by Anna Heydenrych | May 23, 2019 | interviews
I first came across Marysol through my father. If I remember correctly, he had some kind of interaction with her father and both of them were showing off to each other about their daughters (as dads do). And so my dad came back and told me about the amazing Marysol...
by Anna Heydenrych | May 22, 2019 | Our story
I had a couple of other topic ideas lined up for today, my third day of ‘a blog a day for seven days’. But instead I decided to go with a fun one and write about why we choose to live in the so called ‘armpit’ of South Africa’. It was...
by Anna Heydenrych | May 21, 2019 | Life lessons
What is slow living? It’s difficult to define slow living in words. It’s not the words themselves that introduce a challenge, it’s quite easy to find the ones that align with the concept of slow. Intentional, purposeful, mindful, long-term,...
by Anna Heydenrych | May 13, 2019 | Life lessons
I do believe that we all harbour personal dreams. Some of us have pursued these and are living our dreams. Most of us are looking at some of us and feeling sorry for ourselves because we think that some of us are most of us. We wonder how everyone else has managed...
by Anna Heydenrych | Oct 2, 2018 | Life lessons
I’m pushing on towards my dream life, the one where I have what I want. But do I want what I have? This day, this one day that I will never have again. This day with it’s boring, with it’s work and it’s thinking about what else it could be if...
We want to live a slow life. A life of connection and simplicity. A life that allows us the space to assess what we really want to be spending our time and resources on. And so here we are, the Slow Down Family, working on slowing down more. We are figuring out how to apply this to all areas of our life, and how to do it while raising small children and pursing our dreams.
Follow our journey here as we share our experiences and tips on how to minimise and create space in our lives for the things that we really want to keep.