In this episode, our host, Hawah Kasat, sits down with Nivi Jaswal-Wirtjes, co-founder and President of the Virsa Foundation. Join them as they discuss the emotional landscape following the recent U.S. presidential election and offer insights on navigating both personal and planetary burnout. This important conversation explores the consequences of our hyper-polarized world and how ultra-processed marketing can shadow our ability to be free and independent thinkers.
How are you managing physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout? Each day brings more stress, political upheaval, social change, and environmental crises. How can we stay engaged in the world without becoming jaded or overwhelmed?
In this episode, our host, Hawah Kasat, sits down with Nivi Jaswal-Wirtjes, the co-founder and President of the Virsa Foundation. Join them as they discuss the emotional landscape following the recent U.S. presidential election and offer insights on navigating both personal and planetary burnout. This important conversation explores the consequences of our hyper-polarized world and how ultra-processed marketing can shadow our ability to be free and independent thinkers.
Hawah and Nivi also discuss:
- How “collective” can sometimes be narrowly applied to just one group of people
- The relationship between ultra-processed foods and ultra-processed thoughts
- The deep impact of marketing and advertisement
- The Age of the Anthropocene
- The principle of reciprocity
- The experience of pain
- Cultivating self-compassion
- Regulating and co-regulating our relationships and emotions
- Karma and collective debt
- The magic of “Blue Zones”
- Staying human
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