The Numinous Podcast

The Numinous Podcast is a show about intuition, spirituality and the mystery of life. The host, Carmen Spagnola, is an intersectional witch and clinical hypnotherapist who has smart, soulful conversations with interesting people. The lineup is diverse, the topics are eclectic, and the people are down-to-earth (mostly).

Episodes

Aug 8, 2026

2 min

On August 7, our home was completely ravaged by wildfire. Our dear friend, Alysha, set up a Go Fund Me 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-support-for-carmen-and-family

Jul 29, 2026

1hr 13 min

Grab a hanky because I am living close to the waterworks lately, folks! 😭 I was not able to keep it together through this interview and that tracks completely because I don’t actually believe in trying to suppress emotions and I don’t mind crying in the middle of an interview at all. Especially because it’s not everyday you know your guest is going to hold you in such deep care and dignity. My guest today is the warm and wonderful, Erinn Doncaster, here today to share about their new venture, a project called "Find Your Song". 
 
Erinn's combined background in music education and event production, as well as AOP Social Work, trauma counselling, Somatic Experiencing, and group therapy has culminated in this project that weaves together the threads of their rich experience. Erinn is a non-binary, queer, newly disabled, white settler with way-back roots in the Scottish Hebrides via eight generations in Nova Scotia.
 
Find Your Song is a series of musical collaborations and explorations including the upcoming Songwriting to Meet the Moment retreat, happening November 19-22 in Nanaimo, BC, on gorgeous Vancouver Island. Registration closes on August 22, so I’m glad we managed to align schedules so you all can hear why Erinn’s work is so much more than it seems! Just listen, you’ll understand what I mean.
Find Your Song:
findyoursong.co
facebook.com/findyoursong.co
instagram.com/findyoursong.co
Songwriting to Meet the Moment registration: findyoursong.co/post/songwriting
 
Karla Mundy & SongRoots: 
songroots.ca
 
Sarina Partridge: 
sarinapartridge.com
https://sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-re-root-and-remember-album
https://www.patreon.com/sarinapartridge
Sarina's interview with Anderson Cooper about Singing Resistance: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BmrPcjfwA/ 
 
Singing Resistance: 
instagram.com/singingresistance
 
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The threads we're weaving between this podcast and the Stoner Story Witch Podcast:
"Mona is an Ancestor Now", The Numinous Podcast
"Music as Oracular Bridge with Colette Baron-Reid", The Numinous Podcast
"Memos with Friends: Taming the Werewolf Within with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast
"Tending Ourselves and Each Other with Spaciousness & Creativity with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast
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Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition, (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)
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Join us in The Numinous Network for 12 Days of Trancework starting August 3
Remember, I'm teaching my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate again this fall! (Likely the past time for a few years.)
 
Thanks for listening!💖

Jul 24, 2026

1hr 4 min

Mara Glatzel is an intuitive coach, teacher, podcast host + the author of Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs + Reclaim Your Sovereignty and she's inviting you to a slumber party for burnt out baddies (eldest daughters/sisters/girls).
Take Mara's Needs Quiz! (Fun and informative!)
Mara teaches eldest sisters, people pleasers, and chronic overfunctioners (her absolute favourite people) how to take up SPACE, deeply tend to their needs, and cultivate unshakable self-trust. Through her online programs, workshops, and retreats, Mara supports folks yearning to reconnect with their humanity and create ambitious lives filled with meaning, without abandoning themselves in the process. 
Check out her website and get on her mailing list to learn all about her summer retreat.
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Pre-order my forthcoming book, How to Connect
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Jul 17, 2026

1hr 7 min

(Content note: Adult language; also brief, non-specific mention of sexual assault.)
🎉It's Colette Baron-Reid Day*!🎉 Sixty eight years ago, she began a life journey that has seen her rise to the height of publishing success as a bestselling author and oracle deck creator. Today, she is coming full circle in more ways than one: it's her solar return, it's her new album's debut, and it's a puzzle piece slotting into place that had been missing for decades.
In this conversation, we get to hear why Colette left the music industry 22 years ago and what has changed so that now, at 68 years old, she's no longer "too old for the industry".
Listen to the new album, My Dark Church, on Bandcamp.
*Observances for 🎂Colette Baron-Reid Day🎂 include: Pull an oracle card, tap into your own intuitive interpretation; make some art, bonus points for intention-setting as you do it; cuddle a cute Pomeranian while you introduce your friends to each other and build networks of solidarity and support to raise up your community and industry; sing if you feel like it, swear if you want to; embrace change, like, actively; take a creative risk and keep looking forward, "raise your eyes up". ✨
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Pre-order my forthcoming book today, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype) <– Thank you so, so much for your support with this one! 🙏🏻💖
 
Join us for 12 Days of Trancework in The Numinous Network (9am PT/12pm ET, Aug 3 - 15, 2026, 30 min sessions, camera on or off, recordings available immediately afterward with no time limit to re-play)

Jul 10, 2026

1hr 3 min

WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE. WE WILL NOT STOP ADVOCATING FOR UPDATED INFORMATION, GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, AND A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF FIRST LINE TREATMENT TO CURRENT MOST PROMISING PRACTICES IN MENOPAUSAL SUPPORT. 
Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them/Mx.) is an author, educator, and certified menopause doula and coach specializing in gender-affirming menopause care. As Founder and CEO of Genderqueer Futures LLC, they train healthcare providers, therapists, coaches, and allied professionals to deliver inclusive, trauma-informed menopause care for people of all genders.
Lasara is the author of Genderqueer Menopause (North Atlantic Books, 2026) and the forthcoming Magickal Menopause (Llewellyn, 2027), and host of The Genderqueer Menopause Coach podcast. They present nationally at conferences, including the UCSF Transgender Health Summit, GLMA, and NPWH.
Lasara's next Gender-Affirming Menopause Care Certification Course, an 8-week IAOTH-accredited live cohort for providers, begins November 3, 2026.
Links:
Everything Lasara: https://linktr.ee/lasarafirefoxallenGAMC Certification Course (Nov 2026 cohort): https://bit.ly/GAMCFall2026
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Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)
 
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Jul 3, 2026

49 min

Content Warning: pet death. Also, Dispatch episodes feature the background noise of me doing chores around the farm which may cause aggravation for folks with sensory processing sensitivities. Please look for a transcription within your podcast player.
Madonna (Mona) Spagnderson (2013 - 2026)
This is the story of how Mona was promised to me in return for not leaving my husband.
This is the story of Mona's trauma recovery.
This is the story of how our dog required us to become better people, more healed people.
This is the story of how Mona told us she was ready to go.
This is the story of how we grieve.
This is the story of the fundamental role of ritual in our lives and how we do it when the time has come.
This is the story of how to do it when my time has come.
This is the story of our good girl, Mona, who became an ancestor on June 30, 2026.
Click here to see Mona's In Memoriam video on Instagram
Click here for my sad songs playlist on Tidal

Jun 25, 2026

48 min

Let's go on a farm tour and talk business! Today I am choring, checking the horses' water, the kunekune pigs' water, and saying hi to the chickens, then on to the fields to harvest wheat and barley to dry for wheat weaving kits this fall.
I'm sharing quite transparently about my income, my debt, my marketing and my foundational business philosophies.
I do want to note:
- As with all dispatch episodes, the background noises may not work for everyone. The pig grunts may get tiresome and the chickens may cause a startle response. Please search your podcast player for a transcription!
- I say several times in this episode "you have to do events", but I want you to hold that term, "events", very lightly. I don't mean you HAVE to host workshops. But, I mean, at least a 45 minute lunch-and-learn/webinar or SOMETHING, know what I mean? You have to make yourself available to the public if you want the public to fund your life. That's what I'm trying to say. It doesn't HAVE to be hosting events, that's just one example. It could also be your incredibly helpful or entertaining Substack, or your edutainment podcast or whatever. You just gotta MAKE is what I'm trying to say...you gotta DO stuff, otherwise all you have left to talk about is yourself and your boring credentials LOL 😂
In this episode I reference:
My NuMethod Facilitation Training – now taking applications for the fall cohorts
The 1000 True Fans Theory 
Dunbar's Number
Several times I mention a resource available with membership in The Numinous Network
(For example, "Teach Well: Course Design for Healers Who Want to Teach", our Small Business Chat sessions, Peer Supervision, etc.)
I mention how I built my business on 8-10 newsletters a year (for years) and how I maintained a high engagement/open rate. (You don't open 80% of the time in a year? No worries - I've unsubscribed you!)* Sign up for my newsletter here!
*I actually haven't stayed on top of this since 2022 but I may resume soon! I love a good purge of my list!
**I didn't mention this, but I also have registration now open for my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate, a microcredential to boost your confidence and provide support for your therapeutic work.
***I also didn't mention that I have another book coming out soon! How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype). Your pre-order means so much! Without it, I can't do the size of print run that will properly stock stores ahead of the holiday gift season - please pre-order and thank you in advance!
 

Jun 17, 2026

20 min

Storytime! This one is about how I won a trip to Greece through Contact Nutrition. I was a wine rep trying to sell relatively expensive bottom shelf wine to Greek restaurants that did not want this wine. Here's what made the difference.
Join us for a mellow summer of Contact Nutrition in The Numinous Network!
Thanks in advance for pre-ordering my next book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)

Jun 10, 2026

12 min

A little more "Common Sense for Collapse Times" for you today with something I learned after my business was washed away in the Great Recession of 2008 and I experienced bankruptcy and some deep, deep shame.
I'm talking about navigating capitalism and managing terror and desperation - somehow in 12 minutes I manage to make myself both laugh and cry, while also feeding the horses and sharing, like, 3 different stories and multiple partial tangential thoughts with you. It's an authentic hang-out session. 😅
Come hang out with us in The Numinous Network for some gentle care and deep connection, as well  as some entrepreneurial support!
 

Jun 8, 2026

1hr 1 min

I'm so honoured to welcome back to the podcast, one of my favourite conversations partners ever, Perdita Finn!
Perdita is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
She is on Facebook and Instagram and writes a popular Substack, Take Back the Magic. Her website is takebackthemagic.com
Buy Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of our Ancestors from your favourite bookseller now!
Referenced in this episode:
Bitch: On the Female of the Species, by Lucy Cooke

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Jun 7, 2026

22 min

10 Rules to Live By (for Collapse or Any Other Time)
This episode features the best bangers of cowboy logic, farm wisdom, and collapse tips that are getting us through some tough months here on Faulder Farm on Syilx Territory.
Pre-order my book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)
🙏🏻 Thanks in advance! 🙏🏻
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May 27, 2026

52 min

Today's guest, Nadine Nakagawa, is an organizer, activist, intersectional feminist, clinical counsellor, and two-term city councillor. She is also the co-founder of Feminist Campaign School which supports underrepresented people to run for and serve in elected office. 
She is also the author of the forthcoming book, Moss, Molt, Murmur: Contemplations on Nature, which is now available for pre-order from 9th House Press!
This conversation was recorded over a month ago and we were still using the working title "Imaginal Discs” which is just one of the essays in this little book. I say “essays” but they’re not exactly essays…
It’s more like a compendium of prose poems and musings and tiny immersions into an animist, anticapitalist, interconnected world.
I know this book will resonate with activists, environmentalists, animists, artists, pagans, witches, people developing secure attachment with beings and places of the natural world.
It’s a book for people trying to find their way out of the narrative of a white capitalist imperialist patriarchal overculture. It's for those people who are looking for the exit by entering into communion with the natural world.
And when you hear more from Nadine today, I think you’ll see why I think this book is going to be wildly popular when it arrives.
 
Referenced in this episode:
Kai Cheng Thom
Indiginews 
Eden Fineday
 
Follow Nadine on Instagram
 
Pre-order now from 9th House Press
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May 22, 2026

45 min

If you are in the mood for something soothing, cozy, wholesome, and heartwarming, this episode is for you. If you are craving some quality time with a neighbour who is grounded, good-hearted, generous and genuinely curious about you and life in general, this episode is for you. If you need a comfort listen, this episode is for you.
And so is the forthcoming book from today's guest, Marianne Unger. It's called Farm Stand News: Letters to the Neighbourhood and it's now available for pre-order from 9th House Press.
It's about neighbourliness, baking, gardening, place-making, heritage and chosen family, the gift economy, and turning capitalist colonialism on its head. And most of all, it's about love. 
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May 15, 2026

1hr

Author and educator, Dionne Grayman, is here to talk about her new book, I Call My Own Name: A Homegirl's Lyrical Memoir of Hip-Hop, Healing and Holy Reclamation, now available for pre-order from 9th House Press.
In the 90s, Dionne was just 20 years old and pregnant when her baby's father was killed. Now in her late 50s, Dionne recounts how literature and music helped her "remember herself whole", her whole story, with herself as lead not victim. With a warm voice and engaging storytelling, Dionne rewrites the story of how this MC saved her own life.
Pre-order I Call My Own Name from 9th House Press
Best Savings: the Power Reader Bundle
More show notes with links to all of Dionne's references and recommendations coming soon!
Check out my next book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)
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May 9, 2026

57 min

New from 9th House Press: Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis, by Dr.Allison Claire Davis, explores the question, What happens when a woman becomes a mother during the slow emergency of our ecological crisis?
Matrescence is the developmental transition of becoming a mother. As far as I can find, this is the first book published that focuses exclusively on the unique psychoemotional context of becoming a mother during a time of climate crisis.
Dr.Allie Davis is a licensed therapist, researcher, and educator who coined the term maternal ecodistress. Her research has been published in journals including Ecopsychology and Women’s Studies International. She teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute, directs the Maternal Ecopsychology Certification program for clinicians and birth workers, serves as associate editor of the Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change, and runs Southwest Perinatal Counseling.
Mother Juniper draws on the juniper’s pioneer species carework as a developmental framework for supporting the Earth-Self that awakens in matrescence. It is grounded in attachment theory, ecopsychology, feminist theory, and depth psychology. Throughout the book, Davis holds Indigenous ways of knowing and Western science in relationship with each other and reframes maternal climate distress as accurate perception rather than pathology.
Along with a developmental framework for moving through ecological crisis, Mother Juniper supports mothers in building earned secure attachment to Earth during matrescence. Therapists and healthcare providers will also benefit from this book as gives clinicians language and a framework for the ecological dimensions of maternal care.
⭐️ Buy the book ⭐️
www.dralliedavis.com
Follow Allie on Instagram
TikTok
 
Learn more about 9th House Press
 
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May 8, 2026

1hr 28 min

Production Note: I used a different recording program than usual without any background noise dampening so you get to hear the summer storm roll in, my dog, Mona slurping her water, my movements as I shuffle stuff on my desk, etc...So real! So high def! So intimate and interactive!
Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide and brief non-specific mention of sexual assault, overall a bummer of a topic but I try to keep it moving along fairly briskly and we end with some good coping strategies.
On this Mother's Day weekend, I'm taking about some grief-y things and some tough things, and also some funny things and some empowering things. If you're a caregiver nearing the end of her rope, this is for you.
 
International Crisis Lines
Quality of Life assessment: https://qli.uic.edu/
Professional Quality of Life Scale (Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vzvQVeakBzCbjDCaypwZ_dEy3vHs-37K/view?usp=drive_link
 
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide
 
https://sprc.org/about-suicide/suicide-data/suicide-by-age/
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3603326/
 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2791161
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7292717/
 
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/12/e032391.full.pdf
 
https://www.explorationpub.com/Journals/ei/Article/1003241
 
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May 7, 2026

1hr 4 min

If you've enjoyed discourse on this podcast about the barefoot doctor approach, community-based and culturally-relevant mental health initiatives and disability justice, as well as how ritual and spiritual literacy helps weave a stronger collective nervous system and increases community resilience, then you need to read, The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution by Dr.Dixon Chibanda. It's about a mental health program of elder lay counsellors who deliver mental health support from neighbourhood park benches, and the 100+ published studies on its efficacy in measurable improvements to individual patients and public health.
Dr.Dixon Chibanda is a medical doctor, a practicing psychiatrist, and a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also director of the African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI). His TEDx Talk about the Friendship Bench has over 3 million views.
 
Referenced in this episode
The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution
FriendshipBench.org
Friendship Bench-in-a-Box
Dixon's socials and podcasts:
Instagram  and FriendshipBenchGlobal InstaFacebookTwitter  YouTube/Podcast  TikTok  LinkedIn
 
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May 5, 2026

1hr 30 min

Welcome to your new hyper-niche comfort listen, my fellow disability nerds! Today we're talking with Dr.Diana Driscoll about some of the recent research on Inflammatory POTS as well as promising treatment approaches.
Diana Driscoll, OD, FAAO received her Doctoral degree from The University of Houston College of Optometry, and began studying idiopathic autonomic dysfunction through the ophthalmic examination of affected patients. Her work extended into abnormal vagus nerve function, vascular endothelial health, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, premature aging associated with connective tissue disorders, the genetic traits involved, and the reversal of symptoms.
She has published in The Journal of Vitreoretinal Disease and is a peer-reviewer for retinal journals. Dr. Driscoll created Genetic Disease Investigators, LLC in 2011 to conduct formalized research into autonomic dysfunction. She is the recipient of five patents to date concerning the enigmatic autonomic nervous system, including dry eye disease. She is the author of The Driscoll Theory which details the role of intracranial pressure, vagus nerve function, fibrosis, and inflammation in connective tissue patients.
She also authored Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Your Eyes and EDS – the only publication of its type.
Dr. Driscoll is the Clinical Director of POTS Care, the owner of TJ Nutrition, and the President of Genetic Disease Investigators.
Referenced in this Episode:
Download The Driscoll Theory: The cause of POTS in Ehlers-Danlos and how to reverse the process
Learn more about Dr.Driscoll's work and offerings:
POTS Rebels on PatreonPOTS Care ClinicMore on Inflammatory POTSVagus nerve support supplementwww.drdianadriscoll.com
Related Past Episodes of The Numinous Podcast:
TNP169 Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies
TNP205 Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene + Miracles
TNP210 RCCX Theory of Complex Illness with Carmen Spagnola
TNP215 Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin
TNP267 The Body Is A Doorway with Sophie Strand
 
Past episodes featuring Numinous Network Members and Guides who live with disability, chronic/temporary/dynamic or episodic disability:
TNP281 23 Dates with My Dead Dad with Corey MacAuliffe
TNP275 Community Building in Tough Times with Asteria Elzea
TNP270 Art, Pleasure and Consent with Marisa Sullivan
 
Join us in The Numinous Network – sliding scale rate of $50, $75 or $100USD per month for 50+ live support calls, including weekly sessions for people with Sensitive Systems & Long Covid. (Camera optional, verbal or non-verbal participation a-ok, no forced sharing, slow pacing and lots of mini breaks to reset, calibrate, and discern the goldilocks amount of connection in the moment).
Notes
Apologies: I misspoke in the intro of this episode and said "RCCX syndrome" which is definitely not a thing. I meant "RCCX Theory", the work of Dr.Sharon Meglathery.
I also misspoke in the outro when I said that pre-orders are now available for my book, How to Connect: Build Deep Connection and a Strong Bond Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype) – PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE MAY 8! ✨🎉 Sign up for my newsletter for the announcement.

Apr 21, 2026

38 min

Today's episode is part announcement, part request, part inspiration, part call to action – I am delighted to welcome back my dear friend and colleague, Taraneh Erfan, in her role as Editorial Director for 9th House Press. Regular listeners will know that 9th House Press is a worker co-op founded by Taraneh, myself and our colleague, Thérèse Cator, and we are bringing you world-building books that are a response to the question, How then shall we live?
We are pleased to officially announce that our debut catalogue arrives May 8, 2026!
Check out our Submissions Guidelines and send us your work to be considered for our upcoming anthology of poetry and prose by marginalized and equity-denied voices, Assembly: Liberatory Words for Revolutionary Times. On November 4, 2026, our title will be on bookstore shelves, and your words could be within the pages!
Sign up for accessible group or self-paced expressive arts therapy with Taraneh Erfan
Become an Associate Member of the 9th House Press Co-operative today! (Entries prior to 5pm PDT on May 8, 2026 are automatically entered into our Grand Prize Giveaway.)
Get a 30-day free trial of The Numinous Network when you use promo code FREE30 before April 30, 2026.

Mar 25, 2026

1hr 14 min

This episode features my very special guest, Alysha! She's here for her third work-stay on the land, learning construction skills as she helps my husband, Ruben, build a livestock shelter. Alysha has been an amazing role model, resource, and thought partner for me around anti-colonialism for many years. Once again, here she is, advancing my thinking on the subject. Come grapple with us as we do morning horse chores!
I know that as a settler, a Land Acknowledgement isn't for me.
But as a participant in settler colonialism, it is about me in a way, and it does impact me in that it has been and continues to be  a learning process.
I hope that, since we're trying to have a holistic, nuanced, and relational conversation about Land Acknowledgements, I'll be forgiven for saying that I believe having moral ambition benefits me by improving my self-esteem. I believe awkward participation in Land Acknowledgements is a pro-social, collective good. I don't know where the line is where it becomes a social detriment or we become numb to it, but I do think it's important they are not limited to formal events and those involving people who move the levers of institutional power.
Again, this process is of course not about making me, as a settler, feel good. But it does make me feel a lot of things, and not all of them are bad.
UPDATE March 26, 2026: I'm realizing that I threw the term "moral ambition" out into the conversation via the show notes and it perhaps lands a bit out of context. I recently published an episode, TNP306 {Dispatch: Jan 30, 2026} Lively v. Baldoni, Avoidant Attachment, and Moral Ambition, in which I grapple with, and ultimately endorse, that concept. The way I feel it relates here is that I tend to think that the way we ought to address numbness to the challenges of life is not to curtail our engagement but rather to become more present, to cultivate more maturity (emotional and spiritual), to stick with the trouble. There is a risk we fail, but it's honourable to try.
And that's all I have to say about that. 😅
Note: Dispatch episodes are recorded en plein air with all the sounds of farm life and chores in the background, (and sometimes a bit loud). We tried not to sniff too much but it was a cold morning, and sometimes the feed bags make a big tarp-in-the-wind-like sound. If auditory sensitivity is part of your experience, please consult your podcast player for a transcript.
With gratitude for the article of note to the writer, Khelsilem: Understanding the Purpose, Limits, and Misuse of "Land Acknowledgements": On symbolism, substance, and the limits of public ritual

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