Johanna DeBiase

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Johanna DeBiase

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01/11/2026

Snow finally came to the Mesa. The lack of precipitation this winter (across the country, I heard) is beyond disconcerting. When I moved here just 20 years ago, winters were consistently colder and snowier. It's weird to be warm in the winter. If this is happening in such a short time, what is our trajectory? How do we prepare?

01/06/2026

20 months later we are finally moved into the extension. There are bits that will need to wait until spring to complete like the greenhouse bed and exterior but we're in the room! We went from a tiny home to a regular sized home. I now have a full size kitchen with a dining table and don't have to eat on the couch anymore! This extension was built with only our muscles and willingness to learn step by step. It is a testament to what can be done when you put your will into something. And it took a lot of heart. Sometimes I was so stressed with all that had to be done and we had to think of only the next step. It's hard to believe it's actually real. It feels amazing. Eric has requested no more house projects for a while. Fair.

12/31/2025

This year I went all in on my Substack that I write with my husband I didn't set a resolution to do so, but I felt compelled each and every week to write about living off grid, sustainability, slow living, collapse, nature connections, ritual, localism, minimalism and anti-consumerism. It's been like a calling to put my gift for gab into a subject I'm passionate about, living in a reciprocal relationship with the Earth. I want everyone to know that there is a different way. You don't have to grind your way into retirement. You don't have to buy more or achieve more to be happier. Actually, the opposite is true. Less is more.

Anyway, I plan to continue my consistency in 2026 and keep writing what I know from my life experiences doing my best to live a full and loving life with a small footprint. I expect 2026 will be filled with inspiration and fodder for new newsletters. I hope you might consider joining us if you haven't already and subscribe at www.OurUncertainFuture.com
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12/19/2025

Here are a multitude of ways that you can ritualize the change of seasons including, creating an altar, harnessing your creativity with a writing class, practicing a ceremony, listening to season-inspired music, yoga nidra and reading insights. I hope at least one of these things inspires you.

Link in bio or at OurUncertainFuture.com

12/07/2025

This week, we are so grateful that Johanna (yes, same name, different person) shared her writing with us on rest and ways to rest during this often hectic time of year. For more of her writing, visit her beautiful Substack LIVING REST and subscribe.

When I connected with Stockholm-based yoga teacher and energy healer Johanna Andersson, I was excited to find someone who advocated for rest.

In the northern hemisphere as the living world around us turns inward and seeks restful hibernation and dark quietude, humans are running around shopping and planning events. There is an obvious disconnect.

Link to Our Uncertain Future in bio to read

11/28/2025

Everyday I am grateful for this amazing planet I get to live this lifetime on. Her mountains, oceans, forests, canyons, lakes, rivers, plant medicine, deserts, all the living beings I share this place with. Including the incredible diversity of animals, especially the ones I am closest to, my friends and family. Grateful for the home Earth helped me build. Grateful for my body Earth helped create. Grateful for the way Earth feeds my body, my heart, my joy, my love. I am nothing without her, The Great Mother. No amount of gratitude can honor her but I'll do my best everyday to try.

11/26/2025

Because it's not that simple. How do we reconcile the spirit of Thanksgiving--friends, family, gratitude, good food, harvest meal-- with the historical context--colonization, genocide, environmental impact? I wrote about how I struggle with this tension and my attempts to resolve it in the latest Substack newsletter at Our Uncertain Future. Link in bio.

11/24/2025

What stories does your body hold and long to tell? What somatic messages are waiting to be revealed within you? Movement is an underutilized creative portal. Writing from the body instead of the head frees us from blocks that often get in the way of our true voice. In this four-week series, we will blend gentle yoga and mindful journaling, designed to help you access creative flow through your body and your pen. Each session begins with setting an intention through breath and guided meditation followed by yoga postures sequenced to align with the class theme. After, we will take time for prompted free writing and end with a long relaxation in savasana for integration. Suitable for all levels with no experience in yoga or writing required. Reconnect with embodied wisdom and unlock your creativity in a welcoming space. Leave feeling inspired, restored and deeply attuned.

$75 for the entire series. Must register in advance and spots are limited. Begins Sunday, January 4th.

Johanna DeBiase is a writer and yoga instructor living in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of the fabulist novella Mama and the Hungry Hole (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015) and the poetry chapbook Gestation (Finishing Line Press, 2020). With an MFA in Creative Writing, she has taught writing for over two decades to people across the country, including at the Taos Writers Conference. She has guided yoga classes for over ten years, currently at Aurafitness and Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs.

11/21/2025

At Our Uncertain Future, we write about our lifestyle off the grid to show people there is another way. We bought our off-grid fixer upper in cash and paid it off within a couple of years. Buying cheap land and putting an off-grid tiny home and some solar panels on it is one way to lower your housing costs and free up your life. But this isn’t the only way. In fact, you can quit your job right now and live for free.

If you feel trapped in a job you hate but don't know how to get out of it in this economy and pay your high rent, I have a few solutions for you.

Read more at OurUncertainFuture.com link in bio

11/19/2025

If this title peaked your interest, you may be ready to leave the rat race behind. In this failing economy many people feel pressure to stay in jobs they hate. You can go off grid like we did, which offers us all kinds of new freedoms to live on our own terms. Or you can check out this list of 16 other ways to live for free or a nominal fee in exchange for work. Sometimes they include meals or travel. Sometimes you just can go as a couple or bring your family.

Creating this list really excited me, just dreaming of all the possibilities out there.

Link in bio, story, at OurUncertainFuture.com

11/14/2025

In May of 2024, we broke ground on our greenhouse extension with two shovels and two pairs of hands. Little did we know then the extent to which this project would stretch us. Over a year and a half later, we still are not done. I have learned to surrender and enjoy the process. I’m sure in the coming months we will have even more to share about this journey but for now, I want to let you in on one of my favorite parts of the entire process, clay plastering.

Our most recent newsletter is a 15-minute video guide to clay plaster on strawbale walls, which represents two months of work and might be interesting to watch for anyone curious about earth building.

Link in bio or OurUncertainFuture.com

11/13/2025

We recommend clay plastering highly. Five out of five stars. It’s a fun and beautiful process without any toxic chemicals. It’s free and it looks great when it’s done. Have a look for yourself at our video. It’s not a fully comprehensive guide, but it will give you a good idea on how to get started. We made a lot of mistakes along the way and learned a lot. Let us know if you try it and how it went.

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Taos, NM
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Bio: Johanna DeBiase is the author of Mama & the Hungry Hole (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015). She writes from New Mexico where she is spellbound by the energy vortex of Taos Mountain. Originally from New York, she earned her BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bard College and her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her creative work—including short stories, flash fiction and video poems— has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Portland Review, Atticus Review, Monkeybicycle, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Convergence and Prick of the Spindle, among others. When she is not writing, she teaches yoga, produces the podcast Yoga for Writing, sells vintage clothing, travels the world and cooks vegetarian food for her daughter and husband.

Artist Statement: A lifelong feminist, I write about women and their role in society. Women straddle the line between vulnerable and strong. We are smaller, make less money and have less power than men, but we give birth, raise children and embody beauty and sexual influence. This balance can often be difficult to uphold, and women end up negotiating with reality in various ways, both positive and negative. As a result, my writing is often surreal, focusing on dreams and myths, where we go to work through life’s mysteries.

I also write about nature, though I don’t think this subject is so different from that of women. Nature is the feminine/yin aspect of our world. Women and nature have many parallels in the way they are devalued and revered simultaneously. While my writing evokes a keen sense-of-place, my substories tend to stress current environmental issues. Organically, humans and the earth are mutually integrated, though we often forget our codependency. As the decimation of our planet continues irresponsibly in full force, I seek to draw out and reveal this interconnectedness in my work.