While I have enjoyed many of your posts this one was most impactful because you addressed imperfection and the challenge of trying to live intentionally amidst the mess of daily life. This felt real. Thank you.
Beautiful. Not waiting for a quiet Sunday morning on vacation to embrace that pace and peace. An exercise I enjoy is to visualize myself going through my regular, messy, non-slow day with that peaceful, paced feeling as my default setting. A practice!
So true 🩷 I was talking about this with my sister last week. You wrote in a way that helped to make things clear. (By the way, I saw myself in this article, and I'm from Brazil, the world is so big and so small at the same time).
This is such thoughtful stuff. Along with the excellent detail, I love the pace and rhythm of your writing. I copied the passage below, then realized it was ALL copy-worthy. After I post this response I’m going back to the top for another read
“…not the kind that gets styled for a story and then abandoned — but the quiet, felt kind. the kind that makes your jaw unclench without noticing. the kind that belongs to you.”
as a fellow seeker of slow living, this resonated with me so much! we’re sold a version of it that can’t necessarily exist in everyday life (thinking of all the gorgeous “slow living”, largely unrealistic TikTok accounts I follow 🥴), & it’s beautiful, but it’s just not real for many of us. I love the reminder that maybe slow living is possible, but perhaps the key is resetting expectations and allowing it to exist next to chaos & noise & mess rather than trying to restructure my life to accommodate it. your article felt like permission to try a different way. thank you!
This is exactly what I needed to read. I absolutely love your take on it, thank you for making living a slow life seem more approachable. After all isn't everything worth doing raw and messy but intentional nonetheless?
A lot of this resonates with me. Similar motivations pushed me to explore what I actually need... for myself. I wrote a piece about it, where each morning I asked myself: "what's the one thing I can do for myself that will make my day?". A week of doing this has been a bit of a game-changer. Here's the piece, I'd love to hear your thoughts: https://substack.com/home/post/p-164413875
I loved this piece, I realise I have (with privilege) built a life towards slowness.
It’s still hectic and chaotic, mind you, crumbs under my feet as I chop tomatoes in tiny bits for dinner, children running around, the dishwasher half empty and yoghurt spilling in the fridge. But the window is open and I can hear the birds, I have let go of « dinner has to be ready by x time » and that my make up needs to be on point.
I have created slowness where I needed it the most and whenever things go crazy and I need to slow down I know where I can return, I can slow down time because I notice the shadow of a plant in the sun rat instead of dwelling on the scattered toys.
It’s not perfect, not constant, a lot of it not aesthetic but it feels like life 🧡
This hits right home. The world can be a chaotic place to navigate, and most often we forget that the whole point of life is to maybe just stop for a second and feel it?
Your words and soothing, encouraging and a much needed reminder to not delay slowing down, rather find moments in between the chaos to slow down.
I love this. I think the disparity between slow living as portrayed on social media and real life is even more wide when you're a parent because the former is created by youngsters that are not in that season of life yet.
Even when taking seasons of life and parenting out of the equation, what is portrayed on our social media feeds are performances. Entertainment. Definitely not real life.
Slow living as how you prescribed it in this piece, is how it becomes doable.
What you’ve written awakens a quiet truth: slowness is not an escape from life, but a conscious return to it. In a world that measures worth by output, choosing to slow down becomes an act of survival—and gentleness, no less brave than resilience. Thank you for this honest breath.🎐
While I have enjoyed many of your posts this one was most impactful because you addressed imperfection and the challenge of trying to live intentionally amidst the mess of daily life. This felt real. Thank you.
Beautiful. Not waiting for a quiet Sunday morning on vacation to embrace that pace and peace. An exercise I enjoy is to visualize myself going through my regular, messy, non-slow day with that peaceful, paced feeling as my default setting. A practice!
So true 🩷 I was talking about this with my sister last week. You wrote in a way that helped to make things clear. (By the way, I saw myself in this article, and I'm from Brazil, the world is so big and so small at the same time).
This is such thoughtful stuff. Along with the excellent detail, I love the pace and rhythm of your writing. I copied the passage below, then realized it was ALL copy-worthy. After I post this response I’m going back to the top for another read
“…not the kind that gets styled for a story and then abandoned — but the quiet, felt kind. the kind that makes your jaw unclench without noticing. the kind that belongs to you.”
as a fellow seeker of slow living, this resonated with me so much! we’re sold a version of it that can’t necessarily exist in everyday life (thinking of all the gorgeous “slow living”, largely unrealistic TikTok accounts I follow 🥴), & it’s beautiful, but it’s just not real for many of us. I love the reminder that maybe slow living is possible, but perhaps the key is resetting expectations and allowing it to exist next to chaos & noise & mess rather than trying to restructure my life to accommodate it. your article felt like permission to try a different way. thank you!
This is exactly what I needed to read. I absolutely love your take on it, thank you for making living a slow life seem more approachable. After all isn't everything worth doing raw and messy but intentional nonetheless?
You are a very good at time management , i realize it because your are marred and you have a one
child and you mange your work from home .
i really like this
A lot of this resonates with me. Similar motivations pushed me to explore what I actually need... for myself. I wrote a piece about it, where each morning I asked myself: "what's the one thing I can do for myself that will make my day?". A week of doing this has been a bit of a game-changer. Here's the piece, I'd love to hear your thoughts: https://substack.com/home/post/p-164413875
Oh this was balm to my soul to read
Exactly! It has to come from the inside out.
Slow living and balance is really what our world needs 🤍
I loved this piece, I realise I have (with privilege) built a life towards slowness.
It’s still hectic and chaotic, mind you, crumbs under my feet as I chop tomatoes in tiny bits for dinner, children running around, the dishwasher half empty and yoghurt spilling in the fridge. But the window is open and I can hear the birds, I have let go of « dinner has to be ready by x time » and that my make up needs to be on point.
I have created slowness where I needed it the most and whenever things go crazy and I need to slow down I know where I can return, I can slow down time because I notice the shadow of a plant in the sun rat instead of dwelling on the scattered toys.
It’s not perfect, not constant, a lot of it not aesthetic but it feels like life 🧡
This hits right home. The world can be a chaotic place to navigate, and most often we forget that the whole point of life is to maybe just stop for a second and feel it?
Your words and soothing, encouraging and a much needed reminder to not delay slowing down, rather find moments in between the chaos to slow down.
I love this. I think the disparity between slow living as portrayed on social media and real life is even more wide when you're a parent because the former is created by youngsters that are not in that season of life yet.
Even when taking seasons of life and parenting out of the equation, what is portrayed on our social media feeds are performances. Entertainment. Definitely not real life.
Slow living as how you prescribed it in this piece, is how it becomes doable.
you never cease to amaze me. I am always looking forward to your next post. I LOVE your work.
What you’ve written awakens a quiet truth: slowness is not an escape from life, but a conscious return to it. In a world that measures worth by output, choosing to slow down becomes an act of survival—and gentleness, no less brave than resilience. Thank you for this honest breath.🎐