# Sophie Strand

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365) Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling

"The transition from oral cultures into written cultures, for me, really signals a conceptual change that then uproots us from an embedded, environmental, relational existence, in such a way that a certain analytical, linear, and reductionist thinking becomes possible." In this episode, we welcome…

Pedro Pascal: The Internet's Daddy with Jeremy Johnston-Kaye

In this episode, Julie is joined by Jeremy Johnston-Kaye to talk about the phenomenon of Pedro Pascal. We consider him as an example of modern masculinity and fatherhood, both from the perspective of his real-life persona and his characters in Last of Us, Game of Thrones, Narcos, and more. In thi…

Release the Rancid Reservoir and Dig a Brand New Well

Maybe we’re never going to fully tear down the master’s house. Maybe we’re never going to fully out the old. Maybe the new gets layered over the old by degrees and half-measures and one beautiful, laborious story at a time. Share the vision widely enough, get enough others to buy into the new ficti…

The Body as Stage - Chronic Illness, Body Image & Body Grief : Episode 8

🎧 Episode 8: The Body as Stage - Chronic Illness, Body Image & Body Grief What happens when your body changes in ways you didn’t choose, and you no longer recognise yourself within it? Over the past seven episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, trauma, attachment, and neurodiv…

Make Me Good Soil w/ Sophie Strand

Sophie Strand is a writer and author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, The Madonna Secret, and her most recent book, a memoir called The Body Is a Doorway. She lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she writes about mythology, ecology, and the intersection between…

Motherless to Mothered

I woke up at 5am this morning unable to turn my mind off and go back to sleep. Thoughts and feelings of rage, helplessness, heartbreak, and deep, deep concern for humanity swimming in my mind. I am writing this maybe a little more activated than I would normally would write something for the pub…

24 - Stories That Create or Destroy: Myth, Death, and Animism with Sophie Strand

What if the crises of our time are not just ecological or political, but also mythological? Poet and author Sophie Strand joins Human Nature Odyssey for a wide-ranging conversation about stories, illness, ecology, and transformation. Drawing from mythology, religion, folklore, and her own experien…

Pádraig Ó Tuama – Feed the Beast

This week, I’m in conversation with queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown, whose theology and pastoral practice offer a re-embodied understanding of Christianity. Jarel is one of many theologians, poets and philosophers whose work has offered me an affirming and vit…

Sophie Strand and Henry Kramer on Imaginal Empathy, Consciousness and Re-Enchantment

Sophie Strand and Henry Kramer explore consciousness, mind, and the porous boundary between inner and outer experience. The conversation ranges from panpsychism and animism to imaginal empathy, ecology, myth, and why modern life makes it so hard to stay open to mystery. Sophie brings a wide ranging…

Dragon Romance, the Honeymoon Mind, and Falling for the Living World with Sophie Strand

For this episode I am joined by author, writer and dear friend Sophie Strand, who invited me into her home to have this wonderful conversation on romantasy as an antidote to doom - and so much more. In her work and life, Sophie focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology,…