by Anna Heydenrych | Aug 24, 2020 | Life lessons
I’ve known for a while that doing isn’t the thing. It’s not the thing that will transform my life. Yet, I can’t help doing. I am like Martha in the kitchen. Compassionately, Jesus said to her, “You are worried and upset about many...
by Anna Heydenrych | May 25, 2019 | Life lessons
I explored some ways not to measure ourselves in part one of this two-part series on how to measure ourselves. I will now share two ways that I believe can help us weigh our progress and remain aligned with the dreams that we have for our lives. Sometimes we find...
by Anna Heydenrych | May 24, 2019 | Life lessons
We do this. We measure ourselves. Existing in a world that promotes success in so many different shapes and forms, our unit of measure is not fixed. There’s no equation, no text book to know the measure of a man and so we can lose ourselves in this process if...
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.