What does a hippopotamus have to teach us about sovereignty, personal boundaries — and farting?

Quite a lot, apparently.

In this episode of the Afraid to Fart podcast, Marion Bevington explores what it really means to be autonomous and sovereign: to make your own decisions, know what is actually your territory, and recognise where your territory ends.

Along the way, we enter Marion's meat suit, meat soup and meat stew — her wonderfully irreverent way of exploring the body, emotional metabolisation, learned patterning and the unseen dynamics between people.

There's also the story of her friend's ex-husband, sitting on his throne and proudly unleashing his toxic cloud over everyone else. Because there's a difference between being sovereign in your own space and deliberately invading somebody else's.

And then comes the hippopotamus.

The Sovereign Autonomous Hippopotamus has a surprisingly useful lesson: find the space that's available to you, make it yours, and don't take anybody else's.

But just when you think we've established exactly what “you” means, Marion takes the conversation one step deeper — into identity.

If you're spiritually curious, fascinated by the body, questioning old conditioning, or simply wondering how farting became such a complicated business, this episode may make you look at your own territory rather differently.

Find your space. Make it yours. Don't take anybody else's.

And just when you think you've worked out who you are, Marion turns the whole thing inside out with one final question:

Who exactly is the “me” that I'm supposed to be sovereign over?

That question leads directly into Episode 4 — conditioning.

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