Prioritise Spiritual Prepping with Emily Coats

About this episode

Catie Payne discusses spiritual preparedness and activism with guest Emily Coats, exploring themes of nature connection and personal loss.

I tell a story about my grandpa's deathbed song request before having a heart-to-heart with Emily Coats, a deep nature connection facilitator, ancestral skills practitioner, threshold-crossing guide and dreamworker. In this convo: Shakespearean activism What the world needs right now (hint: not more intellect) Ways to wholeness Does activism have to feel hard and gnarly? Being precise in the ripples we cast What happens at Tracker School Ancient skills… for survival? Why to prioritise spiritual preparedness How we live and how we die Losing her dad; the gifts and lessons Intentions vs. realities of living in a handmade black wattle shelter offline, offgrid and alone for 7.5 months How to use spirit tracking to find lost stuff 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ [starts soon in Naarm] Earth Time: The Lost Art of Being Human [https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/events/earth-time-human-winter] Emily's home on the web [https://emilycoats.net/] Emily on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/_emily_coats_/] Nature's Apprentice [https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/] Nature Based Leadership Training [https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/events/nblt-2026/] Bill Plotkin & Animas Valley Institute…

People in this episode

Host: Catie Payne

Guest: Emily Coats

Topics covered

• spiritual preparedness
• activism
• nature connection
• ancestral skills
• survival skills
• personal loss
• wholeness

Keywords

• spiritual prepping
• activism
• nature connection
• ancestral skills
• survival
• personal loss
• wholeness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tracker School, Nature's Apprentice, Animas Valley Institute

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