Have you read How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell? I had to look at it when, last Sunday at 6:30pm, I found out that my 3 kids would not be going to school the following morning. I HAVE SO MANY RESOLUTIONS TO ACCOMPLISH!!! Was replaced with the instant re-centering joy of IF I PAY ATTENTION, EVERYTHING IS WONDROUS. I don't need busyness and productivity to define my self worth; I need only to be quiet and focus on what's happening in front of me. Nothing I could buy or achieve would replace the delight in paying attention. Thank you for the sanity as always :)
The works cited is a curriculum unto itself. When I read it, as when I read your essays, I felt such relief. Like: Right! I don't have to feel so terrified/ frazzled and overwhelmed all the time. I can take my attention and my humanness back. Vive la resistance!!
Soooo aggravating and sad to read how Hudson (and so many others!) have conflated our need for slowness and presence with a need to buy things. Like, this is mindfulness? You can legit sit on the floor or lay down for ten minutes and do a body scan and experience the same (or more) benefits. And also, putting stuff on your skin in the hopes that it will stay a certain way is not self-care but aggression! Thank you for being a voice of reason.
I do wonder when I got programmed to think that rituals needed to involve products! This made me think of when I moved to Australia at the age of 11, back in my home country, you didn't need any products or other luxuries to feel happy and content. A bit to dissect here on my end!
So well written, really love everything I read on here. Thank you Jessica - you have truly pulled me out of my misery I didn't even know I was in!!!
Yesss dissect away! The process of uncovering your conditioning and de-conditioning is only gets more fascinating the deeper you dive. Thank you so much for being here and sharing that xx
Loved every word of this. Thank you. Keeping this post in my inbox so I can read it again and again. (This one really hit home for me!) Also, I couldn't resist clicking the link to the Secure Attachment Serum and read the description... "developed with mental health experts"???? WTF WHY?!!
Thank you, that makes me so happy to hear! And yeah... that product... I don't KNOW hahaha. It's obviously well-intentioned but so, so far off the mark??
Hahaha omg, I was working for the Kardashian-Jenner Apps when that video was filmed and released and our team got in sooooo much shit for letting that quote go public 😭
Have you read How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell? I had to look at it when, last Sunday at 6:30pm, I found out that my 3 kids would not be going to school the following morning. I HAVE SO MANY RESOLUTIONS TO ACCOMPLISH!!! Was replaced with the instant re-centering joy of IF I PAY ATTENTION, EVERYTHING IS WONDROUS. I don't need busyness and productivity to define my self worth; I need only to be quiet and focus on what's happening in front of me. Nothing I could buy or achieve would replace the delight in paying attention. Thank you for the sanity as always :)
YES!! I'm in the middle of it right now and loving it.
The works cited is a curriculum unto itself. When I read it, as when I read your essays, I felt such relief. Like: Right! I don't have to feel so terrified/ frazzled and overwhelmed all the time. I can take my attention and my humanness back. Vive la resistance!!
Soooo aggravating and sad to read how Hudson (and so many others!) have conflated our need for slowness and presence with a need to buy things. Like, this is mindfulness? You can legit sit on the floor or lay down for ten minutes and do a body scan and experience the same (or more) benefits. And also, putting stuff on your skin in the hopes that it will stay a certain way is not self-care but aggression! Thank you for being a voice of reason.
YES, YES, YES. "Not self-care but aggression" — could not agree more!!
I do wonder when I got programmed to think that rituals needed to involve products! This made me think of when I moved to Australia at the age of 11, back in my home country, you didn't need any products or other luxuries to feel happy and content. A bit to dissect here on my end!
So well written, really love everything I read on here. Thank you Jessica - you have truly pulled me out of my misery I didn't even know I was in!!!
Yesss dissect away! The process of uncovering your conditioning and de-conditioning is only gets more fascinating the deeper you dive. Thank you so much for being here and sharing that xx
I wouldn’t buy crap from any celebrity.
I bought a Kylie Lip Kit back in the day... but I've since learned my lesson.
Loved every word of this. Thank you. Keeping this post in my inbox so I can read it again and again. (This one really hit home for me!) Also, I couldn't resist clicking the link to the Secure Attachment Serum and read the description... "developed with mental health experts"???? WTF WHY?!!
Thank you, that makes me so happy to hear! And yeah... that product... I don't KNOW hahaha. It's obviously well-intentioned but so, so far off the mark??
That quote about doing things reminded me of Kylie Jenner saying "This is the year of realizing stuff"
Hahaha omg, I was working for the Kardashian-Jenner Apps when that video was filmed and released and our team got in sooooo much shit for letting that quote go public 😭
Hey, I mean on the other hand you could say it gained her extra clout, no? No publicity is bad publicity? Or is that statement out now?