Why This Homesteader Is Questioning Everything She Built

About this episode

In this episode, Corey and Christine discuss with Sarah Stutsman her journey of questioning the dogma of the crunchy movement and the impact of her ancestral lifestyle on her joy.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The crunchy movement has a dogma problem, and even the homesteaders are starting to question it. In this episode, Corey and Christine sit down with Sarah Stutsman of Wellfolk Revival, a homesteading mom of three teen daughters in Pennsylvania who has spent nearly two decades raising chickens, milking cows, fermenting everything, and teaching community classes in her renovated garage. But Sarah comes to the conversation with a confession: she's been holding her ancestral lifestyle a little too tightly. She's reading *The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry*, taking candle-light showers, and just last week, she bought cereal at the regular grocery store. Not the organic kind. And she's wondering if some of what she's been doing has cost her joy. Together, they unpack the trap of "perfect" ancestral living, why Sarah is rethinking the high-fat carnivore-leaning approach as she enters her mid-40s, the truth about perimenopause (and whether the word itself is a pharmaceutical invention), and how chronic stress may be…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Sarah Stutsman

Topics covered

• homesteading
• ancestral living
• perimenopause
• chronic stress
• cultural addiction to busyness
• self-sabotage

Keywords

• homesteading
• ancestral lifestyle
• perimenopause
• chronic stress
• self-sabotage
• cultural busyness
• high-fat carnivore
• herbal remedies

Sponsors

Earthley

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wellfolk Revival

Books & works: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

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