Author name: Peter Schulte

The polycrisis is the knot of crises facing humanity today, all intensifying and complicating one another. But it’s not just that. Our internal experience of these crises is itself a real crisis. Living with the deeply troubling challenges of our world, with the growing possibility that civilization as we know it will collapse within our lifetime, elicits anxiety, despair, and existential dread within so many of us.  The climate crisis alone is enough to do this. In a 2021 Lancet Planetary Health study of 10,000 young people aged 16–25 across ten countries, 75% said ‘the future is frightening,’ and 56% said […]

Humanity in the 21st Century is facing a seemingly endless stream of crises: the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, poverty, economic inequality, pandemics, growing authoritarianism, terrorism, gun violence, runaway technological advancement, the erosion of shared knowledge and meaning, and much more.

The hero begins their journey in the “ordinary world” of relative peace, comfort, and familiarity. The antihero begins their journey already in the extraordinary world, already striving for heroic greatness, already exhausted trying to be something they will never be.

Your “issues” are only ever just a tiny fraction of who you are. They are potholes in the road. They are a puff of cloud temporarily blocking out the vast Sun of your being.

You are unique. You are beautiful. You are whole. Just like everyone else.

After a big life choice — a new job, a new city, the end of a relationship — it’s almost impossible not to ask: did I make the right decision? Here’s why that question keeps you stuck, and the reframe that helps you stop second-guessing, commit to your path, and move forward.