The Art of Slow Living: Embracing Peace and Balance in a Fast-Paced World

In our bustling modern world, where time seems to slip through our fingers, it's no surprise that the pace of life has quickened by 10% since the mid-nineties. Amidst the flurry of responsibilities, from providing for our families to striving for success in our professional lives, we often find ourselves overwhelmed, stressed, and disconnected from our inner selves and those around us. The rise in stress-induced mental illnesses, such as burnout, anxiety, and depression, only reinforces the notion that this collective sense of urgency is taking a toll on our well-being.

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Let's Talk About Acceptance

In today’s society we are constantly fed language that glorifies our efforts to cancel out anything that interferes with our positivity. The truth is, everyone experiences stress and negative thoughts/ feelings at times, and the more we resist, ignore and push them away, the more often they push back harder demanding our attention.

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Lauren Wallis
Embracing Change

Change is one of those ambiguous human experiences that can bring up such a contrasting range of emotions within us. Change can be both beautiful or painful, exciting or scary, frustrating or empowering. This makes the concept of embracing change even more elusive and unusual. Why would we want to embrace something that causes us discomfort?

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Lauren Wallis
Mindfulness through R.A.I.N. - Part 1

Sitting with emotions can be difficult, especially if they are heavy or uncomfortable negative emotions. We can also find ourselves slipping into a habit of sitting in them too long or ruminating. It’s important to remember our emotions are a response to something.

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Lauren Wallis
How to separate work from leisure during COVID-19

Put your hand up if the COVID-19 restrictions mean you’re now working from home!

If we were all in the same room, a staggering number of you would have your hands up right now.

Find strategies to separate work from leisure to maintain mental wellness.

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Using Marie Kondo’s Method to Redesign Your Career

It’s not just a method about folding, it’s about identifying priorities and putting intentional effort into things that bring us joy. “The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”

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Minimize the Chaos (Be Merry and Bright)

I’m sitting in a coffee shop right now, with a warm cozy scarf, lemon tea and the Charlie Brown Christmas album playing on my headphones. While this is a perfect setup, we all know that the holidays aren’t always as cozy and calm as this. In fact, they can often be hectic, exhausting, painful and lonely.

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Constructing a Unique, Meaningful Blueprint of Your Future

Don’t ever give up if this is something you crave and you haven’t quite found it. Sometimes it takes time, and experience in other fields. It will likely take some exploration, and getting up close and personal with who you are and what you really want out of life.

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