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    [Repost] FAR OUT #33 ~ Going through life's thresholds with Danny van Leeuwen

    enJuly 28, 2021
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    About this Episode

    Listen and explore:

    • The importance of holding space and being there when others cross thresholds.
    • The way Danny and his family chose a back to the land life
    • "You've come a long way buddy": Danny's Men's Lib group
    • What life on land looked like: the financial situation, growing food and slaughtering chickens, the toilet situation
    • What homeschooling looked like for them and how his kids are doing these days
    • Why they left the land?
    • Danny's career moving from individual health to organizational health
    • Traveling together towards best health
    • Learning what works for your health as an experiment
    • How to manage manageable stress?
    • Mike, Danny's son who passed away from metastatic melanoma at 26
    • We expect too much from the health care system
    • How Danny became an activist
    • How young and old together can make the world progress
    • Living with multiple sclerosis

    Mentioned on this episode:

    Danny's Blog and Podcast: https://www.health-hats.com/new-health-hats-blog/

    Danny on LinkedIn

    Danny on the Back2Basics podcast with Leticia Latino

    The blog posts we mentioned:

    Episode 1 of Health Hats podcast about Mike, Danny's son who died at age 26 on November 18, 2002, of metastatic melanoma.

    Crossing Thresholds

    Learning What Works

    Adjusting to new chronic illness

    Setting Personal Health Goals

    Eureka! Triggers and Signals

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    Pictured: Danny and his family during their back to the land hippie days in the 70s.

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
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