Slow living

Date It hit me somewhere between the oat milk and the probiotic yoghurts, just how many variations of “fix yourself” we’ve been sold. I stood there trying to remember what I came for, blinking through a brain fog that had lasted a year, maybe more. I picked up cheese. Not because I wanted it, but

Date There’s a moment you’ve probably lived through:You open your laptop to send one email. Forty minutes later, you’ve answered two WhatsApps, Googled a skin rash, checked the weather, and can’t remember what you were doing. This isn’t stress.This is overstimulation. And it isn’t something your mindset can out-muscle. We’ve built a world that’s high

Date You close your laptop and wonder, “Where did the day go?” You feel drained, tired of being tired, but what did you actually do? Here are five sneaky ways your attention slips away—and how to reclaim it. 1. The Momentum Trap You race through tabs, emails, feeds, always moving, never arriving. Motion can feel

Date Survival mode is something we all fall into at some point. It’s that state where everything feels like a crisis, where we’re constantly on high alert while navigating through stress and uncertainty. We might not even realize we’re there because it becomes the default setting, with our mind racing and body tense as we

Date Back in my student days, I took a job selling insurance. On paper, it seemed straightforward—make calls, sell policies, repeat. But the reality was far more challenging. For every policy I sold, there were countless rejections. Each “no” was like a tiny dagger, a hit to my confidence. But something unexpected happened. I started