grid in the Grampians and the profound impact of Deer Medicine on women's safety.
Embrace intense emotions like anger and joy to build resilience.
Connect with nature for spiritual growth and awareness through deer medicine.
Start cultivating food to strengthen resilience and promote self-sufficiency.
Deep dives
Discovering Familiarity in Unseen Movies
Katie recounts receiving DVDs from a friend, housing them unseen on her bookshelf. Months later, she visits the Grampians with Kim and recognizes the hosts from unseen movie covers she owns, leading to a rendezvous with renowned adventurers Susie and John Muir.
Deepening Relationship with Nature
Susie narrates the profound connection to her land, Inana, expressing a learning journey in indigenous land relationship. Reflecting on shared ancestry as Stone Age hunter-gatherers, she delves into tethering to a specific landscape and the spiritual depth that accompanies it.
Embracing Emotional Complexity for Resilience
Susie explores resilience through embracing intense emotions like anger, grief, joy, and compassion. She values allowing these emotions to flow freely, supporting her body through various emotional states, finding solace in nature to reset and release these intense feelings.
Nurturing Resilience Through Personal Connection with Food
Suggesting that cultivating a tomato plant on a windowsill is a potent entry point to resilience, Susie emphasizes the significance of connecting with growing food. This process fosters a sense of security, starting with nourishing oneself directly from the produce grown, promoting a fundamental aspect of human resilience.
Encouraging Immersive Nature Experiences for Inner Calm
Susie underscores the importance of quieting oneself in nature, syncing with the surroundings to embody calmness and alertness. Advocating for being in tune with wild spaces, she shares insights on following deer medicine, emphasizing the value of awareness in fostering spiritual connections with the environment.
Can rocks be your besties? Are the shadows safer? How does Deer Medicine help women avoid becoming prey?
Get into this conversation with adventurer, wilderness guide and creature of place Suzy Muir – who, alongside her intrepid husband Jon Muir – live a radically simple off grid existence in the Grampians.
I was lucky enough to meet Suzy in her natural habitat, purely by chance, and have considered her a friend and mentor ever since. Her stories and wisdom and wildness may just have the same effect on you; something to hear with your bones as well as your ears, singing to ancient and latent parts of the soul. Enjoy this whole conversation.