Creating a slow and simple life because the rat race steals our joy✌🏽 Slowmad 🌏 | Somatic Healer | Joy Advocate & Freelancer | Home Organiser | Artist🌹 Declutter & decolonise your mind, space and body✨️
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Creating a slow and simple life because the rat race steals our joy✌🏽 Slowmad 🌏 | Somatic Healer | Joy Advocate & Freelancer | Home Organiser | Artist🌹 Declutter & decolonise your mind, space and body✨️
To limit this world's impact on my mind, body and soul. I'm chosing *radical* self care by living outside of the norm. 👉🏽 When I feel rushed or pressured, I'm taking an active stance to say no to the fast life and choosing slow. Slow everything down... 👉🏽 When I feel tension in my chest and the need to keep up... After an innocent conversation or intended pressure from the outside world, which subtly makes you feel like you are behind. I am taking an active stance against grind culture and choosing the simple life through reusing, thrift, olio, repurposing and Acknowledging my made up wants vs my needs... 👉🏽And when my body feels stuck and my mind feels numb, I'm looking at the behaviors learnt and what I'm consuming. How I'm participating in lifestyles intended to depress humanity and imprison us in our own homes with convenience and comfort culture. This last practice is the hardest one, but to be sensual, embodied and feeling good in my skin is where joy lasts... The practice of being intentional within the system and it's impact on your mind body and spirit is a full time job. But a worthwhile one 👌🏽 Instead of fast, chaotic and numb, chose slow, simple and sensual💜🌱✨️ #Slowlife #simplicity #sensuality
You are not sick, the system is sick. I’m tired of individual solutions to systemic problems. I thought we learned the lesson from feminism: to fight patriarchy on an individual level, each woman alone, would have been a dead game. Without coming together, creating a movement, joining forces, and collectively demanding the change needed, we wouldn’t have come far. The core problem is structural, not individual. So why do we treat mental health, stress, and burnout individually? I’m drowning in tips and tricks on how to deal with stress. But if sort of everyone on the planet seems to be stressed, feeling anxious, overwhelmed and more or less burnt out, isn’t it a structural problem? Why blame the individual? We need to go back and look for the root cause. Please, look for the root cause, I’m tired of the quick fixes. Please don’t tell me the system is not the problem, but I’m the problem. How could I possibly be ok when our biosphere is dying, species are going extinct, the ocean is filled with more plastic than fish, there are toxic chemicals in almost all our food, I have microplastic in my blood, and I see kids dying by the thousands from starvation and war. And please don’t ask me to go exercise at ten o’clock in the evening when I’ve just finished the last urgent task of the day, knowing the whole race starts all over again tomorrow at 5.30 am. Look at the world. Look at what we created and tell me to fix my personal stress levels individually. The system is wrong. Not us. We are not sick, the system is sick. What helps is community. To collectively share the pain and from that space ask the questions needed to get to the root cause of where we are. Coming together as humanity and collectively demand and create the change needed.
Creating a slow and simple life because the rat race steals our joy✌🏽 Slowmad 🌏 | Somatic Healer | Joy Advocate & Freelancer | Home Organiser | Artist🌹 Declutter & decolonise your mind, space and body✨️
How many hours of your life are you trading to afford things you don’t need? Last week, I shared a post called "Overconsumption is Keeping You Stuck (and Broke): Our obsession with 'buying' our way out of problems..." I've thought so much about Consumerism vs. Community recently, and writing the article brought to mind a picture I took earlier this year (as below)… "A single leaf working alone provides no shade." – Chuck Page. If you saw my post about Olio • Share More, Waste Less last week, you'll see how much I am living by this psychology. Most of the things I own these days are 2nd-hand! 😅 That’s why I’m excited to share my latest eBook dropping this week: Declutter to Freedom! Want a free copy? Sign up to my newsletter on Beehiv for more content and have it delivered to your inbox... #Minimalism #Decluttering #SlowLiving #IntentionalLiving #Simplicity #Overconsumption
