Ep.04 with Anca Damerell - My Body Tells Me a Different Story
What happens when a woman who has spent her career mapping the most complex systems in the world realizes she is now learning to read her own ?
Anca Damerell opens a conversation about what gets lost when women move from the farm to the institution, from the freedom of climbing trees and reaching for fruit to a life organized around productivity, caregiving, and the quiet suppression of what the body knows. We move through the women who came before her and the wings and constraints they carried. Through a body dismissed twice by specialists, still telling its own story. Through the moment care met the machine, when a human request for menopause support returned as administrative language. Through the question that stayed with her: what would it mean if love were not decorative in our institutions, but foundational.
Storykeeper: Anca Damerell is a Director at Unearthodox, an organization navigating complex nature-society challenges by examining root problems. She is a published researcher, systems thinker, and a woman at the beginning of her own embodied journey.
Connect with Anca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anca-damerell
Resources mentioned:
- Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
- Bayo Akomolafe, The Emergence Network
- Anca Damerell, projects led and written forwards:
- Voices of Regeneration: Cycles of Hope
- Nurturing innovation
- The Anthology on regenerative futures
(0:00) Welcome (5:25) The women who came before — wings and constraints (22:37) From the farm to the institution — how the body got lost (32:40) What if these experiences are signals, not disruptions (41:45) When care meets the machine (54:53) The ingredients are already here
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Hosted by Anna Teresa
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