Ep 40. Beyond the Binary: Re-Enchanting Practice Without Losing Our Critical Edge with Miriam Latif

About this episode

Casey Conroy and Miriam Latif discuss the complexities of wellness, the impact of capitalism on diet culture, and the importance of embracing uncertainty.

Casey sits down with herbalist, writer, and mentor Miriam Latif (Understory) for a heart-opening conversation about uncertainty, nuance, and practicing in the messy middle spaces of wellness. They unpack the collapse of certainty, the harm of binaries, how capitalism shows up in diet and purity culture, and what it means to hold both clinical rigour and enchantment. What You’ll Hear About: Holding uncertainty without collapsing into doubt The grief and liberation of “has everything...

People in this episode

Host: Casey

Guest: Miriam Latif

Topics covered

• uncertainty
• nuance
• wellness
• diet culture
• capitalism
• clinical rigour

Keywords

• binaries
• purity culture
• enchantment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Beyond the Binary: Re-Enchanting Practice Without Losing Our Critical Edge

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