Bewildered

By: Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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  • What if we stopped listening to the controlling voice of the culture around us, and instead learned to reconnect with our own true nature?

    Sometimes we aren’t even sure why we feel so bewildered… and discontented… and even downright miserable. Often it’s because we have let the forces of society replace our own instinctive knowledge of what is right for us.

    Now, it’s time for us to find that voice again—before it’s too late.

    For Martha and Rowan, Job One is to live according to our deepest truths, making the commitment to feeling good even when it means looking weird. We believe that this is how we will reinvent our world—from the inside out— to create a society that’s kinder, more equitable, and more ecologically sustainable than the one we see around us right now.

    This is the vision that we laugh and stumble and chat and feel our way towards here on this podcast. Did we mention LAUGH? We want no part of personal and global transformation if it isn’t fun!

    So if you struggle to find a place where people who are as idealistic and brokenhearted, as silly and deeply sincere, as bewildered as you are—you might have just arrived.

    Welcome!
    2025 Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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Episodes
  • Why So Anxious?

    Why So Anxious?
    Jan 8 2025

    Do you suffer from the odd bit of anxiety?

    In this Bewildered, Martha and Ro are talking about Martha's new book Beyond Anxiety, which examines the causes of anxiety, its prevalence in our culture, and tried-and-true ways to overcome it.

    Martha says that moving more activity into the right sides of our brains is the only way to conquer anxiety—and the first step to getting there is curiosity.

    Tune in to hear more about cultivating curiosity to step out of anxiety and into a life of creativity and calm.

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    49 mins
  • Best of Bewildered: How to Get Started

    Best of Bewildered: How to Get Started
    Dec 11 2024

    In this Best of Bewildered episode, Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Josephine, who's trying to understand and overcome her resistance to doing things that are good for her.

    The culture tells us that if something is good for us, we should just do it! Otherwise, we need to punish ourselves.

    There's only one problem with that: Punishments don't work.

    To learn how Martha and Ro use kindness and creativity to get past inertia and move through transitions, be sure to listen to the full conversation!

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    47 mins
  • Best of Bewildered: The Other Butterflies

    Best of Bewildered: The Other Butterflies
    Nov 27 2024

    Martha and Ro have a very special guest on this Best of Bewildered episode…Ro's mum Paula!

    Paula has a mind-expanding story to tell about the time she followed monarch butterflies on their migratory path and learned that 10% of these butterflies always follow a different path—and for an unexpected reason.

    Tune in to find out the purpose of these aberrant butterflies' journey, why Martha and Ro relate to them so strongly, and why all paths through life, whether "normal" or divergent, are valid and valuable.

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    31 mins

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Topics always pertain to something I’m struggling with

I would give this podcast a 10 if I could! I found this podcast after reading 4 of Martha’s books and they found me in the lowest period of my life and gave me the courage to get up and try again.I’d recommend this podcast to any adult trying to figure themselves and society out and all of the different aspects that goes on between them both.There is also so much love between these two woman it makes their show such an easy listen with a truly heartfelt message.They honestly give a shit about the world and what’s going on in and around it!

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