Is this you?

You and I both want to know if you are in the right place – and this is where we're going to find out. Here are 9 ways to know if you are the kind of person who might enjoy my work. 

5 Things about you, your family, and sustainable living...

1. You go out of your way to feed your family real, nourishing food, grown as close to home as possible. You know that as well as it's relevance to our own health, what we eat influences how the World is used and cared for.
2. You care, deeply, about Gaia, our Earth, our home. You want your children and grandchildren to inherit a world of healthy soil and clean air; teeming oceans, bustling grasslands and forests, wild tigers; and intact communities where the pace is slow and people speak their mother tongues and laugh a lot. 
3. You want to raise children who can think for themselves; you understand that personal sovereignty is a key to being able to treat others with compassion (as opposed to feeling the need to defend, attack, or exploit).
4. You want to reclaim basic health care from Big Pharma.
   (You're grateful to be able to call on modern medicine when it's really needed, but you don't believe we need high tech diagnosis and treatments for everything. You might also believe or be starting to suspect that high tech medicine is sometimes counter productive in terms of true health.)
   
5. You want to care for yourself, your family, and your home without using wasteful, toxic products. (You understand that more ingredients and more packaging does not make for better hygiene.)

4 Things about you personally...

1. Strong relationships, a sense of purpose and self-reliance, and a connection to nature are important to you.
2. You want to live a life designed by you, based on real values, not a life that's prescribed for you by the quick-fix culture that surrounds us. You know in your bones that something is deeply wrong with the consumption-driven, industrialized, digitized narrative we see all around us.
3. You're into some degree of self-reflection, possibly a large degree. You understand that change begins within and you want support to "live the changes."
4. Sometimes (maybe often) you feel  overwhelmed, anxious, lonely/disconnected, angry/outraged, afraid, distraught, even grief stricken. You might have moments where you're desperate for support, for someone to understand how you feel.
   (I do. And I'm here to tell you that there's nothing wrong with you. Quite the opposite. These are natural, healthy responses to the social and ecological crises we're facing.)

On the other hand if that description was close to the mark then you and I might have a lot to talk about.