Introduction to The Unwritten

This is where it began. In this first episode I share how The Unwritten came to be — the name, the vision, and what I hope this space becomes. Twenty years of practice in herbalism, intuitive work, and energy medicine have taught me that the most important things rarely make it onto paper. This is my attempt to change that.
If you’re someone who has always sensed there was more to the story — you’re in the right place.

The Unwritten — Archives of the Realm

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The Unwritten — Archives of the Realm

Transcript

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Hello. Thank you so much for tuning in to The Unwritten. This is Diana, and I am hoping that this turns into a useful podcast for someone out there other than myself. My intention with The Unwritten is to share a lot of stories and experiences from different perspectives. Very possibly, depending on yourself, of course, very possibly a different way to meet and interact with what I call the realm. The realm for most people being spiritual work, healing work, alternative medicine and stuff, new age stuff, earth medicine, magic, you name it. That's why I call it the realm, because there's so much in there. And saying spiritual stuff is never like oh, it's the spiritual journey. Those for many reasons, I'm sure I'll talk about. It didn't feel right. I like the realm. It's purposely very ambiguous and mysterious, I would think. So it will be, and for it to just give you a sense of me, my tone, my voice, although I'm sure it'll be different. One episode to the other, a lot of them being outside, as you'll hear. Birds and wind and my dog do some of my best thinking and talking outside. So the realm of the unwritten, the unwritten within the realm. I have had the privilege, and it really has been such a privilege, such a blessing to study with and mentor with many individuals, souls that practice what I call the old ways. You're gonna hear a lot of made-up words from me, phrases. So the old ways in the realm, being the sort of mythos and ethos architecture of practices that probably many of you are familiar with, paradigms many of you are familiar with, but very likely from a different angle from an unwritten way. And as information continues to become more and more accessible, I find that the unwritten ways that my mentors shared with me seems to be resurfacing a little bit more, which is exciting. And it's been really inspiring to share. And you'll learn from me, I don't think in right and wrong, fact or fiction, by no means is the unwritten the right way. I hope you won't see this the wrong way either. It's just a different path. That's it. So my history in the realm started at a very young age. Many of you can probably relate. Just that kid that was introduced and shy, even as I broke out of my shell and became less introverted and shy. I was always the kid that wanted to go outside, hang out with animals and look at rocks and collect my favorite rocks and twigs, or you know, hang out with wild creatures often, if not preferably. So I was definitely an empathic, sensitive kid from day one. Fascination with everything in the natural world, human behavior, and just like a ferocious curiosity, always asking why. Like I was that traditional why kid when I had the courage to speak up. Well, why, but why, but why? Well, these are the rules, but why? Also very disenfranchised from day one, uh, likely due to growing up with what was then very much considered learning disabilities and deficiencies in attention. And reading and writing didn't happen for me until I was about nine years old, which was tricky, as one can imagine, along with just thinking really differently. And that's okay. Not better, not worse, just different. And I'm really grateful for it in so many ways because it reinforced, I didn't know it at the time, but it really reinforced the my own internal foundation, my own ethos to emerge into the practitioner, storyteller, also known as teacher. I love the word storyteller or the the sort of archetype opposed to you know instructor. Um again, there's nothing wrong with using those labels, it just doesn't feel as applicable to myself. So, as challenging as many years of my life have been, I'm definitely at an age and stage now that I can appreciate the it really does feel like a sort of obstacle course training that I went through, maybe a little younger, more aggressively than some, you know, a lot would call it. We would meet the prereq for trauma, sure. And maybe for a while it did show up that way. But I'm just so grateful for those experiences that I had at a young age. It's almost like they were safeguards in place so that I could maintain my reference point inwardly and outwardly. And again, you're gonna get sick and tired of hearing this, not because it's a better one, but because we need diversity. Healthy ecosystems require diversity. And for Homo sapien sapiens, as the Smimilian species we are, we need different reference points. And that's really all I'm here to offer is just stories that have in a lot of ways been unwritten so far. And I'm really excited to share them with you. I hope that this just feels like conversation. I hope it feels like a whooping and safe, but also kind of uncomfortable and challenging conversation. And I hope you join in. And I know I'm gonna hear a lot if I'm lucky enough to have the listeners. I'm gonna hear a lot of supportive and challenging things, but I'm here for all of it. I would hope at my age I would be, I'd be here for all of it. So thank you for tuning into the intro. I'm excited to see where this goes.