My Self Reliance Podcast
Welcome to the Cabin. I’m Shawn James, the host of the My Self Reliance podcast and YouTube channel.
This is the story of how I am withdrawing from modern society to pursue a free, natural, healthy, meaningful and satisfying life and how you can too. Join me as I build an off grid homestead in the wilderness complete with log cabins, an outdoor kitchen, a wood-fired sauna, lumber mill, vegetable garden, fruit orchard, food forest and haven for wildlife.
My Self Reliance Podcast
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035 Why Modern Life Keeps You Tired And Wired
That “not quite anxious, not quite depressed” feeling can be a constant chemical pressure in the background and it has a name: cortisol that never fully comes down. From the cabin, I talk through what it feels like to live in that low hum for y...
034 There Is No Right Time So Begin Today
The “right time” never shows up, and waiting for it can be one of the most expensive habits we carry. From the cabin, I talk through how procrastination and paralysis by analysis disguise themselves as responsibility, and why “being careful” ca...
033 The Hidden Cost Of Convenience
Convenience feels like a clean win until you notice what you traded away to get it. From my cabin in Northern Ontario, I dig into the real price nobody prints on the label: the slow loss of competence, the erosion of confidence, and the kind of...
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