Emotional Permaculture · Permaculture Women Magazine

Start Where You are: Discovery at Zone 00

In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.

A Manifest for the Embodiment of Imperfection

We all want to become better, fitter, happier. As long as we believe in guilt and shame, though, self-improvement is bound to make us suffer.

The garden in the mind, your mind on your garden

Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.

Community Building: Social and Spiritual Permaculture for Intentional Communities and Transition Towns

Our ecovillage set up ‘invisible structures’, to build a strong community, to work together well, from practical land care to our deepest vision.

My Permaculture Wealth Building Journey

Permaculture offers a rich toolkit for designing for holistic abundance not only in our landscapes, but our personal finances as well.

How to get started with zone 00 design? My experience with designing my inner landscape

This article is the second of a series about designing for your inner landscape | you can read the first part there: What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:

Poetics of communication

There’s an issue that needs addressing, like a PO-box of understanding, of enthusiastically awaiting new mail to arrive, like the birds of yesterday in harmonic screeches of today’s fairy tales.

What is zone 00 design and why should you start yours?!

I don’t know you, but for me, reading self-development books has always been intensely frustrating.

Colonial Trauma: No, I Won’t Confess, I Will Say It Out Loud!

A poem about wounds created by Patriarchy, Religion, and Capitalism.

How to learn humility for a better tomorrow

by Matilde Magro Step by step guide of 10 easy ways to reconnect with yourself and to love the life you live. 1. Recognize kinship with…

Lessons From A Tree: Living and Creating With Earth As Play

Am I done with choosing struggle? What would it be like to navigate the unknown with play? This is the story of how a tree showed me a way.

Caring for (More-than-Natal) Kin in Times of Loss

I think of the countless beings displaced by and lost to the flames, of the places and plants and memories mingling in the ash, of all those struggling to breathe.

How to Have Difficult Conversations

How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.

Empathy For a Houseplant

The plant sat in the clearance section of a grocery store for a few dollars looking thirsty and in need of rescue

My 10-Point Plan for Feral Eldership

I only wish to become old if I can also become an elder.

Embers of Hope: Embracing Life in an Age of Ecological Destruction and Climate Chaos

The future of life on Earth is uncertain and our lifetimes are finite. Consider our own deaths as well as the possibilities of climate catastrophe.

Watering Our Seeds

There is resilience in everything..in seeds too..and perhaps plants learn resilience as they grow.

Kindness Circles, surrounding community

It’s interesting how a simple act of kindness can multiply itself into thousands of good deeds in a short time, but how does that happen?

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught…

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and time, and turned 90 acres into a lush edible forest. Here’s their story. “Every expert…

We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)

Stitched up as we are I figure we can Lilo it out of here! Recently I read another article about how it’s now considered fact; we…

Approaching menopause as a childfree woman

By Gudrun Cartwright As a woman in my late forties, I am definitely approaching menopause. I feel in that ‘peri’ state. Even though I am…

War, what is it good for?

War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.

Confronting Shame — The Last Door

By Julia Pereira Dias Shame spits into your romantic dinner. Shame coughs blood on the hands that reach out. Shame laughs its ugly cackle at…

Archetypes and the power to transform

By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying and even celebrating your “inputs and outputs”, as a human that is a complicated, sometimes…

Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy

Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As a birth doula and mother of fifteen years and counting I often see and distincly…

The Best Advice

By Julia Pereira Dias Aren’t we the selfless ones? “My husband could save so much time, if only he’d listen to me,” sighs Diane. She…

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

Strength and Resistance à la Woman

Learning a new way of living from an elder Iranian farmer By Kali Morgan Of late, I have been consumed by the stories of strong, bold,…

Are You Willing To Receive?

By Julia Pereira Dias Most of us are primarily concerned with the question: what can I get? That question is futile. You can have it…

A Simple Meditation for Pandemic, Climate Emergency and Other Disasters

By Dido Dunlop In times like now, our emotional strength and resilience can feel drained away. It can seem like our inner resources are not…

Mapping and landing in a living world: how a Permaculture Design Course helped me organize my life

When I enrolled in a Permaculture Design Course in 2013, my youngest child was only three months old, and we had only recently landed in Scotland. I had spent most of my adult life away from Scotland…