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
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.
Stop Managing Nature: She Was Never Yours to Control
An exploration of humanity’s misguided belief that we can “manage” nature, and a call to surrender control, restore humility, and let the living world lead.
The Purpose of Life? To Own Your Mind Before Someone Else Does
Explore how modern life constantly manipulates our emotions, attention, and beliefs—and why the true purpose of life is reclaiming sovereignty over your own mind and body
Stillness as Medicine: The Art of Doing Nothing
A fierce reclamation of rest in a world addicted to productivity. Explore stillness as a living medicine—an antidote to burnout, hypervigilance, and the cult of constant doing.
Reciprocity Over Sustainability
A critique of sustainability as a consumer myth — and a call to move beyond “less harm” toward reciprocity, regeneration, and reverence. Explore how to shift from extractive habits to living in the right relationship with the Earth.
Skill, Mastery, and the Wild Mind
In a culture obsessed with titles and speed, Skill, Mastery, and the Wild Mind calls us back to depth — to the slow craft of learning, presence, and devotion. Explore how true mastery reconnects us to purpose, aliveness, and the sacred intelligence of doing one thing well.
The Inner Wilderness: Meeting the Unconscious Mind
A poetic dive into dreams, archetypes, and the symbolic ecology of the psyche. Discover how depth psychology mirrors nature’s cycles of decay and regeneration, and how rewilding the mind restores balance to both self and planet.
Ecological Grief: Mourning the Earth as a Path to Healing
Grief is not weakness — it’s love remembering its roots. Explore ecological grief as a sacred emotional response to environmental loss, the harm and healing of the last 50 years, and how mourning the Earth can restore connection, hope, and action.
The Wild Intelligence of Emotion
Emotions aren’t problems to fix — they’re messages from the body. Learn how emotions evolved as survival signals, how modern culture pathologized them, and how to rewild your emotional intelligence to reconnect with inner guidance.
The Work-Identity Split: Who Am I When I Stop Doing?
Modern culture equates worth with productivity — but who are we when we stop doing? Explore the history of the work-identity split and learn how to reclaim a sense of self beyond performance.