The FERAL Journal is a place to unlearn the noise — to strip back the filters, the formulas, the false calm of performative wellness — and return to what’s real. Here, we write from the dirt up: about food as freedom, nature as teacher, and the quiet revolution of living in rhythm with the earth.
THE FERAL JOURNAL
Financial Anxiety and the Nervous System
Financial anxiety isn’t just mental—it’s physiological. Explore how money stress activates the nervous system, why avoidance intensifies anxiety, and how grounding, clarity, and intentional planning can restore emotional equilibrium in an unpredictable world.
Information Overload: The Modern Brain in Crisis
Information overload is pushing the modern brain into crisis. Explore the cognitive and nervous system cost of constant input, and how to reclaim mental spaciousness through ritual, attention hygiene, and sensory simplicity.
Co-Regulation: The Forgotten Technology of Togetherness
Co-regulation is the nervous system’s original technology - long before self-care apps and solo healing. Explore how humans evolved to regulate emotions together, why isolation dysregulates us, and how reclaiming connection restores safety, resilience, and belonging.
Breathwork and the Animal Mind
Breathwork isn’t about transcendence, it’s about speaking the language of the animal nervous system. Explore how breath reconnects you to instinct, regulation, and the sovereign wisdom of the body.
The Sacred Ordinary: Finding the Divine in the Natural World
Explore how divinity lives not in abstraction, but in the natural world, the body, and everyday rhythms. Reclaim your reverence without religion, remembering our connection to nature, and finding meaning through embodiment rather than belief.
From Hustle to Flow: Reclaiming Natural Rhythms at Work
Discover how to move from hustle to flow by aligning your work with natural rhythms. Learn how to work with your body’s energy cycles, reduce burnout, and find balance between productivity and presence.
If Wealth Made Us Free, We’d Be Free by Now
An exploration of community economics beyond individual wealth — from co-ops and barter to local currencies and shared resources. A rebellious take on interdependence, mutual aid, and why hoarding money like a dragon hasn’t made us free.
Kinship Beyond Blood: Earth, Ancestors, and Future Generations
An exploration of chosen family, interspecies kinship, and the wild, expansive belonging that stretches from earth to ancestors to future generations.
Regulating the Storm: Nervous System Literacy in a Disregulated World
A dive into polyvagal theory, co-regulation, and the ancient somatic practices that help us soothe, reconnect, and return to ourselves. Learn how movement, rhythm, and human presence can rewire a stressed modern body back into safety and connection.
The Four Fields of Vocation: Why Career Clarity Is Cyclical — Not Linear
Discover FERAL’s framework for understanding vocation through four fields - Calling, Craft, Contribution, and Chaos. A truth-telling guide to why career clarity is cyclical, wild, and designed to evolve.