Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality · Forrest Inslee

Finding Wholeness in Wilderness Adventure, with Jason Lyle | Ep. 132

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His adoption story shaped a trigger that flipped under scrutiny until outdoor regulation changed his response.

Forrest Inslee begins by naming a concern that runs beneath the whole conversation: earth-care talk can become so familiar to insiders that it starts to sound distant to everyone else. He admits that he worries about phrases like eco-spirituality, forest bathing, and even matter-of-fact talk about conversations with trees. He wonders whether that language can make people feel pushed away from the topic. The guest then brings the discussion back to the body. He describes how paying attention to physical signals changed the way he thinks about food, fasting, and health. He talks about noticing that supplements left him bloated and made him feel as if his liver were swollen, then stopping them and feeling better two days later. He describes moving toward a mostly vegetarian, pescatarian way of eating. He also jokes about being a vegetarian hunter because he still takes guys elk hunting. That contradiction is treated less like a problem than a plain part of his life. He says the point is not protest for its own sake. He says the point is paying attention. He explains that he fasts every Monday and Thursday because he wants to feel hungry, give his body a break from digesting, and learn not to answer every craving right away. He also recalls learning how to connect his prefrontal cortex to his limbic system. In his telling, that change let years of theology download into his body. From there, everything looked different. The episode keeps circling this same pattern. Reflection becomes embodiment. Belief becomes appetite. Ecology becomes something personal and physical rather than abstract. Forrest keeps the tone open and searching. The guest answers with concrete habits, memorable turns of phrase, and a willingness to let the conversation stay unfinished. The result is a reflective episode that treats earth care as a way of living inside a body, not just holding a view about the world. It also treats language itself as part of the work, asking how to speak about creation in a way that does not shut people out. That question stays present throughout the conversation, even when the discussion moves into diet, fasting, or hunting. The episode ultimately suggests that attention to place and attention to the body belong together.

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Earth care here is treated as something you can feel in your body, not just discuss.

This conversation sits at the point where earth care stops sounding abstract and starts feeling lived. Forrest Inslee opens with a plainspoken worry about jargon in earth-care circles, and the guest answers with habits that stay close to the body: fasting, food, hunting, and…

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You want earth-care talk that stays close to everyday experience and does not hide behind jargon.

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