Inner Work, Outer World
Claim This Podcastby Julia Dyer
Podcast Overview
<p>Some things in life don't respond to advice. They respond to something older than that.</p><p><strong>Inner Work, Outer World</strong> follows Finnegan — a small, sensitive fox navigating a loud and fast-moving world — through stories that speak to something most of us have never quite had words for. These are not children's stories. And they are not not children's stories. They are the kind of tales that work on you at any age — because they speak to something in us that never stopped being young, and never stopped wanting to understand the world a little more deeply.</p><p>After the story, host Julia walks through the themes together with you. Not to lecture or instruct — just to gently translate what you heard into your own life, your own patterns, your own inner world.</p><p>This podcast lives at the intersection of classical Tantra, nervous system science, and the ageless wisdom of myth and metaphor. But it doesn't feel like any of those things. It feels like a conversation with someone who gets it.</p><p>For the overthinkers, the deep feelers, the ones who come home exhausted from just being around people. For the eight year old who notices everything and the eighty year old who is still trying to make sense of what they've felt their whole life. For anyone who has ever been told they're too sensitive — and quietly wondered if that person was right.</p><p>You're not too much. You're just not in the right container yet.</p><p>Welcome to the forest.</p>
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3/21/2026
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July 17, 2026
The Ones You Get Small Around
<p>There are some people you can't quite be yourself around. Not because they're unkind. Because something in you gets quieter when they walk into the room, and you can't say exactly when it started.</p><p>The hardest version of this isn't around the people we dislike. It's around the ones we love — the ones whose presence we've chosen, over and over, and still, some old part of us gets small when they're near, and we don't know we're doing it.</p><p>This episode is about the very old part of the nervous system that quietly adjusts your size in the presence of something larger — and about the small, quiet moment when you notice you've done it.</p><p>Finnegan walks toward an overlook he loves and finds an old stag in his path. He takes the long way. Something in him goes softer at the edges. Not fear. Something older than fear.</p><p>Inside: a story about shrinking without deciding to, three things most conversations about this pattern miss, and a small practice for noticing where you go smaller than yourself.</p><p>Learn to stay with yourself.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://steadyselfschool.com">steadyselfschool.com</a></p>
July 10, 2026
"That One's Yours Now"
<p>For a long time, being useful was how you stayed in the room. But what happens when you're not the one holding things together anymore — when someone just looks at you, and there's nothing to fix, nothing to do with your hands? This episode is about the specific difficulty of being witnessed instead of needed: the fear underneath it, the old competence that quietly turns into its opposite, and what it means when someone stops doing the work for you so you can find out you were always capable of it yourself. Told through a story about a fox, a lantern, and a young kit striking flint for the first time — and a heron who doesn't ask a single question. Learn more at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://steadyselfschool.com/">steadyselfschool.com</a></p>
June 26, 2026
The "no" that Changes the Room
<p>Have you ever said no to something small and reasonable, and watched someone react like you'd done something much bigger than that?</p><p>If you've spent your life as the "automatic yes" — the fixer, the one who's good in a crisis — a no doesn't just land as a no. It lands as a rupture. And somehow, you're usually the one left feeling guilty about it.</p><p>In today's story, Finnegan comes across someone who has come to expect his help without question. He pauses, feels the old pull, and chooses not to act on it. The forest looks at him differently afterward. He goes home and looks in a still pool of water, and barely recognizes what he sees.</p><p>This episode is about what happens to the people around us when we stop saying yes automatically — why their reaction is information about the system and not a verdict on whether we were right, why guilt isn't evidence of wrongdoing, and what it means when a therapist once told Julia: "to a certain degree, we actually can choose how we are treated."</p><p>Also covered: protecting your own energetic space, asking someone to change how they speak to you, and when limiting contact is the healthiest option available.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://steadyselfschool.com">steadyselfschool.com</a></p>
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- What is Inner Work, Outer World?
<p>Some things in life don't respond to advice. They respond to something older than that.</p><p><strong>Inner Work, Outer World</strong> follows Finnegan — a small, sensitive fox navigating a loud and fast-moving world — through stories that speak to something most of us have never quite had words for. These are not children's stories. And they are not not children's stories. They are the kind of tales that work on you at any age — because they speak to something in us that never stopped being young, and never stopped wanting to understand the world a little more deeply.</p><p>After the story, host Julia walks through the themes together with you. Not to lecture or instruct — just to gently translate what you heard into your own life, your own patterns, your own inner world.</p><p>This podcast lives at the intersection of classical Tantra, nervous system science, and the ageless wisdom of myth and metaphor. But it doesn't feel like any of those things. It feels like a conversation with someone who gets it.</p><p>For the overthinkers, the deep feelers, the ones who come home exhausted from just being around people. For the eight year old who notices everything and the eighty year old who is still trying to make sense of what they've felt their whole life. For anyone who has ever been told they're too sensitive — and quietly wondered if that person was right.</p><p>You're not too much. You're just not in the right container yet.</p><p>Welcome to the forest.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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