This week we're hanging with wandering Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and Earth & Soul Director Cami Twilling to talk about what it means to connect to the sacred when you're living outside the bounds of formal religious tradition.

John Philip is an ordained-minister-turned-spiritual-exile who spent years with one foot in the church and one foot out in the wilderness, before finally giving back his ordination. He couldn’t reconcile his experience of the sacredness of humans and nature with Christianity’s history of getting “into bed with empire.”

His book The Great Search asks: What are millions of spiritual seekers actually searching for? And how can we nurture those yearnings?

John Philip talks about philosopher Simone Weil's idea of 'the efficacy of desire': that getting in touch with our deepest longings actually helps bring about what we're yearning for. When we name our hungers with clarity, we become better able to serve them.

We talk about:

* Why the wilderness and the temple need each other

* The 8 yearnings at the heart of spiritual searching

* What happens when you "pray until the tears come" and tap into primal flow

* Why regular retreat matters more than occasional long stints

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The Adventure:

This one’s subtle and luminous. Cami and John Philip drop us into a contemplative space where the main practice is reconnecting with the light that exists at the heart of all things. We watch how the light moves, and in this simplicity, let our awareness touch eternity.

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Let us know in the comments: what does your “great search” look like right now?

Till next time!

🧘🏽‍♀️ Tasha & Jeff 🧘🏼‍♂️

Happy New Year!

One week into 2026 and we’re already firing on all cylinders. So let’s kick it off with some destress tools to keep us all cool as cucumbers when things get spicy. 🥒😅🌶️

This week we sit down with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, physician, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and author of The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience. We talk about what stress actually is, why it gets so dismissed in medicine, and what to do when your diamond finally cracks.

Dr. Aditi knows stress from both sides. As a medical resident working 80-hour weeks in the cardiac ICU, she was taught that "pressure makes diamonds." Then she experienced a stampede of wild horses across her chest that turned out to be... stress! Not a heart attack or low blood sugar. It was her nervous system completely losing it.

When her doctor said "just relax," she realized there was a massive gap between how common stress is (60-80% of doctor visits) and how little support exists for it (only 3% of doctors counsel for stress). So she became the doctor she needed.

We talk about:

* Why calling it “just” stress is medical gaslighting

* How doomscrolling is the modern way to scan for danger

* The “popcorn brain” effect of having too much screen time

* Why breathing is one of the few things you can control (and how to use it)

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The adventure:

Dr. Aditi walks us through three of her Five Resets, including “Stop, Breathe, Be”, a simple practice she did 30-40 times a day as a resident.

It’s a pause and reset you can use every time you turn a doorknob, before Zoom calls, picking up your kids, or brushing your teeth. Any moment works.

Know someone who would appreciate a few new destress tools in their kit? Pass it on!

Let us know how these practices work for you!

Till next time,

🧘🏽‍♀️ Tasha & Jeff 🧘🏼‍♂️

This week we’re hanging with our friend Chela Davison — facilitator, sacred mischief maker, former master coach, and writer of the Substack, Wisdotainment.

She brings her trademark mix of depth and irreverence to the question of what it means to live a “regenerative calling”, a purposeful life that actually feeds you instead of wringing you dry.

Chela walks us through 4 dimensions of personal calling:

1. Interiority – the pulse of what’s meaningful inside you.

2. Aptitude – the weird mix of things you’re naturally good at and the skills you might still need.

3. Contribution – how your doing lands in the world and loops back as feedback.

4. Regeneration – how you stay resourced, supported, and non-crispy while doing all that.

It’s a conversation about vocation, yes, but also about capacity, cycles, and what it means to build a life that keeps you sparkly and invigorated.

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We talk about:

* Why “purpose” culture leaves so many of us exhausted

* How to work with your capacities instead of against them

* The difference between extraction and regeneration

* How to know when your calling needs composting

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We make this show with love, lols, and a lot of curiosity. If it lights you up, help us keep it going with a paid subscription 🌿

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The Adventure:

Chela invites us to feel into our own calling through these four lenses: what’s pulsing with meaning, what capacities are growing, where your gifts want to land, and what actually keeps you resourced. A full-body check-in with your life!

Know someone rethinking their “calling”? Pass this episode along 💫

Till next time,

🧘🏽‍♀️ Tasha & Jeff 🧘🏼‍♂️