Turns out, there are no bad emotions (anger, resentment, fear, etc). They can all be good, if we can remember to pause and then search the intelligence in them. In this episode, that is just one of the many pearls that today’s guest, Cat Tweedie, teaches us about. She is co-founder of Sleepawake Camp: a wonderful organization with a fresh take on coping with our world for young people, but her insights are fresh and useful, no matter your age.  

(00:00- 06:00) OPENING
(06:01- 21:38)

The “How’s” in Cat’s life

The making of SleepAwake camp

All the pieces suddenly make sense

“Every bit of me is being used up”

“What I think is the right thing until I hear from my body, this is it!”

SleepAwake camp works on skills that are missing on the educational system

Learn how to navigate those currents of energy… intelligence and beauty in all the impulses that arise

Understanding our projections we each carry… we can begin to loosen the shame that people are often holding in their projected world. 

Late teens/early 20s is when teens are moving and decide which of these they want to continue… I hope to start offering adult camps in future.

So many of the symptoms that are being medicated are what people are sensing like isolation or anxiety.

They give back their phones voluntarily


(21:39- 24:25) BREAK
(24:26- 42:20)

PODCAST: Why Kids Can’t Change Until Adults Do with AJ Crabill

Looking at the beautiful intelligence

Anger is just a signal that some boundaries have been crossed

Anger release with women’s group

Anger fully felt gives you clarity

The beautiful intelligence in jealousy

The world of a 3-year-old

Social re-patterning 

Our essence never leaves and we just used our own energy to hold down the parts of ourselves that we didn’t get response for

Intelligence of small beings


(42:21- 57:00)

Real community and real connection

The other thing that people get from social media is destruction

Pushing away, it doesn’t bring us closer to ourselves

The brain is a tool that supports us in thriving 

Brain challenge

The belief and the projection and skipping the steps

The different paths of learning

Each person is a completely unique offering if all the parts of them are invited

What we manifest in the world follows our thoughts

PODCAST: Raising “Solutionaries” by Teaching Skills Instead of Facts with Zoe Weil and Steve Cochrane

“You’ve done hard things before”

Everything that comes up inside of us is lovable…

Website: SleepAwake


(57:01- 57:57) CLOSING