Author Meera Innes - Conscious Singlehood in your 40s & Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Dearest listeners,

Prepare yourself for more than surface-level discourse...

This week, I'm sitting down with arguably one of my favourite friends in recent times - Meera Innes - writer, cultural observer and in her own words consistent "inquisitor of life". Based in Berlin though with a thoroughly cosmopolitan background, Meera models "conscious" living. Choosing, at this stage in her early 40s, to cultivate a rhythm, value system, social circle and self-care practice that is profoundly personalised and selective. As she says; if a person, place or experience doesn't enhance her life or align with her values, it's a simple no. Not from a lack of compassion / adaptability; but from a deep recognition that it is only in living "congruently" (outsides matching insides) that we find peace and purpose.

In our conversation, we dive into Meera's personal and authorial learnings - touching especially on what we can learn and role-model during this especially turbulent time in human existence. Themes include:

- How to balance the yearning for connection with the need for independence, self-reflection & creative autonomy
- Seeing, sensing and "managing" the world with ADHD
- Whether we can "feel" / "find" ourselves in singleness, versus through the self-discovery that naturally comes from being in "relationship"
- What dating in your 30s and 40s teaches you
- Writing as living prayer - what it soothes, satisfies and serves
- Whether we have permission to "speak" to collective suffering
- How we cultivate self-attention as an "others-oriented" person

For More on Meera & to access her work
Instagram: @meerabell
Substack: substack.com/@meerabel/posts
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Sending love and light to wherever this finds you dear ones,
A x