Bewildered
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.
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Change Cycle: Beauty That Moves
The culture tells us that whenever we achieve a goal, we're supposed to stay there:
“Now you're a butterfly. The End.”
Yet Nature, which we're all part of, is always changing.
In this final episod…
Change Cycle: Wild Horses
Have you ever felt driven to do specific excruciating tasks, and you couldn’t explain why?
This "wild horses feeling" is present whenever you're working toward your heart's desire, and it's a key pa…
Change Cycle: A Space for Dreaming
Change isn't always easy, but did you know that parts of the process can be a lot of fun?
In this second re-release episode from their four-part series about The Change Cycle, Martha and Ro are explo…
Change Cycle: Bug Soup
Do you know what happens to a caterpillar inside its cocoon?
It disintegrates into a gooey mass before its cells reform into a butterfly. This "bug soup" phase isn't pretty, but it's an essential pa…
Bittersweet Misunderstandings
The culture says it's a given that the people who love you will understand you. But very often, the people who love you don't understand you at all—yet they can have the strongest ideas about who you…
Beauty That Moves
Martha and Ro are coming “full square” on this episode of BEWILDERED® to talk about Square Four in Martha’s Change Cycle.
The culture tells us that whenever we achieve a goal, we're supposed to stay …
Zen and the Art of Travel With Toddlers
The hinges have come off, folks—Martha and Rowan have jet lag (and they're not afraid to use it!) in this episode of Bewildered: Zen and the Art of Traveling with Toddlers.
On two recent internation…
Best of Bewildered: Vulnerability Hangovers
Have you ever bravely shared your authentic self, only to agonize over it later thinking you shared too much?
This is something Brené Brown calls a "vulnerability hangover”—and we've all been there.
…
Best of Bewildered: Making the Right Choice
It's THE BEST OF BEWILDERED, and this week we’re revisiting another favorite episode from the vault: Making the Right Choice.
The culture believes there’s always a single right choice and that choosi…
Best of Bewildered: Elizabeth Gilbert gets Bewildered!
In case you missed out the first time around, Martha and Ro are sharing some of their all-time favorite episodes in a series called The Best of Bewildered.
First up, Elizabeth Gilbert Gets Bewildered…
Wild Horses
Have you ever felt driven to do specific excruciating tasks, and you couldn’t explain why?
While the culture mindlessly tells us we should always work hard, there's also a place in our true nature f…
Bug Soup
Do you know what happens to a caterpillar inside its cocoon?
It disintegrates into a gooey mass before its cells reform into a butterfly. Martha calls this state "bug soup." It's not pretty, but it'…
Dream Dashers and Way Stations
You know those big, magical dreams you can't seem to let go of, the ones that could change the whole course of your life?
Martha and Ro call these wild yearnings “way station dreams,” and you better…
The Deep, Slow River of Creativity
On this episode of BEWILDERED® Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Laurel, who's struggling to focus on a big creative project in a world full of distractions.
The culture tells us that we …
When to Leave
"Should I stay, or should I go?"
In this BeWild Files episode of BEWILDERED®, Martha and Ro dive into this question—and they say that the first step is to question our thoughts.
Why?
Because problems…
The Pull
Have you ever had the sense of being pulled towards something...but you had no idea why?
Martha and Ro call this mysterious feeling “the pull,” and they’re talking all about it in Episode 55 of BEWIL…
The Anxiety Files, Vol. 2: A Tiny Crunch of Fear
Anxiety in the culture—what exactly is going on there?
That's what Martha and Ro are trying to figure out in this special Anxiety Files episode of Bewildered.
As a society we create structures to co…
The Anxiety Files, Vol. 1: Courage and Avoidance
Anxiety is like breathing for Martha and Rowan…maybe it is for you too?
If so, you are sooo not alone! All over the world, anxiety is skyrocketing, and Martha and Ro are exploring this subject in dep…
Not Getting Enough Done
Most of us are plagued with the fear that we're not doing enough—it's practically the fuel our culture runs on. We're pressured to constantly do more and more, and we're taught that suffering is nece…
In Pursuit of Balance
In this BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Kathryn about how to live a balanced life each day instead of bouncing between extremes.
While our culture de…