u/No-Entrepreneur3920 — reddlx

Homesick for a different world

I have always had this loneliness in me and have spent many a therapy sessions trying to uncover it.

At some point it got pathologised as abandonment issues or insecurity, of course, it had to be something wrong with me.

And as I come to understand the world and myself better, I now realise, I was just longing for community and a world where people treated each other well.

I go into this more in my latest essay if anyone fancies some Sunday reading

https://open.substack.com/pub/charlottedelsignore/p/homesick-for-a-different-world?

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u/No-Entrepreneur3920 — 8 days ago

▲ 92 r/TalkingToNHIandSpirit+1 crossposts

Realising we weren’t “broken”after all

The longer this madness goes on the clearer it is that those in society who have been given diagnoses, medicated, put in psychiatric units and who are feeling burnt out and chronically fatigued are actually the ones with the very traits needed for a functioning human world.

Empathy and high perception are a massive inconvenience to this system which is why we’ve been made to feel like we’re broken.

But we are not.

Sharing my article if anyone wants a read

Have a good Sunday!

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u/No-Entrepreneur3920 — 6 hours ago

▲ 177 r/Jung

What an 8 year old knows that an adult has forgotten

Two nights ago I shared a room with my eight-year-old niece. We chatted in the dark before she fell asleep. The kind of conversation that only happens in the last few minutes before a child goes under, when the room goes quiet and the things that matter find their way to the surface.

I asked her what she wanted to be when she was older.

She didn’t hesitate. *An artist*, she said. With the complete certainty of someone who has never once doubted that this was the right answer.

I told her I could imagine that. That it sounded like the right thing for her. That it was an important job.

She thought about this for a moment and then laughed. Not at the question, but at the alternative. I don't want a normal job, she said. I do not want a job where I work 24 hours a day doing something boring. The laugh said the rest: as if anyone would.

I lay in the dark after she fell asleep thinking about what it means that she still knows that. That she said it the way you say something so obvious it barely needs a voice.

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This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote about what gets buried in us between childhood and adulthood and whether it can be found again.

Jung would call it the unlived self and the part that knew, before the world had a chance to tell it otherwise. Individuation, as I understand it, is partly the work of going back for that to recover what was true in it before it went quiet.

Only in my mid-40s am I making this return in earnest. Curious whether this resonates with anyone here who’s found their way back to something they thought they’d lost?

[ full essay here if of interest: https://open.substack.com/pub/charlottedelsignore/p/before-the-world-got-loud? ]

u/No-Entrepreneur3920 — 21 days ago

▲ 79 r/intentionalcommunity+4 crossposts

Feeling little rays of hope for once

I've just left London for a quieter, slower life in a small market town in Devon called Totnes. For anyone on here who doesn't know it it's kind of a big deal in the collapse-aware world. It's where the Transition Towns movement started, which has since spread to over fifty countries. People have been trying to build a genuinely different way of living here for decades.

Three weeks in and the thing that's hit me most is how different people are here. Almost everyone I walk past actually smiles and says hello. Sometimes they stop for a chat. Coming from London that feels almost surreal as London has been feeling increasingly cold and hostile. I've been trying to work out why and I think it comes down to pace, nature, genuine community and the fact that people here are actually building something rather than just talking about it.

The town punches way above its weight for regenerative projects given how small it is. Last week I watched 130 local people offer money, skills and connections to five local businesses trying to build local food security and community wealth. It was genuinely one of the more hopeful things I've seen in a while.

Wrote about the first three weeks if anyone wants something that isn't doom for a change.

https://open.substack.com/pub/charlottedelsignore/p/what-leaving-actually-looks-like?

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u/No-Entrepreneur3920 — 1 month ago