It's about when life really matters. About letting curiosity, wonder and awe move us towards a purposeful life characterised by meaning. It's about exploring our deepest belonging. Our belonging to this living, breathing earth, to our inherent spiritual nature, to our bodies and to each other in the web of life...
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It's about when life really matters. About letting curiosity, wonder and awe move us towards a purposeful life characterised by meaning. It's about exploring our deepest belonging. Our belonging to this living, breathing earth, to our inherent spiritual nature, to our bodies and to each other in the web of life...
How powerful trauma while rowing the Pacific Ocean, led to profound healing, connection, trust and love. Sarah Outen
Intimacy with the world
1 hour 24 minutes 58 seconds
4 years ago
How powerful trauma while rowing the Pacific Ocean, led to profound healing, connection, trust and love. Sarah Outen
Wild and soft adventurer Sarah Outen rowed solo across the planets big oceans and cycled across the continents. She tells us what the oceans taught her, and how the ocean is such a good metaphor for life. Those big waves that throw you around and sometimes crush you, but how, if you just let them move through, and trust the process, good weather will come back…
Sarah tells the back story to how she came to row across the Indian ocean, and how the grief over the sudden death of her father was a key factor to her deciding to row solo. And how that first journey lead to a quest to seek out more oceans and continents
We speak about how sometimes you have to just do those things you dream of, if not now, when?
How different needs arise as we continue on lives journey
The differences between being with lots of people , or in complete solitude out on the ocean
The surrendering to the experience -
The ocean as a metaphor for life, the way it is always in movement, knocks you down, picks you up, etc.
How on the ocean you just have to find a way, to survive, even when you are terrified
How to welcome the fear, and keep remembering, that we have to keep going through these processes
How life on the ocean can often be easier, less choices, more simplicity, more clarity
Fearing coming back on land after 4 months alone at sea
The gorgeous word “discombobulating” when describing life…
Waste, materialism and the disconnect to our planet, to where we come from
How when we feel connected to the earth we feel that deep belonging - feeling of coming home
Her difficult journey with PTSD due to being caught for days in a tropical storm on the Pacific
Going to boarding school at 8 years old, that has consequences
How the storms might even bring you a wife
Training to be a therapist
How she has now got 4 Donkeys, and is learning lots of donkey wisdom
We talk about our relationship to rest, to setting boundaries and being clear in our communication
What does settling down mean?
The constrictions of labelling and expectations
Sarah’s ABC of what it takes to row across an ocean: attitude, belief and courage
We talk about the beautiful softness in vulnerability
Trusting the processes and the fluidity of life
Letting go is the chance for letting something new in, for change
How the best stuff comes from life not going to plan
Trust the mess and bless the mess - you will come out the other side and everything changes
Let go of effort, and peace will arrive - Rumi
You have to let go to have a go
Being scared of our own bubbles - our own mind is our biggest challenge
Being with sperm whales and knowing that there is a deep, almost spiritual connection.
The connectedness to the universe that came from being alone in nature for so long
Disconnection and remembering to reconnect again
The importance of nourishing ourselves
The best way of surviving life well, is by preparing the territory with softness, care and nurture
My website: www.duritaholm.com
Intimacy with the world
It's about when life really matters. About letting curiosity, wonder and awe move us towards a purposeful life characterised by meaning. It's about exploring our deepest belonging. Our belonging to this living, breathing earth, to our inherent spiritual nature, to our bodies and to each other in the web of life...
