Top 5% Spotify Most Shared Podcasts, the Higher Love with Megan Podcast is not just another 'nice-to-have' wellness podcast. It is a disruptive challenge to the status quo, breaking out of the echo chamber of societal narratives within wellness and beyond. Join me, your host, Megan Cooper, a trauma-informed therapist and coach, as we foster an inclusive, diverse space that stands for higher love for all. Through thought-provoking, bold conversations that reunite wellness with social justice and activism, we remember our collective humanity and stand together as ambassadors for change.
Grieving our way to a new world with Nicola Duffell
In this episode, Nicola Duffell and I explore the profound and often misunderstood realm of grief, emphasising its role in personal and collective liberation. We discuss grief's wild, messy nature and how that frees us from conditioned needs for structure, control and neatness. We open up to grief in the collective sense, a grief for a world that is burning, fairytales we lived in before brutal initiations into stark realities, our connection to the earth, our lineages and to each other. We discuss how expanding our relationship with grief is essential for reimagining future possibility and can foster deeper humanity and healing.
About Nicola: Nicola Duffell calls herself a Life Mentor, Grief + Soul Activist - Poet, Writer + Author. She sees herself as a grief worker, with journeying with grief at the heart of all she does as a space-holder and human.
Key Topics:
The societal misunderstanding of grief and its implications
Grief as an ongoing apprenticeship and relational process
The role of storytelling and ritual in grief work
The concept of soul severance and the shattering of illusions
The importance of collective grief and community support
Decolonizing grief and restoring cultural practices
The gates of grief and their significance
The relationship between grief, trauma, and systemic oppression
The role of imagination and poetry in healing grief
Practical ways to tend to grief in daily life
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to the episode and guest Nicola Duffell
02:20 Why grief is not just about loss of loved ones
05:23 Society's misunderstanding and repression of grief
08:25 The myth of grief being finite and 'getting over it'
09:54 Grief in all aspects of life and its relational nature
11:18 The sacredness of grief and the importance of community
15:57 Collective grief in times of global crisis
22:43 The shattering of illusions and worldviews
26:21 The necessity of grief for liberation and reimagination
36:57 The moments that punctuate our collective grief
44:37 Healing the earth’s grief and the role of nature
54:38 The link between unresolved grief and war
55:31 Decolonial approaches to grief and cultural restoration
01:00:21 The gates of grief and their significance
01:04:10 The importance of truth and unearthing hidden grief
01:07:36 The ongoing journey of grief and reimagining possibilities
References:
Nicola Duffell: https://www.nicoladuffell.com/
Francis Weller: https://www.francisweller.net/
Life's Poetry by Nicola Duffell: https://www.nicoladuffell.com/lifes-poetry-the-book
29 Jul 2026
Relating in the Time of Polycrisis with Keri Jarvis
This week I welcome back the superb Keri Jarvis, who joined me for the episode "Disrupting the Wellness Industry" back in 2024. One of the wisest and most sensible people I have in my circle (as well as suitably radical and feisty - obviously) Keri shares her reflections on the ways we do and do not relate in today's world. Observing how many of the conditions and structures of our lives have rendered us relationally de-skilled, Keri and I explore possibility for communication, honesty, vulnerability, understanding and knowing ourselves and each other in a world which is increasingly polarised, divided and in short - a time of polycrisis!
This is a must-listen episode for how we might actually create the environments and relational dynamics for what Keri calls, liveable futures TOGETHER.
In this episode:
- how systems of capitalism, supremacy and patriarchy have informed the way we interact with one another and in many respects deskilled us.- how mainstream ‘wellness culture’ or ‘Western psychology’ in some ways perpetuates some of these relational challenges, despite best intentions
- how spaces of activism and social change can also mirror relational complexity and cycles of relational harm
eimagining possibility for how we may be together in relational intimacy
About Keri:
Keri Jarvis is a Leftist Coach, Thought Partner & Community Activist supporting people to navigate the relational complexity of the polycrisis.
Keri is deeply interested in how we’ve been relationally de-skilled, and disciplined into seeing ourselves and one another as separate cogs in a machine within Last Stage Capitalism. Her work supports people to develop more agile relationships with themselves, fertilising the possibility of generative, resilient relational dynamics.
She believes the portals to liveable futures can be entered through our relationships- if only we can bear to be perceived.
To contact Keri: https://www.kerijarvis.com/
Key Topics:
Relational de-skilling under capitalism
The paradox of intimacy and estrangement
Impact of wellness culture on relationships
Strategies for relational courage and vulnerability
Reimagining community through radical engagement
The role of boundaries and grey areas in connection
The importance of compassion and self-awareness
Activism and relational work in social change
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and guest background
02:10 The relational paradox: desire for intimacy vs. fear of being known
05:01 Impact of capitalism and social systems on relational skills
09:02 The influence of wellness culture and individualism
15:02 Reimagining community through radical engagement
19:53 The importance of relational complexity and uncertainty
24:48 The role of boundaries and self-awareness in relationships
30:10 Practicing honesty and vulnerability in social change
35:05 The power of small acts of kindness and connection
39:56 Developing courage and compassion in activism
45:02 The potential of strangers and everyday interactions
49:56 Self-compassion and growth through relational challenges
01:00:07 Course announcement and closing remarks
Resources:
Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi
The Second Body by Daisy Hilgard
George Monbiot at The Guardian
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Love in a Fucked Up World by Dean Spade
Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane
Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement with Adam Kahane
The Portal e-learning platform: https://collective.jointheportal.com/about-the-portal-collective
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15 Jul 2026
🔑 PANEL EVENT: "A conversation of hope between survivors" with Stephen Kapos and Antoine Raffoul
We're back! How better to arrive back than bring you the conversation I had the pleasure and honour of moderating in person back in May at Palestine House organised by the Galilee Foundation as part of a week-long series of events to commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba.
This conversation was between the celebrated voices of solidarity, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and Palestinian Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul.
Stephen and Antoine are two survivors from different tragedies but united in their similar experiences of catastrophe. Together they share common stories of resilience, hope and resistance.
This conversation highlights their lived experiences, reflections on justice, and visions for rebuilding Palestine through their shared lenses as architects. This event also illustrates the importance of storytelling as a form of resistance. Antoine and Stephen remind us that hope, coordination, and international solidarity are essential in confronting ongoing injustices. Their stories underscore that history may repeat, but collective action can lead to meaningful change.
At the event we also saw the debut screening of SURVIVORS - a documentary chronicling the lives of Stephen and Antoine brought to us by award-winning film-makers Think, Make, Create founded by Jacqui Beaumont and Andrea Kapos, Stephen's daughter. WATCH THIS TEASER NOW!
Please consider a donation to the Galilee Foundation and or the crowdfunder set up to bring SURVIVORS to our screens worldwide! All links below:
The Galilee Foundation: https://www.galileefoundation.org.uk/
Think Make Create: https://thinkmakecreate.com/
SURVIVORS Documentary Official Teaser: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=69D-zrUipmw
SURVIVORS Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/survivors-campaign#
The New Arab article: https://www.newarab.com/features/two-survivors-one-struggle-holocaust-nakba-and-gaza
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