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The Anti-consumerist Druid: How I Beat My Shopping Addiction Through Connection With Nature

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Many of us are coming to terms with the devastating global effects of overconsumption, and for me the desire to quit shopping has led me to explore Paganism, and then to Druidry! This is not a book about Druidry. This is a book about how I stopped overconsumption consuming me, and on that journey discovered a connection with nature that led to me becoming a student of Druidry, and about how those beliefs and practices helped me to rebuild a more authentic, creative, enchanted life.

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ISBN-13:	9781789045192
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	12/01/2022
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.31(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Katrina Townsend is becoming the anarchist hedge Druid she was born to be, exchanging shopping addiction for green and simple living, creativity and connection with nature. Living in Andover, England, she is the mother of one small Spud and married to a Welsh Viking.

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

Part I Come for the Shopaholism… 5

Chapter 1 Identity Crisis 7

Chapter 2 The Consumer Trap 18

Chapter 3 Been There, Done That… 29

Chapter 4 How Extinction Rebellion Stole Christmas 41

Chapter 5 Lockdown 51

Chapter 6 Authenticity 59

Chapter 7 The Year of Being Myself 67

Part II …Stay for the Druidry 71

Chapter 8 The Weird, the Wild and the Woo-Woo 73

Chapter 9 Connections 90

Chapter 10 Brigid 101

Chapter 11 The Good Neighbours 112

Chapter 12 #Blessed 124

Conclusion 135

About the Author 139

Notes 140

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09/26/2022
This introspective debut from Katrina, Consumed blogger Townsend details how her determination to stop “overshopping” led her to druidism. She tells of her efforts as a teen and young adult to “buy myself a sense of identity” and emulate the women she saw in magazines, leading her to make purchases she couldn’t afford. She decided to rein in her spending through a self-imposed “shopping ban” and by following the advice of Marie Kondo. Then a documentary from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion caused her to consider how her “frivolous” spending on fast fashion and disposable trinkets increased waste and contributed to climate change, setting Townsend on a path toward anticonsumerism. Her emerging environmentalism spurred her to revisit paganism, which she had dabbled in as a teenager, and she came to enjoy the connection it offers with nature. She gravitated toward the druid tradition because of its connection to animism and conviction that everything natural is sacred. Townsend’s trajectory from skeptic to believer makes this well suited for readers who might not be sold on paganism (she discusses her fear of “being too woo-woo”), and her discussion of how her druidism intersects with sustainable causes illustrates what the tradition has to offer modern practitioners. The result is a pensive pagan outing that will appeal to nonbelievers. (Dec.)

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