Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke Healing our trauma culture with Manda Scott | Living Mirrors #150
Aug 4, 2025
Manda Scott, a bestselling author and former veterinary surgeon known for her Boudica: Dreaming series, shares her insights on healing our trauma culture. She discusses the concept of thrutopian fiction as a call to action for systemic change. Scott emphasizes the importance of reconnecting through community support and facing life's cycles, particularly death. She critiques the trauma culture that stems from consumerism and advocates for emotional literacy and compassionate storytelling to inspire collective healing and transformation.
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Understanding the Metacrisis Complexity
- The current metacrisis is a complex system with many interconnected problems that demand systemic change.
- Addressing single issues like net zero alone misses the broader, unpredictable challenges we face.
Initiation vs. Trauma Cultures
- Initiation cultures expose individuals to contained experiences with death and help them embrace their connection to life and community.
- Our trauma culture, resulting from lost connection, stacks unresolved trauma, leading to mental health crises and disrespect in society.
Power of Thrutopian Fiction
- Fiction shapes real futures; imagining dystopias without solutions only deepens fear.
- Thrutopian fiction offers actionable, step-by-step visions for better futures that inspire change and hope.
