Podcast: Tankespjärn 2

When Helena Roth and I get together for a chat, we roam some pretty wild and faraway lands between Sweden and Lunenburg County. Every time we do, we find more threads we share: interests, curiosities, and drill sargeant wisdom.

We also laugh a lot. Here’s the second of five conversations for her Tankespjärn podcast—explorations designed to grapple with what doesn’t fit within the framework of our current understanding of reality.

Last time, I wrote that Helena has “…a gentle way of teasing out still-simmering thoughts and granting a license to bring them to the surface.” Pretty sure at this point: she is one of those good witches who casts a spell that entrances you into being brave and share things you didn’t mean to share, but that have been monumentally formative. Because that’s the kind of stuff she likes to play with. So I say more than I meant to. We rant, and we play together.

Watch our most recent chat below, on YouTube, at the Tankespjärn website, or wherever you listen to podcasts. As Helena sums up:

“What else might I not need to be doing? How else can I edit and curate my experience so that I can get closer to the source of what is healthy for a human being?” —Kate Inglis

What can I pare down? What can I remove from my life that makes it richer, healthier, less toxic? How can I empower myself, take the agency that is mine, by birth, by entitlement. Oh how that word is one I have a contentious relationship with. But I am re-shaping my beliefs about it, about entitlement. Choosing to see the positives in it, how it can and should serve… —Helena Roth