Two Inconvenient Women

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring a stimulus that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Rachel explores the power of breath by sharing some of her own growing awareness of the impact of different ways of breathing on mind, body and emotions, whilst Holly muses on the role of ego and self-identity drawing on the character of Fool in Robin Hobb's fantasy series: The Assassin's Apprentice.

Some of the resources explored in this podcast include:

Robin Hobb's fantasy series (Books)
Breath: The new science of a lost art - James Nestor (Book)
Success: Ralph Waldo Emerson (quotation)

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Holly and Rachel join us this week from under a tree in Balliol College, Oxford, to share their thoughts half-way through the Transform Trauma conference 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In our last week of the summer break, Rachel finishes the summer season with a poem - sharing some of the beautiful sentiments of the late poet Wendell Berry, who passed away just a few days ago aged 92.

The Peace of Wild Things
- Wendell Berry-
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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As the Two Inconvenient Women are on our summer break over August, we're doing a round-up of some of our favourite episodes from the last couple of seasons.

This week, we share your top 3 episodes of the year so far. Here are our most downloaded episodes of Season 6:

Why is play so important (and not just for children)?
What's the point of hope?
Red Alert: can we talk about the climate emergency now?

There's an inconvenient movement growing...
It's not rebellion, exactly. More of a quiet refusal to look away. We're inconvenient. And if you feel it, then maybe you are too. Join us.
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