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Hello From Indonesia
I’ve been a bit off the grid these past few weeks, immersed in wild wonder with Komodo dragons, orangutans, proboscis monkeys, carnivorous pitcher plants, parrotfish, sea turtles, and so many other unforgettable new friends. Watch for my full newsletter next week, with lots of amazing stories, photos, and resilience lessons!
For now, exciting news! My first book is here! Join me this Friday, March 20, at 12:00 p.m. ET for the live launch of How We Flourish! I’m thrilled to be one of the contributing authors! My chapter, The Wild Wisdom of Sleep, explores the parrotfish sleep bubble as a powerful resilience tool, much like my podcast episode on it. Details are below, along with how to register and purchase the book too. Hope to see you there!!!
Coming next week: a fabulous new Resilience Gone Wild podcast episode about coffee. It’s rich with coffee’s fascinating history and challenges, the plant’s brilliant development of caffeine, and what its remarkable adaptations can teach us about nudging our own lives in wiser directions. My guests are three extraordinary leaders in the coffee industry: Etelle Higonnet, a knighted human rights powerhouse; Sebastian Nielsen, a CEO who is literally healing the earth; and Andrés Montenegro, the heart and soul of the specialty coffee community.
And... My recent podcast episode about pangolins and wildlife trafficking has been especially front and center for me during this trip. It’s a powerful listen for anyone who wants to better understand the devastating scale of this nightmare for so many endangered species, and you can help.
It's here! Finally! My latest podcast episode. And it's one of the most interesting and important episodes I've ever made, especially if you drink coffee or know anyone who does!
Apologies for the long pause. And thank you to the many wonderfully impatient people who have been nudging me about getting it done!
We live in a world that presses for speed. We fill silence with noise, gaps with content, stillness with scrolling. Yet science and wisdom traditions alike tell us that the pause is sacred time. It's where our best thinking happens. It's where the nervous system regulates, where creativity surfaces, where we stop reacting on autopilot and start making choices that actually reflect who we want to be.
Viktor Frankl wrote that between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies our power to choose. That space is where resilience grows.
A pause can be a breath before you respond to a hard email. A walk without your phone. A season of quiet. Or apparently, a gap between podcast episodes. However it comes, the pause is an act of resilience that we all need to embrace.
I've been living in that pause, pursuing some related paths and honoring the opportunity to let the episode slow brew. And I came out of it with something I'm so excited to share, an episode with a different style and cadence than anything I've done before. I think you're going to love it. Let me know please!
Gripping Tighter Just May Be Your Key to Building a Better Sleep Bubble
I’m fascinated by the different ways nature protects sleep.
In Borneo last week, while motoring down the Sekonyer River at sunset on our klotok boat, I watched hundreds of long-tailed macaques perched on high branches hanging over the river and wondered: how on earth do they sleep up there without falling?
It turns out, they have it mastered. They sleep in groups, holding each other close for better stability and balance across all those branches. They also choose clever sleeping spots, often over rivers, where they can better spot danger and, if needed, drop into the water and swim away from a predator.
They also have thick butt pads that help hold them snugly on those branches. And this last adaptation totally blew my mind: instead of going limp in sleep the way we do, their tendons tighten so they can keep gripping both the branches and each other with their hands and feet.
Fascinating!!
So what’s the resilience lesson for us?
Sometimes gripping tighter is exactly the right move. When you’re worried about the safety of someone you love, get closer and grip tighter. Let them know you care. Tell them what’s worrying you. Be there for them. They may be carrying the very same fears and losing sleep over them too.
Love to know more about animals and sleep?
Check out my podcast episode #42 with animal sleep expert Dr. John Lesku who shared some amazing stories!
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