By clareartista on Skatehive
Clearing paths this week with @vincentnijman on our land in Molise... was powerful challenging, and the labour brought up a lot around depression – around what needs to be unpacked or expanded or ‘decompressed’. As you can hear in our conversation this week, when Vincent and I recorded our first proper podcast together, Unpacking Depression, the actual release of depression is not complicated. Nor is it impossible: it is part of our everyday and our return to Nature, and we kind of relish the work (the mental and emotional) that is demanded of us, when it comes up... This week was *dreich!! We had a couple of pretty-darn cold days, with also a lot of rain, which helped us to see that the house was EVEN LESS water-proof than we had previously thought! So our minds were overflowing with problems to solve, as it is not as though the leaks are simple holes that can be covered. I felt overwhelm and helplessness this week, more than I've felt in a long time: very early memories came up, whic