Why Connection Matters Most in Crisis

In this reflection episode, Elizabeth steps back from interviews to ask: what’s really staying with me from these conversations?

We explore themes of gender, division, fear, and the deep longing for connection in a time when everything can feel like it’s falling apart - politically, socially and spiritually.

We talk about:

• Why gender is so hard to talk about without blame

• The “polycrisis” and our collective fight-or-flight

• How contempt sneaks in and empathy fades

• Whether old spiritual traditions still have anything to offer

• And what it takes to stay human (and stay open) in a polarised world

  
  

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