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Opting out is often presented as the answer isn’t it? The way back to yourself or the antidote to burnout. Or even the thing that will finally make life feel manageable again.


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Enoughness is often spoken about as if it’s something you can simply decide, almost as if there is a simple switch you can and flip or some kind of thought that you can just install into your brain, and then poof everything suddenly settles down.
It’s almost as if it’s saying that the discomfort we feel in our lives is just a misunderstanding that can be corrected with the right perspective, that if you could just think differently, feel differently, want differently… then what you have would finally feel like enough.



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Living small is rarely framed as a finished decision in our society is it? It’s usually spoken about as a phase, a ‘starter home or a stepping stone. Maybe a place you pass through on the way to something bigger, better, more impressive. A “starter home”, as if your real life is waiting elsewhere. But sometimes, the place you thought was temporary becomes the place where your life actually happens.


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There’s a version of slow living that lives almost entirely online, I am sure you know the one, the one that is purely an aesthetic. It is quiet, spacious and lives inside sunlit kitchens, long morning and it suggests to us mere mortals that being present is something we can achieve easily and life uniterrupted is just the norm.


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There is a version of slowing down that doesn’t ask you to erase your life in order to deserve relief and today. I want to share with you all about what slow living can truly look like, because I think as a phrase and a meaning it’s been co-opted in place of the aesthetic version that fills our social media feeds.
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