S14 E12: Why I Don't Live Like the Sky is Falling

There's a lot of fear floating around the homestead community lately. In today's episode I'll share my history with paranoia, how it ultimately will hurt your homestead, and why I no longer subscribe to fear-based homesteading.Podcast Episode HighlightsThoughts about the term' homestead'Concerns about current shifts in what 'homestead' meansWhy I think fear has creeped into the homestead movementMy background with paranoia-based cultureCycles, perspectives, and a closer look at historyReading suggestionsPreparedness and pleasure vs. fear and panicConfirmation bias and issues with social mediaOccam's razor principleBaader-Meinhof phenomenonFinal thoughts on being aware and asking questionsPodcast Episode Resources and Links MentionedGet weekly musings from my homestead: http://theprairiehomestead.com/letterMy homesteading tutorials & recipes: www.theprairiehomestead.comOur Wyoming-raised, grass-finished beef: http://genuinebeefco.comJill on Instagram: @jill.wingerJill on Facebook: http://facebook.com/theprairiehomesteadApply to be a guest on the Old-Fashioned on Purpose podcast: https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/podcast-guest-application

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Have you felt it? Something is rippling through humanity at this moment. It's a stirring... a longing... a remembering. A sense that we are more capable than we’ve been led to believe. We want to feel alive, not sedated.. but we've lost our way. We've traded a life intertwined with nature for asphalt and artificial lights. We've swapped natural movement for a sedentary existence. We've given up food from the earth in favor of food from the factory. We've sacrificed our traditional skillsets for apps and gadgets. But while our overdose on modernity may have made us sick, there is an antidote. Join best-selling author and mentor, Jill Winger, each week as she digs into a different facet of the old-fashioned on purpose lifestyle.