Ever sit there thinking WTF?! Wondering how we are meant to keep going in a world that feels so fast, so fragile, and so unreal? You are not alone.
Rewrite Reality with short bite sized moments of honesty, curiosity, and gentle thoughtfulness. No noise. No rush. No pressure to have answers.
Many of us are carrying quiet worries about the future and trying to stay grounded while everything around us keeps shifting. These episodes create a calm place to slow down, breathe, and make sense of the stories that shape our lives.
If you are looking for a softer space to think, reflect, and reconnect with your own imagination, Rewrite Reality will meet you where you are.
Beginning again does not mean erasing the past. It means carrying forward what matters, and letting go of the patterns that do not.
In this final episode of Season One, Gregg the Artivist reflects on what shifted through making the podcast, what he is learning to do differently after burnout, and why small choices, telling the truth, slowing down, listening, imagining, are what make a new beginning possible.
You will also get a simple weekly practice: take 30 minutes with no screens and write yourself a note as if it is already next year. What do you want to carry forward, what do you want to leave behind, and what would make you proud, not because it is perfect, but because it is real.
Listener question
What does beginning again look like for you right now?
26 Feb 2026
The Courage to Rest Without Quitting
Rest is not quitting — it’s how we don’t quit. In this episode of Rewrite Reality, Gregg reflects on burnout, therapy, and why rest is resistance in a culture built on endless extraction. From Plot Zero’s lessons in seasons and recovery to a simple invitation for the week — half a day of real rest, no screens — this is a reminder that sustainable action needs pauses, care, and collective support. What would it look like to treat rest not as surrender, but as part of your strategy for staying in the work?
18 Feb 2026
Recalibrating Time — Living by Seasons, Not Schedules
"Time is not just what the clock tells us. It is light shifting across a wall. Soil resting between harvests. Energy rising and falling through the day.When we live only by deadlines and productivity, we lose rhythm. And when we lose rhythm, we lose ourselves.
Recalibrating time means returning to cycles instead of constant urgency. It means trusting seasons more than schedules — and discovering what becomes possible when we stop racing the clock and start listening to life."
12 Feb 2026
Kinship and Learning From the More Than Human
“Kinship is not a metaphor. It is a daily relationship with the more than human world that changes how we see, how we act and how we belong. And what becomes possible when we treat the lives around us not as background but as family we are in relationship with.”
5 Feb 2026
From Audience to Participant
“We are taught to see ourselves as spectators, scrolling through life instead of shaping it. But community begins the moment we move from watching to participating, from consuming to showing up in small and real ways. And what shifts in us when we take one step closer to with and one step further from at.”
29 Jan 2026
Stop Feeding the System
“So much of our time, attention, and emotion is quietly harvested by systems that rely on us being distracted and depleted. Stepping back from the platforms that feed on us is not withdrawal but an act of clarity, and a chance to reclaim what is real, grounded, and ours. And what begins to grow in us when we stop fuelling the very machine we are trying to change.”
22 Jan 2026
We Are So Far Past the Edge
“We like to believe crisis is something on the horizon, but the truth is we are already living in the aftermath of systems that have pushed far beyond their limits. Admitting we are past the edge does not remove the fear, but it opens a clearer and more honest way of paying attention to what still matters. And what rises in us when we stop clinging to illusions and face the world as it really is.”
15 Jan 2026
Why You Will Never Be the Same and Why That Is Not a Bad Thing
“There are moments in life when something shifts and you begin to see the world with new honesty, and there is no way back to who you were before. That change can feel heavy, but it can also reveal strength, clarity, and a deeper sense of who you are becoming. And what happens when we stop resisting that shift and begin to honour it.”
8 Jan 2026
The Truth About Climate Anxiety and Why You Are Not Broken
“Feeling anxious about the climate crisis does not mean something is wrong with you. It means you are paying attention to a world that is changing and you are responding with honesty rather than denial. And what becomes possible when we stop trying to feel less and start trusting what we already feel.”
1 Jan 2026
What Happened to Imagination
“Many of us feel like our imagination has faded, when in truth it has been pushed aside by systems that benefit from us staying stuck. What if imagination is not a luxury but a way back to connection, creativity, and possibility in our everyday lives. And what becomes possible when we reclaim the parts of ourselves we were taught to silence.”
25 Dec 2025
Why Uncertainty Might Be the Most Honest Place To Live From
“We spend so much of our lives chasing certainty, yet it rarely brings the clarity or comfort we expect. What if uncertainty is not a problem to solve but a place where truth, imagination, and possibility begin. And what changes when we loosen our grip and trust what is unfolding.”
18 Dec 2025
How Collapse Can Be the Start of Something Better
“Collapse is already shaping our lives in quiet and uneven ways, revealing what no longer works and what we can no longer pretend. What if the unraveling we fear is also the beginning of something more honest, more connected, and more alive. And what becomes possible when we treat collapse not as an ending but as a chance to begin again.”
11 Dec 2025
Are These Really Your Questions?
“We are surrounded by questions every day, yet so many of them are shaped by headlines, politics, and systems that do not reflect our lives. What happens when we slow down and start asking the questions that actually come from us, our communities, and our realities. And what changes when curiosity replaces certainty.”
4 Dec 2025
We're Normalising the Unthinkable!
“We are living through a time when the impossible becomes ordinary faster than we can process it. What does it mean for our humanity when disasters, inequality, conflict, and surveillance become things we just shrug at. And what changes when we stop accepting the unacceptable and begin imagining something different.”
27 Nov 2025
How to Stay Human in a Profoundly Sick Society
“What does it mean to stay human in a society that numbs us? How do we hold on to compassion, curiosity, and honesty in a world that rewards the opposite? And where do we rediscover our sense of self when the system keeps pulling us away from it.”
22 Nov 2025
What Climate Change Really Represents
What if climate change is not the problem, but the message?
In this opening episode of Rewrite Reality, Gregg explores what climate change really represents. This is a gentle and reflective moment to pause, breathe, and look beneath the headlines. What does this crisis reveal about our relationship with each other, with power, and with the world around us? And what becomes possible when we listen to the deeper story instead of the noise.
About this episode:
Recorded on 20 June 2024
Republished with updated intro on 17 September 2025
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Rewrite Reality, Gregg the Artivist, Climate Justice, Collapse Aware, Meaning Making
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