Because learning to love ourselves, truly, madly, deeply, can only begin when we truly meet ourselves as we are in the present moment. Not who we were when we were small, not who society tells us we must be and not who we wish we could be, but who we are, right now.
Oof. OOF. What a year. There’s so much swirling around in my brain and my heart and I’m not sure where to start. I always say that, don’t I (and hey look, I’m a poet and I don’t even know it). I’ve had many
Your challenge this week? To pick up one piece of litter and put it in the bin. That’s it. Hey look, I told you that these challenges really wouldn’t be hard. Yet I bet lots of you reading this won’t do it. And I can’t even
I’m going to be real with you. It’s not been the easiest to love where I live recently. My life has been a bit of a whirlwind over the last two months. There’s stuff I want to share but don’t feel it’s fair to, so
Born from a collective desire to find some relief from the pace of modern life, the first Slow Down Club is simply a space to reflect and to imagine together. A co-creation of what life might be like with a little more ease, a little more peace, a little less pace.
Hi folks, My name is Olivia Stamp and if you're receiving this email it's because you at one time or another signed up to my Substack 'Unravelling Together: Reimagining through Crisis'. The good news is that we did it. We unravelled and now all
This one has been a long time coming but now that I’m writing, it’s hard to know where to begin. See, I’m a millennial who got Instagram in the final year of university: that heady time where the structure of the obvious next step is taken away
On the art of just getting started
On rediscovering curiosity and wonder in our own back gardens.
Or, reflections on a 31st birthday
Or, why Wicked has a lot to teach us
Or why we need to use the next 19 years very wisely.
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Or: on upgrading from cold showers to winter sea swims
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A life-changing trip and conversation with Audrey Tang
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It's unrelenting analogies and puns from here on out
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Or, why I think that the idea of a "job" isn't fit for solving the problems we need to solve.
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Or: why I haven't written anything in ages
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“External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “...the brain is a ‘prediction machine’, and … what we see, hear, and feel is nothing more than the brain’s ‘best guess’ of the causes of its sensory inputs.
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Reimagining through crisis