The Fast Guide to Slow Living
A practical path to clarity and calm using natural design principles
In this eBook, permaculture designer and teacher Anne Price offers the busy professional woman a simple guide out of the hustle trap, realigning with nature's ways to reclaim time and energy for the important things.
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What You Will Learn With This eBook
Anne helps busy people reclaim calm and clarity by intentionally slowing down. Drawing on decades of life experience in home economics, education and permaculture, and a wide view of social and ecological systems, Anne frames slow living not as a retreat or rejection of modern life but as a mindful way to live better within it.
Key themes are:
The fast-life trap
shows how time and 'productivity' pressure drives overconsumption and erodes our wellbeing.
Systems thinking
When we start to appreciate the interconnections, we can start to make simpler, more effective choices that benefit us and the planet.
Practical mindfulness
teaches simple ways you can give yourself permission to slow down and find greater depth in the everyday.
Reconnecting with nature's rhythms
Observing and interacting with the patterns of nature offers unlimited creative possibilities.
Compassion
The gentle shift that moves us from blame and shame to new possibilities.
New measures of success
You can make choices that work for you.
This e-book is for any person who finds themselves caught between the desire to live a more sustainable life and the difficult realities of juggling personal, home, work and community responsibilities.
I have lived in this tension for many years and have explored many ways to escape the fast-life trap.
What I have discovered is that there are timeless principles that can help us find our direction in life and make wiser decisions. Nature herself provides us many clues. While I offer no simplistic, one-size-fits-all answers to our chronic busyness, I can invite you into a gentle conversation to help you find ideas and strategies that will work for you in your situation.
Here's to your clarity and calm,
