What if you are not lost at all, and the world that birthed you has been waiting for you to stand still long enough to be found?
In this conversation with Tei Taiyarï, counsellor, ecotherapist, death doula, and edge walker, we wander into territory that is rarely spoken about with this kind of honesty. Tei opens with a poem by David Wagoner that stops you in your tracks, and from there we move through grief, colonialism, cultural orphanhood, and the empty places within us that can only be filled by relationship with wildness. Tei speaks to the biophilic thread running through all of us, the innate love of life that modernity has not so much destroyed as buried under noise, convenience, and the relentless forward motion of a world at war with depth.
Our conversation moves into what it means to descend rather than ascend, to grow roots before reaching for the sky, and why so much of modern spirituality is missing the assignment by looking up when the medicine has always been below. We talk about grief as an ocean we were never meant to enter alone, the raggy tapestry of cultural fragments we are all trying to piece together, and the growing intolerance for our own lack of integrity when we know deep down what we actually value. Tei does not offer easy answers, but he does offer something rarer and more useful, a willingness to feel it honestly and ask who wants to do it together.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
Guest Name: Tei Taiyarï https://bio.site/tei.taiyari
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