One of my key goals for the new year is to consume less. Especially when it comes to consuming stuff / things / clothes. Both as an effort to live more environmentally friendly as well as to save money and spend it more wisely. Over the last few years, I’ve become much more conscious of…
Category: Conscious living
Setting goals rather than rules for the new year
A new year means different things to all of us. Some may feel that time moves too quickly and some see it as the most inspiring moment to start over. However you feel about it, reflecting on the year that’s passed as a means to look forward to the next one, is most definitely a…
Looking back at a year of slower living
I knew that 2018 would be a year of figuring things out. I had made some huge changes in 2017 moving back to Sweden after 13 years in London so 2018 was going to have to be a year of settling in. Finding my place. Trying to figure things out. I set myself a few…
6 books I’ve enjoyed in 2018
A year of great and interesting learnings. A year of worrying politics and fake news. But a year of insights that will most definitely lead to action, as a momentum is building around a more conscious and sustainable way of living. These insights have come from the news, from individuals and people on Instagram, and…
Less Christmas stress and more holiday joy
It’s that time of the year again. Filled with joy and cosy gatherings of friends and family, parties, loads of good food and all those things that come with Christmas. But Christmas is also filled with stress and anxiety for many because of pressure to be cheerful all the time, to buy loads of things…
The season of commercialised holidays is here
As the autumn darkness hits us, we’re also hit by a stream of (I would argue) questionable and very much commercialised holidays. I remember the day when the Christmas gear-up started at the first of Advent, as shops in my town centre revealed the Christmas display in their shop windows. It was of course to…
Unplug and unwind with less screen time
I wake up, I check my phone. I sit down for breakfast and scroll through news whilst eating. I then head off for work, where I spend most of the day in front of a screen. In the evening, I keep checking my phone, do some extra work on my laptop, whilst watching TV. Sounds…
The blame-the-other mentality of our times
The state of the world is on one hand better than ever as living standards are going up across the world. But at the same time, what we see in media is often much more bleak, with a lot of fear, hate and anger coming across. It’s coming from people in power (read Trump) and…
My continuing conscious journey
I started this blog as something to base my own motivation for embracing a more conscious lifestyle on. Being conscious means being mindful of the effects our decisions have, but being conscious also means being aware of what’s out there, learning new things, changing habits, keeping up-to-date with new developments, embracing a different approach –…
Embracing slow living to achieve self care
In today’s busy world where we’re supposed to have active and fulfilling lives, and where we’re following unachievable lifestyles on social media – is even the idea of self care stressing us out? The idea of taking time for ourselves to do nothing when there’s a million other things we could / should be doing,…