🎧 Rewilding Your Soul Podcast
Series: The Fear Beneath Everything
Episode 1 — The Quiet Panic
đźś‚ Episode Summary
In this opening episode of The Fear Beneath Everything, Gary introduces the new Rewilding Your Soul Podcast format — a rhythm of awareness, embodiment, and integration.He explores Ernest Becker’s concept of death anxiety and how our attempts to avoid it shape modern life.Through story, reflection, and honesty, Gary invites listeners to face the quiet panic beneath their need for control — not to dwell in darkness, but to rediscover aliveness.
đź’ˇ Key Themes
The Fear Beneath Everything: How fear of impermanence drives much of human behavior.
Ernest Becker’s “Denial of Death”: Understanding death anxiety as the hidden force behind our cultural obsession with control.
The Culture of Control: How achievement, productivity, and even spirituality become avoidance strategies.
The Body Always Knows: Recognizing how unprocessed fear shows up somatically.
Rewilding Fear: Meeting mortality with presence and courage instead of denial.
🧠Weekly Rhythm
Tuesday (Free): Awareness — long-form episodes exploring the week’s theme.
Thursday (Members): EchoWork Session → “Letting Time Move Through You,” featuring Pink Floyd’s Time — a guided somatic practice for meeting impermanence through sound and breath.
Sunday (Members): Stillpoint Letter → a quiet reflection and rest point for integration.
🪶 Notable Quotes
“When we can’t face death anxiety, we do whatever we can to not face it.”
“Becker called this our hero system — the ways we try to become gods in a world that keeps reminding us we’re not.”
“When we face the fear of ending, we discover the beginning that never left.”
đź’¬ Beautiful Question
Where in your life are you still trying to outrun time — and what might change if you let it catch up to you?
🎧 Listen + Support
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Weekly EchoWork practices
Sunday Stillpoint Letters
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Join the movement to rewild your soul — one rhythm, one breath, one act of rebellion at a time.
