Aug 19, 2025
What happens when life brings you to your knees—and you don’t know if you’ll rise again?
In this soul-rich conversation, Dr. Tamsin Astor joins us in the Mapping the Descent series to explore what it means to face real death, cultural death, and identity death... and emerge to tell the tale.
Tamsin shares how her child’s life-threatening medical diagnosis pulled her into the underworld, how Western culture’s discomfort with death shaped her experience, and how she began rebuilding from the ground up with the tools of mindfulness, movement, habit, humor, and spiritual curiosity.
We talk about:
Why the descent asks us to stop trying to fix ourselves, and what to do instead
The role and rediscovery of rituals—and our collective loss of them
Why joy isn’t always a feeling, but a practice
Navigating trauma, mental health, and dark seasons of life
The power of community where you can be messy and still be loved
This episode is a balm and a reckoning. A reminder that when everything breaks apart, something ancient remembers how to begin again.
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